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Ghana has passed a new bill that would make it a crime for people to identify as LGBTQ. An LGBTQ community member wearing a rainbow flag. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images) Under the bill, people who identify as LGBTQ could face up to 3 years in prison. Anyone who promotes, supports or funds LGBTQ activities can be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. An LGBT activists arrive to attend a court hearing.

A 2017 British skit using satire to expose the unjust ways authorities treat rape victims is going viral online after a court in the UK allowed three teenage boys who gang raped two teenage girls to walk free. British comedian Tracey Ullman originally created “Mugged” in 2017 in response to a major controversy involving a judge who at that time said women’s “disinhibited behavior” or being intoxicated was the reason they were raped by men.

Three teenage boys in the UK who gang raped two girls, filmed it and uploaded it online, were given no prison sentence, sparking widespread outrage. Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images The three boys, two aged 14 and one aged 13 at the time, gang raped two girls aged 15 and 14 in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in November 2024 and January 2025.

The pregnant woman who was hit and dragged on the floor by Dutch police at an asylum seekers' center in the Netherlands, sparking outrage across Europe, has given birth. The incident took place on the evening of May 19 at the COA asylum seekers' center (AZC) on Kampweg in Zeist, located near Utrecht, but footage of the confrontation only began circulating widely on May 30. The videos showed an officer pushing the woman, causing her to fall backwards onto the floor.

world — 2 min read What does co-leadership with girls and Global South feminists look like? In an interview with Almost at the Women Deliver 2026 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, Director for Collective Action at Women Deliver, Julia Fan shared what girls and women can achieve when they have stronger support systems and why it is crucial to amplify voices from the Global South on the international stage.

world — 4 min read Pope Leo XIV has issued a historic apology for the role the Vatican played in authorizing the enslavement of millions of people. In the 15th century, a series of official papal orders, known as papal bulls, gave Portugal and Spain explicit permission to seize land and enslave people across Africa and the Americas.

world — 3 min read Israel's military has seized Lebanon’s historic Beaufort Castle, a medieval hilltop fortress in southern Lebanon, marking Israel’s deepest push into the country since 2000. Beaufort Castle, meaning “beautiful fortress" in Old French, is a 900-year-old stone fortress built by crusaders in the 12th century, perched about 700 meters (2,300 ft) above sea level in southern Lebanon, near the city of Nabatieh.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly ordered his military to take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip in a direct violation of the “ceasefire.” As part of the first phase of the “ceasefire,” Israeli forces were to withdraw to a so-called “yellow line,” an Israeli-imposed invisible border cutting the Gaza Strip roughly in half, leaving more than 50% of Gaza under Israel’s control. However, since the “ceasefire” began on Oct.

world — 3 min read Authorities in Hawaii arrested a tourist in Lāhainā, Maui, after he was filmed throwing a large rock at one of Hawaii’s critically endangered monk seals, claiming he was protecting turtles from it. The Hawaiian monk seal is one of the world's most endangered seal species and one of only two mammals native to Hawaii. It was officially listed as endangered on April 23, 1976, after hunting nearly wiped them out.

El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has passed a law allowing life sentences for children as young as 12 as part of the government’s measures to tackle gang violence in the country. Photo by STAFF/AFP via Getty Images Since Bukele took power in 2019, his government has declared a state of emergency, allowing police to mass arrest more than 89,000 people under charges of gang membership or “terrorism”, often arbitrarily. Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador.