The UK's new generation welfare system, now in trial, has an automatic delay of 42 days after a person is accepted. This is intended to give the person a chance to end up on the street, go hungry, or go into debt, before receiving any support. That period starts after the series of bureaucratic screwups is resolved. For one woman, that stage took 6 weeks, meaning she will have to go without money for around 3 months before she gets unemployment pay.

The Mexican state of Veracruz will protect the "life" of fetuses while ignoring the murder of real human beings (annoying journalists).

People in the Philippines hit hard by consequences of global heating have accused certain companies (each responsible for a substantial fraction of all fossil fuel combustion ever done) of violating the human rights of people living (or formerly living) there.

A UK MP accuses Pakistani officials of covering up the patriarchal murder of a woman from her constituency.

I agree with Naz Shah that we should drop the term "honor killing". I think "patriarchal murder" is a fitting replacement. Firstly, because these killings are murder -- usually planned in advance. Secondly, because they come from a twisted patriarchal idea of "honor", which treats a woman as property.

In Juba, South Sudan, soldiers rape women at will when the women go outside the UN refugee camp, and the victims are afraid they will be outcast if they report it. UN personnel do not intervene even when they see a rape occur.