In the Philippines, a bill raising the age of sexual consent from 12 to 16 years old has been passed, a decision hailed as historic by child rights advocates since it will better protect children against sexual crimes.
Oppressive marital laws in South Africa have changed for the better thanks to four courageous women, granting around 400,000 elderly black women access to matrimonial property after decades of inequality.
North Carolina, United States has become the first southern state to grant former inmates their right to vote, a ruling which aims at redressing the state’s racist origins of its “felon disenfranchisement” law.