An increasing number women in Baghdad are opting to wear Western clothing in public over the traditional Islamic dress of the region, causing violent attacks against them. Police report women choosing alternative dress are being attacked with corrosive acid.

Six half-naked animal rights demonstrators began a string of protests planned in the days before Pamplona's traditional "running of the bulls" begin next week. The group reportedly interrupted Madrid's historic Puerta del Sol square overnight in a protest against bullfighting. Shoppers and tourists snapped photos as the five young women and one man carried "Stop the Bloody Bullfights" signs held by the protesters, wearing only white underpants and plastic bulls horns on their heads. The chanted, "Torture is not art or culture".

Elizabeth Book wins the right to bare her breasts, one step further in her fight to go topless anywhere men can. A Volusia County Judge rules Book was within her rights when she bared her breasts during a political protest as part of Bike Week in March 2004. Daytona Beach city's ordinance allows an exemption to its anti-nudity law as long as the nudity is part of a political protest or other constitutionally protected issue. The judge also threw out her arrest and $253 fine.

A criminal gang in India has adopted an unorthodox, yet effective, method to avoid arrest: having women strip naked to distract police. The group is a timber mafia, dedicated to illegally chopping down trees in an eastern India forest in the Jharkhand state. The women are paid to strip in front of officers who are too embarrased, or too distracted, to hunt the criminals down, allowing more than enough time for escape.

New gender equality laws were submitted to Beijing, following a meeting of lawmakers. State media reports sexual harassment offenses face crimimal charges under changes to laws aimed at protecting women's rights.