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2018 A Sudanese court overturned the death sentence of 19-year-old Noura Hussein, who killed her husband who she said had raped her. Her sentence was commuted to a five-year jail term.

Crime

2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Law

2015 Consolidated with three other cases dealing with the rights of same-sex couples, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in DeBoer v. Snyder. Couple April DeBoer and Jane Rowse filed their suit on January 23, 2012 in federal district court, challenging Michigan's ban on adoption by same-sex couples, so the couple could jointly adopt their children. March 21 2014, Judge Bernard A Friedman issued his ruling overturning the ban, but on November 6, the Sixth Circuit reversed Judge Friedman and upheld Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage. The decision was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which, on January 16, 2015, consolidated this case with three others and agreed to review the case. Oral arguments were heard on April 28, 2015, and the Supreme Court struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban on June 26, 2015.

Politics

1949 The first Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote takes place.