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The walkout is set to be the first all-day stoppage since 1975. LONDON -- Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including the prime minister, are on Tuesday set to take part in the European nation's first full-day women's strike in 48 years. Known as the "Kvennafri," or "Women's Day off," the scheduled walkout is in protest of the ongoing systematic gender pay gap and gender-based violence in Iceland, and to shine light on the immense contribution of women Icelandic society, organizers said. According to event organizers -- close to 40 organisations, including the Federation of the Public Workers Union in Iceland, Iceland's largest association of public worker unions -- the walkout is expected to be the largest by Icelandic women in almost half a century. "On October 24, all women in Iceland, including immigrant women, are encouraged to stop work, both paid and unpaid," event organizers said. "For the whole day, women and non-bina...

Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional TOKYO -- Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring trans gender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to official ly change their gender is unconstitutional. The decision by the top court’s 15-judge Grand Bench was its first on the constitutionality of Japan’s 2003 law requiring the removal of reproductive organs for a state-recognized gender change, a practice long criticized by international rights and medical groups. The decision now requires the government to revise the law, which paves the way for transgender people to have their gender changed in official documents without surgery. The case was filed by a plaintiff whose request for a gender change in her family registry — to female from her biologically assigned male — was turned down by lower courts. The decis...