The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Friday nearly 70% of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza war were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law
Iran minister slams female student's public strip as 'immoral'
Iranian woman arrested after stripping in protest at Tehran university
UNRWA: One million women in the Gaza Strip do not receive hygiene supplies
Extreme misogyny could be treated as terrorism with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper working to “identify gaps in current legislation and examine emerging ideologies”
Iraqi Intelligence arrests key female ISIS member in Nineveh
Demonstrations are set to be held across seven Iraqi provinces on Thursday, protesting the highly-controversial bill to amend the Personal Status Law, which effectively would legalize child marriage among other things
The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that due to budget shortages, it will be unable to support 600,000 pregnant women in Afghanistan this summer. WFP says that last year it was able to provide services to 1.6 million pregnant and breastfeeding women to prevent malnutrition
Iran’s judiciary informed Sepideh Rashno, a civil rights activist opposing the mandatory hijab, that she must report to Evin Prison to serve a sentence of 3 years and 7 months. Rashno was arrested in July 2022 after a viral video showed her altercation with a woman who verbally assaulted her for not wearing a hijab on public transport. She was forced into a televised confession, appearing visibly bruised and showing signs of torture. After roughly 40 days in Evin prison, she was released on bail, reportedly set at $27,000
An arrestee for alleged rape in Malaga of a young foreigner in the doorway of her house
Medical sources for Al Jazeera: 50 dead, half of them children and women, in Israeli raids on the central and southern Gaza Strip since dawn today.
Mexico gets its first female president, with former energy scientist Claudia Sheinbaum elected by landslide, official projections show
Kent police arrest man suspected of raping two women
The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club: 28 female prisoners are deprived of their children by the Israelis
UN report: Most of the victims of Israel's war in Gaza are "women and children"
The Mossad has called back its team from Qatar today as a result of the collapse of the hostage negotiations. In a statement the Mossad said Hamas didn't implement its commitment in the agreement to release all the women it is holding hostage
Hamas has committed to release 20 women and children over the next two days, NSC's John Kirby says
Egyptian source: 13 detainees in the Gaza Strip, including women and children, will be released at 4 p.m. tomorrow, Friday.
United Nations: It is alarming that two-thirds of those who died in Gaza were women and children
Hamas in talks to free Israeli women, children hostages in exchange for release of 36 Palestinian women and children from Israeli jails - source to @Reuters
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 for her "fight against the oppression of women" in her country
Sources told KabulNow that the clash began on Friday night when forces of the Taliban’s Defense Ministry in coordination with its local Pashtun members tried to seize a military base run by the group’s Uzbek fighters in Masjid-e-Safed village in Baharak district.n
1 year agoMali: JNIM militants increase their pressure around Timbuktu. 26/08 Projection of 2 mortar shells causing 1 death and 3 injuries including 1 serious. 27/08 Burning of a truck transporting fuel. The militants block the road coming from Mauritania. Only small vehicles can pass as well as women and children. The impact is felt on the prices of fuel and basic foodstuffs (increase of 50 to 100%)
1 year agoThis morning, the team on GeoBarents rescued 13 people, including 2 women and 2 unaccompanied minors, who were in distress on a unseaworthy rubber boat. The survivors had spent more than 3 days at the Mediterranean sea
Security guards at Tehran University attacked students at the School of Fine Arts after a quarrel with a student over her head covering. The guards reportedly beat a number of students who had come to the defense of the female student
Two women were killed in an attack by a man armed with a knife at a shrine of the Ismaili (Shia) community in Lisbon, Portugal. The perpetrator was shot, according to CM he is Afghan, the victims are Portuguese
Nantes: four students file a complaint against the police for "sexual violence"
1 year agoOn International Women's Day, Treasury sanctions officials in Iran linked to serious human rights abuses against women and girls
1 year agoCommission Pres von der Leyen says she's in favor of female quotas. Finnish PM Marin agrees 50% of leaders should be women
Khamenei: Try to be one of the country's outstanding women. How Study your lessons well, do your homework well, work, think, and read books so that, God willing, you may be one of the great women in the country in the future
