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
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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
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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
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday Washington has imposed additional additional visa restrictions on some Taliban members in response to bans on women's rights
Palestinian Prisoners Club: Authorities suppress female prisoners in Damon Prison, and the prisoners decide to escalate their protest steps
A man with a criminal record kills his partner and her 8-year-old daughter in Valladolid. The perpetrator would have called his brother-in-law to notify him of the double murder perpetrated with a knife
Khamenei: In the Quran 2 women are mentioned as role models for all human beings, Pharaoh's wife & SaintMary. It is the exact opposite of Western culture, which sets men as role models. Here in the Quran, women are mentioned as role models, not just for women, but for all of humankind
Khamenei: Islam sees individuals as "human beings" when it evaluates them, and there is no difference between a man and a woman in this. The equality of men and women in the field of human values is one of the principles of Islam
Khamenei: Some said unrestricted relations between men & women in the West would make men sexually indifferent & prevent sexual crimes. But it's become worse & men's appetites have grown 100 times, leading to various types of sexual corruption & them breaking all moral & human boundaries
Khamenei: The ultimate disgrace of the West is that despite the problems in their society such as sexual slavery and the female sex trade, they claim to be the flag bearers of women's rights
Khamenei: Even now women are paid less than men for doing the same work in many Western countries. Women are being misused. Under the pretext of women's emancipation in the 19th and 20th centuries, women were pulled out from their homes to work in factories with lower wages
