A UN commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
The deafening silence of global feminist organizations that were expected to spearhead the acknowledgment of gender-based violence in its most severe manifestations was followed by a denial campaign.
A new study sought to understand public perceptions on retributive justice in cases of lethal violence against women.
The UN said that this is "gender discrimination designed to bring the women of Iran into complete submission."
Sarit, an 18-year-old girl from the Druze town of Kisra-Sumei, was threatened for years before her murder due to her sexual orientation.
As South Azerbaijani dissident Babek Chalabi noted, the world needs to "break free from Iran's nurturing of terrorism."
The researchers surveyed respondents from Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories on their perception of women's chastity and marital patriarchy.
The UN estimates 4.2 million people are at risk of gender-based violence, up from 3 million before the conflict started in mid-April.
The US Supreme Court sided with a Colorado man who claimed that his harassment of a female musician was protected under free speech.
In neighboring Iran, poisoning incidents at girls' schools sickened an estimated 13,000 mostly female students since November.
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