Women and girls

Iran is crumbling: The Islamic Republic's final days are upon us - opinion

For the Islamic Republic of Iran, a 'great storm' is coming – a convergence of economic despair, massive military defeats, internal disillusionment, and a US maximum pressure campaign.

 Ayatollah Khamenei attends the fourth night of ceremonies on the anniversary of the death of Fatima al-Zahra, the Prophet Muhammad's daughter, in Tehran December 5, 2024.
 Orna Barbivai

Championing change, empowerment for at-risk young women: Orna Barbivai's new job

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We don't have to go to South Africa: We went on a women's journey in Kenya

 Hilla Bakshi speaks at the Women Leaders Summit on March 28, 2024.

Unleash your networking potential: 5 tips for women by high-tech guru Hilla Bakshi


Grapevine March 22, 2024: Force of females

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 (L-R) Michal and President Isaac Hezog and Rabbi Benny Lau listen to Prof. Ruchama Elbaz

Empowering women: Israel's Knesset hosts special conference for International Women's Day

Stormy separate Knesset committee discussion over funding for a forum that combats domestic violence cut short

 Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Hamas celebrates UN call for probe into alleged IDF abuses of Palestinian women

The UN statement reported allegations that Palestinian women and girls had been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, frequently along with family members, including children.

Palestinian women sit at the debris of a house destroyed in an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip November 13, 2019

IOF releases report on violence against Israeli women in 2023

A third of all femicide cases in Israel in 2023 occurred after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

 A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

Bat mitzvah girls demonstrate Israeli moral strength with hair donations - opinion

A 12-year-old girl can have her big party, but what she’ll take with her into her future are the small acts of kindness she does for others.

 THREE GIRLS proudly show their hair donations. The bat-mitzvah age is the most common for hair donations.

Judge temporarily exempts women with complicated pregnancies from Texas abortion ban

Abortion was banned with very limited exceptions in Texas.

Women protesting for abortion rights, forty-five years after Roe v. Wade.

What do MENA Muslims think about the role of women in society? – study

The researchers surveyed respondents from Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories on their perception of women's chastity and marital patriarchy.

Women shop at a street in Tehran, Iran, November 29, 2021.

How do you react when your children ask to wear make-up and dress up?

Encouraging your daughter's dress-up delights: How to respond to her desires for spinning dresses, nail polish, perfume, and makeup.

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US Supreme Court turns away case on charter school's mandatory skirts for girls

Turning away an appeal by Charter Day School Inc, the justices left in place a lower court's decision that the dress code discriminates against students based on gender in violation the Constitution

 THE US Supreme Court building in Washington: As many in Israel believe today, the Anti-Federalists, who opposed the constitution, objected to governorship by the court and feared such power granted to the court could render it an absolute ruler.

Sixty Afghan girls hospitalized after school poisoning - police

In neighboring Iran, poisoning incidents at girls' schools sickened an estimated 13,000 mostly female students since November.

 An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022

Lebanese women find work, if they can get it, 'senseless' due to economic conditions

Rising unemployment rates are affecting both men and women, but the latter are being hit much harder. Women are losing jobs and being forced into dependency.

Syrian refugee women and children work in a field in Al-Khiam village, near the Israeli border in south Lebanon October 13, 2017.