women's rights

Afghan women struggle for rights under increasing Taliban repression

Since it took over in 2021, the Taliban has claimed that it is merely aligning Afghan society to Islamic values, but women and girls are being left with ever-fewer options.

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
09/12/2023

Why don't women's orgs call to free Israeli women held hostage in Gaza?

Why aren’t they calling from the rooftops for the release of their Israeli sisters from the jaws of the terrorist group Hamas?

Israeli and Jewish activists take campaign for greater concern about Oct. 7 sex crimes to UN

The Israeli UN mission calling for investigations into reported sexual violence by Hamas on October 7th during a conference at the UN on Monday

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
05/12/2023

A surge in femicide cases in Egypt raises alarm

Egyptian women’s rights activist to TML: “Recently, any woman’s refusal to comply could result in her murder.”

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
04/10/2023

Israel's Druze threaten to cut ties with IDF after young woman drafted

Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif warned that "if the State of Israel wishes to maintain its alliance with the Druze community - it must set the record straight."

Iran Guards detain dual national for 'organizing unrest and sabotage'

The Revolutionary Guards detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organize unrest and sabotage," on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.

By REUTERS
16/09/2023

The shofar’s call to remember Mahsa Amini - opinion

The call of the shofar is a demand not to accept a broken world and a warning not to look the other way when people need us. 

By SHEILA KATZ
15/09/2023

WATCH: Israeli women's rights activists march on ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak

In an unusual move, the police have sanctioned the protest to take place in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak.

Israeli becomes first woman in Bedouin town to drive an ambulance

Lina Ezberga, an emergency medic who grew up in Kuseife, received her ambulance license after she started volunteering at MDA six years ago.

2 years into Taliban’s rule: Afghan women barred from working, study in the shadows

Removing half of the population from the workforce has worsened the already deteriorating economic situation

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
17/08/2023
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