January 20, 2015
7:34 pm

This undated file image posted on a militant website on January 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. (Photo credit: AP via militant website, File)

Islamic State executing ‘educated women,’ UN says

Civilians slain for banditry, homosexuality, adultery and various acts of ‘disloyalty’

By AFP

December 14, 2014
6:36 pm

An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)

Islamic State gives jihadis sex slavery manual

Graphic pamphlet lays out what is allowed (sexual violence, beatings, rape and child molestation) and what is not (hitting the face)

By Justin Jalil

October 31, 2014
7:54 am

Iranian women protest in front of the Isfahan judiciary on October 22, 2014, in solidarity with women injured in a series of acid attacks. (photo credit: AFP/ISNA/Arya Jafari)

West blamed for acid attacks on Iranian women

Tehran’s former intelligence minister says British spies are behind string of brutal assaults in Isfahan

By Tamar Pileggi

October 22, 2014
3:24 am

Immerse NYC's approach is modeled on Boston's Mayyim Hayyim mikveh, seen here. (Mayyim Hayyim / JTA)

Freundel scandal highlights converts’ vulnerability

How was an alleged sexual predator given absolute power over his female charges? And how can such situations be prevented in the future?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Uriel Heilman

April 16, 2014
8:01 pm

Video allegedly showing a woman being attacked by a mob in Tahrir Square, Cairo, November 2011. (screen capture: YouTube/bydesign001)

Sexual assault in Egypt going unpunished, group says

Although 250 incidents were reported between November 2012 and January 2014, nobody was brought to justice

By AFP

April 8, 2014
12:29 pm

Graffiti of a woman with the words "no harassment" in Arabic from 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In Egypt, women still have a long way to go

Despite gains on paper thanks to a new constitution, women’s right’s activists say there has been little progress

By Laura Dean

March 10, 2014
11:25 am

The social burden of gender inequality

Women in Israel, though more educated than men, earn less and are stuck in workplace gender ghettoes

By Naomi Chazan

February 26, 2014
8:03 pm

This ad from New-Pharm, featuring a women fixing her makeup while her house burns, made the list. (photo credit: Courtesy of WIZO)

WIZO calls out 10 sexist Israeli ads

A Bar Refaeli campaign, a video from Haaretz and ALDO shoes all make the cut

By Debra Kamin

October 10, 2013
6:38 pm

In this Thursday, November 15, 2012 photo, Pakistani girls gather under a poster of Malala Yousufzai in her old school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. The giant poster of her that once emblazoned the wall of the assembly hall has since been removed. (photo credit: AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Malala awarded top EU top human rights award

Sakharov Prize goes to 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot for defying Taliban’s restriction on girls’ education

By Raf Casert

April 14, 2013
1:15 am

A view of the marina in Eilat, December 20, 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

15-year-old suspected of raping US tourist

Woman, a volunteer on a kibbutz near Eilat, was returning from a night out with friends when she was attacked

By Times of Israel staff

March 16, 2013
10:45 am

An illustrative photo of Egyptian women waiting in line outside a polling station last December. (photo credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

131 countries adopt UN plan to combat violence against women

In surprise move, head of Egypt’s delegation ignores Muslim Brotherhood’s strong objections and signs on to the initiative

February 2, 2013
9:55 am

Tahrir Bodyguard volunteers gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, during a protest on Friday (photo credit: AP/Brian Rohan)

Egyptian volunteers try to curb sexual assaults

Violence against women has surged since the fall of Mubarak, with the UN citing 25 attacks in one week against female protesters in Tahrir

By Brian Rohan

November 11, 2012
12:57 pm

A Jerusalem man takes cover from the rain on Friday night. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon / FLASH90)

Stormy border and rainy weather

The Gazan border heats up; former IDF Chief Dan Halutz has a surefire way to end Iran’s nuclear program; and rain drenches the country

By Yossi Nachemi

November 4, 2012
4:18 pm

Illustrative photo of a security guard outside the Jerusalem District Court (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Security guard arrested for allegedly beating, imprisoning girlfriend

Evgeny Dovgilnok, 31, accused of attempted murder

By Gabe Fisher

June 13, 2012
10:12 am

Policeman accused of raping abuse victim

Officer denies rape claims, says had ‘consensual’ sex with woman while escorting her to an abused women’s shelter

By Aaron Kalman

Topic: violence against women