September 18, 2016
5:46 pm

Assailant Abdullah Çakıroğlu outside court in Istanbul September 18 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Turkish court frees man who attacked woman for ‘inappropriate’ clothing

Abdullah Çakıroğlu pleads guilty to assault after shouting ‘Those wearing shorts must die!’ and kicking bus passenger in face

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

August 23, 2016
11:13 am

Israel Police, December 22, 2010 (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Galilee man held on suspicion of murdering pregnant wife

Woman found with stab wounds and other signs of violence; couple’s 2 children were in the house at the time

By Times of Israel staff

March 8, 2016
3:21 pm

Palestinian women at a demonstration in 2012 protesting violence against women held at the spot where a woman's throat was allegedly slashed by her husband, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

One in three Arab women fears violence within family

Knesset study shows stark contrast in feeling of personal security between Arab and Jewish populations

By Daniel Douek

February 18, 2016
10:59 pm

Paramedics outside a Tel Aviv home in which an 18-year-old woman was murdered, allegedly by her sister and the latter's boyfriend, on February 18, 2016. (Channel 2 News)

Teen, her boyfriend confess to killing her twin sister

Knife found in apartment where 18-year-old was stabbed to death; sister called police to report the attack

By Itamar Sharon

February 18, 2016
4:38 pm

Illustrative photo of a knife (YouTube screen capture)

18-year-old stabbed to death on her doorstep in Tel Aviv

Teenager’s twin sister and her boyfriend suspected of involvement in her killing

By Itamar Sharon

November 3, 2015
9:46 pm

Pakistani relatives carry the body of young woman who died after being set on fire by a rejected suitor, in a hospital in Multan on November 3, 2015. (SS Mirza/AFP)

Pakistan woman set on fire for refusing marriage

Hundreds of women are murdered in the country each year in domestic violence and ‘honor killings’

By AFP

August 7, 2015
12:28 am

Islamic State fighters pass by a convoy in the town of Tel Abyad in northeast Syria, May 4, 2015. (Jihadist website via AP)

IS executes 19 women ‘for refusing to take part in sexual jihad’

From the web Victims in group’s stronghold of Mosul refused to have sex with jihadi fighters, The Independent reports

March 22, 2015
6:07 pm

Afghan women rights activists carry the coffin of 27-year-old Farkhunda, an Afghan woman who was beaten to death by a mob, during her funeral, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 22, 2015. ( photo credit: AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghani woman beaten to death by mob was falsely accused of burning Quran

Victim, laid to rest by women’s rights activists dressed in black, vindicated by country’s top detective

By LYNNE O'DONNELL and Rahim Faiez

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

Illustrative photo of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath (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

Topic: violence against women

Turkish court frees man who attacked woman for ‘inappropriate’ clothing

Abdullah Çakıroğlu pleads guilty to assault after shouting ‘Those wearing shorts must die!’ and kicking bus passenger in face

Galilee man held on suspicion of murdering pregnant wife

Woman found with stab wounds and other signs of violence; couple’s 2 children were in the house at the time

One in three Arab women fears violence within family

Knesset study shows stark contrast in feeling of personal security between Arab and Jewish populations

Teen, her boyfriend confess to killing her twin sister

Knife found in apartment where 18-year-old was stabbed to death; sister called police to report the attack

18-year-old stabbed to death on her doorstep in Tel Aviv

Teenager’s twin sister and her boyfriend suspected of involvement in her killing

Pakistan woman set on fire for refusing marriage

Hundreds of women are murdered in the country each year in domestic violence and ‘honor killings’

IS executes 19 women ‘for refusing to take part in sexual jihad’

From the web Victims in group’s stronghold of Mosul refused to have sex with jihadi fighters, The Independent reports

Afghani woman beaten to death by mob was falsely accused of burning Quran

Victim, laid to rest by women’s rights activists dressed in black, vindicated by country’s top detective

Islamic State executing ‘educated women,’ UN says

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

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)

West blamed for acid attacks on Iranian women

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

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?

Sexual assault in Egypt going unpunished, group says

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

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

The social burden of gender inequality

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

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