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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

women's rights

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 24, 2025, 3:21 pm
Taliban slams possible ICC arrest warrant, says court should go after Israel and US
Kabul accuses court of trying to ‘impose a particular interpretation of human rights’ after chief prosecutor says Taliban leaders suspected of gender-based crimes against humanity
By AFP
A woman holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses for a picture, next to a government forces tank that was left on a street, at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 14, 2024, 4:22 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 14: Day 435 – How women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
As the rebel factions in Syria fight to wrest control, the world looks at their treatment of women. Middle East analyst Ksenia Svetlova, a former MK, ranks Israel and its neighbors
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova
A woman holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses for a picture, next to a government forces tank that was left on a street, at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 13, 2024, 8:50 am
What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
As the rebel factions in Syria continue to fight to wrest control, the world looks at their treatment of women. Middle East analyst, a former MK, ranks Israel and its neighbors
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova
Iraqi women demonstrate against underage marriage in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on August 8, 2024. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
December 1, 2024, 11:23 pm
Iraqi MPs to debate revised bill critics fear will allow 9-year-old girls to marry
Legislation allows people to choose religious law for family matters, communities to set own guidelines; MP says latest revised version sets the minimum marital age at 15
By AFP
Illustrative: An Israeli reserve soldier and his wife pose for a picture after their wedding in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, October 25, 2023. (Erez Ben Simon/Flash90)
November 22, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF rabbinate opposes asking troops to sign form ‘unchaining’ wives in case of disaster
While conditional divorces can free women in case of a husband’s disappearance or loss of mental faculties in battle, rabbis say pushing such a document on soldiers may hurt morale
By Mati Wagner
This UGC image posted on Twitter reportedly on October 26, 2022 shows an unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's home town in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to mark 40 days since her death. (Photo by UGC / AFP)
September 15, 2024, 1:25 pm
Two years after Mahsa Amini protests, Iran restores order but not legitimacy
Activists hope 2022 death of woman in custody who allegedly violated dress code won’t be in vain, but many are still reeling from the brutal crackdown on demonstrators
By Stuart Williams
Iranian women without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walk past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 14, 2024, 1:52 pm
Some Iranian women take off hijabs as anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches
Defiance comes despite what UN calls ‘expanded repressive measures, policies’ by theocracy; one says her ‘quasi-courage’ is due to Amini: ‘We have to protect this as an achievement’
By Jon Gambrell
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 9:17 pm
A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis
The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century
By Canaan Lidor
Labor MK Yael Dayan delivers a speech to the Knesset plenum to mark International Women's Day on March 7, 2000. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
May 18, 2024, 4:16 pm
Former MK Yael Dayan, trailblazing feminist and peace activist, dies at 85
Labor lawmaker was among the most prominent voices in the country advocating for equal rights; also a celebrated writer, she was the daughter of iconic statesman Moshe Dayan
By Amy Spiro
Women protest outside the UN Headquarters in Jerusalem over its failure to condemn Hamas violence against women during its October 7 onslaught, November 27, 2023. (Flash90)
November 28, 2023, 1:32 pm
Amid outcry over silence, UN Women posts, then deletes, condemnation of Hamas attack
UN body says statement was issued by mistake, was replaced by call for release of hostages; activists have decried UN failure to address evidence of rape, sexual abuse on Oct. 7
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: A woman stands with a symbolic zipper around her mouth and a sign identifying some of the hostages abducted by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack at a vigil demanding government action for their return, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 7, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
November 23, 2023, 7:18 pm
Global women’s rights groups silent as Israeli women testify about rapes by Hamas
Despite widespread evidence of terrorists’ systematic acts of sexual brutality on Oct. 7, most worldwide organizations either have no comment or bash IDF’s military campaign in Gaza
By Amelie Botbol
Women rally November 12, 2023, urging global women's organizations worldwide to take note of the atrocities committed against women by Hamas terrorists (Courtesy Galit Sabag)
November 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Israeli rights experts press UN to condemn Hamas crimes against women on Oct. 7
Ahead of Security Council session on impact of war on women and children, Israeli civil commission meets with panel for 1st time to present evidence of terrorists’ sexual violence
By Shira Silkoff
Illustrative: A protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
November 3, 2023, 11:32 am
Women in abusive homes fear for their safety as war leads to relaxed gun licensing
175,000 firearm license applications filed since Oct. 7 as Ben Gvir eases restrictions; forum calls for those with domestic violence complaints against them to be ineligible
By Shira Silkoff
A woman holds up a sign depicting a picture of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a solidarity demonstration in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on September 25, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
September 16, 2023, 4:36 pm
Iran briefly detains Mahsa Amini’s father in crackdown on 1st anniversary of death
Rights groups say Amjad Amini barred from leaving home after being warned not to hold memorial service at grave of his daughter, which security forces have reportedly blocked off
By Stuart Williams
A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's notorious 'morality police,' in Washington, on October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
September 16, 2023, 8:20 am
Heavy security as Iranians set to mark 1st anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death
Campaigners say relatives of at least 36 killed in crackdown have been interrogated, arrested, prosecuted or jailed over past month in bid to stop them speaking out
By Stuart Williams
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