Women and girls
UN adopts post-Assad Syria resolution recognizing women searching for missing family
Syria’s representative to the UN, told the General Assembly ahead of the resolution’s adoption that Syrian women faced what he described as “the worst missing persons crisis in modern history."
Five years after Taliban takeover, Afghan women remain trapped in deepening rights crisis
European Parliament demands Pakistan free 13-year-old Christian girl in forced marriage, conversion
The Israeli-Bedouin women’s rights activist bringing women to the negotiation table - interview
Could the next Knesset rabbi be a woman?
Women will finally get their shot at being Knesset rabbi.
Ritual Impurity and Giving Birth to a Baby Girl
Planned Parenthood boss: Kushner threatened to defund us over abortions
Kushner, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, was appointed senior advisor to the President of the United States after leading Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
'Feeling fine' at 85: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fends off retirement
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg intends to remain on the court as long as she's capable.
A league of their own
These Jewish women say celebrating Purim in the #MeToo era is different
Queen Vashti is often made out to be evil for standing up for herself and disobeying her husband’s command to expose herself to his guests.
Natalie Portman: I'm done being silent
Israeli actress Natalie Portman was breastfeeding during the Time's Up meeting.
Liberia bans female genital mutilation - but only for a year
Activists have long campaigned for FGM to be outlawed in Liberia, a country of about 4.6 million people, where around half of women have undergone the procedure.
Meet the women who make Israel more secure
“Women bring a different viewpoint and sometimes different solutions and we don’t have enough women in the high echelons of the security establishment.”
This Jewish woman is creating the world’s first vagina museum
Now, the museum is “my whole life,” she says. “I am now the vagina lady.”
