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."

Artists perform, as Kurdish female fighters attend a military parade to mark the 13th anniversary of the founding of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Qamishli, Syria, April 4, 2026.
 Women wearing burqas pause at the side of a road in Kabul, Afghanistan October 26, 2021.

Five years after Taliban takeover, Afghan women remain trapped in deepening rights crisis

Rubaha, 8, watches from the entrance of her home as a buffalo is held down for sacrificial slaughter in celebration of Eid al-Adha in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan, June 8, 2025.

European Parliament demands Pakistan free 13-year-old Christian girl in forced marriage, conversion

Israeli Bedouin women’s rights activist and lawyer, Hanan Alsanah.

The Israeli-Bedouin women’s rights activist bringing women to the negotiation table - interview


WATCH: Sharia law scholar warns against higher education for women

"We throw our daughters and our children into the ocean and we say to them, 'Don't you dare get wet.'"

Students study in a laboratory

London Orthodox teacher fired for living with boyfriend wins legal case

Zelda de Groen told a tribunal that school managers subjected her to a “humiliating” hour-long interview.

A general view is seen of the London skyline from Canary Wharf in London, Britain, October 19, 2016

All-female police motorbike squad to fight gender crimes in Delhi

The squad of 600 policewomen will ride in pairs through the streets on state-of-art motorbikes, equipped with guns, pepper sprays and body cameras.

Indian policewomen perform a stunt on their motorbikes

Police arrest man for erasing women's faces from Jerusalem signs

"Dehumanizing women by erasing their faces is a very dangerous phenomenon that we have to fight."

Vandalized Eretz Nehederet street sign above the Begin highway

First female IAF pilot appointed deputy commander in combat squadron

Captain Y lost her grandfather, also an IAF pilot, during the Yom Kippur War.

A female air force pilot at the Hatzor base

Saudi women riled by robot with no hijab and more rights than they have

"It hit a sore spot that a robot has citizenship and my daughter doesn't."

A Saudi woman swings at a park in Jeddah

Despite assault allegations, ministry awards singer prize

Shlomo Gronich’s wife accepts lifetime achievement award day after songwriter accused of sexual assault.

Shlomo Gronich

More than 40 million people trapped in slavery worldwide

Almost three out of every four slaves are women and girls and one in four is a child, according to the report.

A Bella woman stands behind her Tuareg master at a camp for Malian refugees in Goudebou

1 in 6 female soldiers report sexual harassment in IDF

The majority of female soldiers who reported being sexually harassed said they had been harassed more than once during their service.

Israeli soldiers of Caracal battalion

Cyber-bully attacks increase, watchdog reports

Results showed that 62% of teenagers have encountered sexual content online.

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