Violence against women
Syria’s missing women: What really happened to Batoul Alloush? - exclusive
Syrian authorities have maintained that the woman voluntarily left her family home and converted of her own free will. Her family, however, contends that she was abducted and is being held by force.
Three killed, including shooter, in Montreal shooting in Jewish neighborhood
Taliban official kills Iranian-Kurdish mother and daughter after failed forced marriage attempt
Bat Melech reports spike in domestic violence hotline calls during wartime
IOF releases report on violence against Israeli women in 2023
A third of all femicide cases in Israel in 2023 occurred after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
Full extent of Hamas's sex crimes on October 7 may never be known - Telegraph probe
Failure of collection of evidence, and stigma are some of the reasons the violence may never fully be known.
Feminist scholars blast ‘abandonment’ of Israeli women by major organizations
The National Women Studies Association has done little to condemn Hamas or assist the victims of the worst attack against women in recent memory, says the AEN.
UN Women’s late statement on sexual violence by Hamas - not enough
Evidence of Hamas’ sexual violence on October 7 was available all along. Women activists hope that its presentation at the UN headquarters will lead more people to recognize what happened.
Netanyahu on Oct. 7 rapes: Was world silent because victims were Jews?
“I expect all civilized leaders, governments, nations to speak up against this atrocity,” Netanyahu said.
‘Israeli female soldiers shot in crotch, vagina, breasts on October 7’
“It was often impossible for families to be shown faces – and it seems as if mutilation of these women’s faces was an objective in their murders."
Israeli and Jewish activists take campaign for greater concern about Oct. 7 sex crimes to UN
The Israeli UN mission calling for investigations into reported sexual violence by Hamas on October 7th during a conference at the UN on Monday
Gal Gadot calls out the global silence on Oct. 7 violence against women
Gadot called on the world to break the silence on sexual violence committed by Hamas against women and girls on October 7th and in captivity.
Antonio Guterres: 'Accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 must be investigated'
A UN commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
UN, women's orgs. ignore Hamas’s sexual violence against Israeli women
The deafening silence of global feminist organizations that were expected to spearhead the acknowledgment of gender-based violence in its most severe manifestations was followed by a denial campaign.
