Women and girls

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

Shahbaz was married to her abductor in March, despite most provinces requiring a person to be at least 18 to marry.

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

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

(ILLUSTRATIVE) A homeless Palestinian bride walks with her mother (R) during her wedding ceremony at a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians from the Israeli offensive, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 17, 2014.

Pressure builds on Palestinian girls to marry as Gaza sees rise in child marriage rates - UNFPA

The social pressure surrounding it is not imaginary

The girl asked to remove hair? An expert explains when it’s allowed to start


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.

Jared Kushner

'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.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A league of their own

Galia Toren Hen and Michal Elbaz pose for Guilty's 'Community is inspiration' campaign

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.

A Jewish family dressed in costumes celebrates the festival of Purim

Natalie Portman: I'm done being silent

Israeli actress Natalie Portman was breastfeeding during the Time's Up meeting.

Presenter Natalie Portman and Ron Howard at the 75th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, US January 7, 2018.

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.

A man in Kenya shows the logo of a T-shirt that reads "Stop the Cut" referring to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

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.”

(L-R) Sima Shine, Pnina Sharvit Baruch and Orit Perlov

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.”

Florence Schechter on YouTube

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