Women's rights

Young Yemeni woman's suicide prompts calls for new legislation on women’s rights

The young woman died after being ordered by a Sanaa court to return to her husband's home.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
(ILLUSTRATIVE) A displaced Yemeni girl stands outside her shelter inside a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 28, 2024.
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

The letter deplored that women had never had a significant role in the ceremony at the Western Wall, other than lighting the ceremonial torch.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Activists protest against a bill that would give more authorities to the rabbinical courts outside the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, December 11, 2024.

Law widening religious courts’ role in civil disputes sparks debate over choice, rights - analysis

Critics also challenge one of the law’s intended benefits of easing pressure on the civil courts, arguing that the state is instead giving an existing judicial body additional authority.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
HEAD OF the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, Yanar Mohammed talks to press 24 August 2003 in Baghdad where she said that over 400 women in Iraq had been kidnapped, raped and sometimes sold since the Anglo-US occupation.

Iraqi feminist who saved thousands from honor killings slain by gunman outside home in Baghdad

Mohammed, who co-founded and directed the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was rushed to hospital where she perished from her wounds, according to local reports and Amnesty International.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Iranian women are 'not afraid' to shed hijab on streets of Tehran report shows

The punishment for not wearing a hijab is largely financial, although there are new systems to report women not complying with hijab rules to the morality police.

FEBRUARY 19, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Iranian woman walks on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023

Kosovo sexual assault awareness activist visits Israel in solidarity with victims of Hamas crimes

"I would have wished to believe that we have come a long way since Kosovo and was devastated to witness this apathy, the ignorance and insensitivity towards these crimes,"

FEBRUARY 8, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman visits homes in Kfar Aza destroyed on October 7

Israeli women-owned start-ups struggle to survive under shadow of war with Hezbollah

Northern Israel’s ‘Galiladies’ program aims to keep businesses afloat as citizens displaced by the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah wait to return home.

FEBRUARY 5, 2024ByAARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE
Erel Margalit and participants in the Galiladies startup program join for a group photo at the Galiladies' Bazaar event in the Margalit Startup City Tel Aviv headquarters, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 30, 2024.

There is a lack of women in Israeli ministry leadership - opinion

This trend of removing the few women in the senior public ranks is compounded by the fact that the 37th government removed all female directors-general serving in government ministries.

FEBRUARY 4, 2024ByANAT THON-ASHKENAZY
DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the Competition Authority Michal Cohen attends a Knesset Economic Affairs Committee meeting last month.

Iran's Khamenei suggests West destroys women’s dignity in social media post

The Iranian Supreme Leader took to X this week to chastise the West over its treatment of women.

DECEMBER 29, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks on during a meeting at the IRGC Aerospace Force achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran November 19, 2023

Human rights groups’ hypocrisy on Hamas rape - opinion

Respect has been forfeited from self-described human rights advocates when they failed to defend the human right of Jewish women to not be raped.

DECEMBER 25, 2023ByRAFAEL MEDOFF
A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

UK home secretary makes jokes about spiking his wife's drink

James Cleverly is facing calls to resign after making jokes at a Downing Street reception about date rape drugs.

DECEMBER 25, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly walks on Downing Street on the day of a cabinet meeting, in London, Britain September 5, 2023

Afghan women struggle for rights under increasing Taliban repression

Since it took over in 2021, the Taliban has claimed that it is merely aligning Afghan society to Islamic values, but women and girls are being left with ever-fewer options.

DECEMBER 9, 2023ByARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
An Afghan woman walks with her children on the anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2022.

Why don't women's orgs call to free Israeli women held hostage in Gaza? - opinion

Why aren’t they calling from the rooftops for the release of their Israeli sisters from the jaws of the terrorist group Hamas?

DECEMBER 9, 2023ByANDREA SAMUELS
SEVENTEEN ISRAELI women are still being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Why are international women’s groups not rallying?

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

DECEMBER 5, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
The Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations on Dec. 4 held a special session on sexual violence committed by Hamas during the terror attacks on Oct. 7.