Posts Tagged: Womens Rights
At European Parliament, Urgent Call for Action on Women’s Rights a Year After Hamas Sexual Violence
Global silence and inaction in the face of gender-based violence by Hamas were condemned at the European Parliament this week, where a panel of experts...
Iranian Oppression Causes a Backlash
The oppressive, internal anti-human rights policies of Iran's Islamist regime continue affecting all levels of society and often reach levels of a true Orwellian dystopia....
The Ayatollahs’ War on Women
JNS.org - President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are recalibrating, reassessing and reviewing military cooperation (including sale of arms) with pro-US Saudi...
Winter Presents New, Dire Challenges for Afghanistan’s Women
A harsh winter has descended upon Afghanistan. Everyone who is still there is now trapped, in hiding, and cold. Very cold. One woman asked us for...
Continuing to Try to Save Afghan Women Is ‘the Only Thing We Can Do’
We now know that the stubborn, almost incomprehensible way in which President Biden pulled out of Afghanistan was against military advice; that it led to...
We Must Investigate America’s Longest War
According to official estimates, the US expended a staggering $982 billion on the Afghanistan war effort. However, the Costs of War Project at Brown University assesses...
‘The Women of Afghanistan Must Be Heard’: Israel’s Ambassador to UN Demands Equal Rights for Afghans at Human Rights Council
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva urged member states to safeguard the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan following the takeover of...
Trying to Save Just One Afghan Woman
I have been trying to save just one woman in Afghanistan. It is proving to be an unimaginably arduous task, one that has taken up...
Practicing Feminism While White
The year 2021 is already a bad year for feminist truth-tellers. In March, three brave Indigenous Australian women flew to the capital in Canberra to draw...
Turkey’s Erdogan Quits European Treaty on Violence Against Women
President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, ministers and an official notice said on Saturday, prompting criticism from...
Tehran on My Mind
Monday marked International Women's Day, and the start of Women's History Month. And Iran is always on my mind when this day comes around. Iran and...
Top Palestinian Cleric Says Women May Not Travel to Dubai Without Male Chaperone
While Israelis are flocking to Dubai in the wake of the normalization agreement between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Authority’s...
Despite Low Support, Tunisian Islamists Aim for Power After President’s Death
Tunisian Islamists are hoping to return to power in upcoming elections triggered by last month's death of President Beji Caid Essebsi. And for the first...
Recent Case Spotlights the Rampant Abuse of Saudi Women
When Rahaf Mohammad Alqunun barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel room earlier this month and took to Twitter, begging the world to protect her from...
