Equality

Only a quarter of Iranians believe Iran is a just and equal society, regime survey admits

While the size and scope of the survey is unclear, Bathaei admitted that around 60% of Iranians are not hopeful that the social conditions will improve in the future.

Iranian demonstrators gather in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency's value, in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026.
Dr. Martain Luther King gave his most famous speech, ‘I have a dream,’ before the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March  on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

'We Are Black Jews': The story of Ethiopian Jews and Israel's unfinished journey - review

An illustrative image of an Israeli flag in the shape of a bird.

Am I a Zionist? Why Zionism must remain broader than politics - opinion

 Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis


'If not now, when?' Emotional Australian PM advances Indigenous referendum

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the question the government wants to set in the referendum later this year, urging Australians to back it.

 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, surrounded by members of the First Nations Referendum Working Group, speaks to the media during a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra, March 23, 2023.

Improving women’s equality helps men live longer too- study

Researchers found that gender equality in education had the strongest association with longer life expectancy for both genders.

Amy Bettys, co-chair of the Women's Health and Reproductive Rights organization, raises her fist during a chant outside of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office in support of the Reproductive Health Act during a Reproductive Rights rally in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, March 22, 2017.

Int'l Women's Day: Breaking through Israel's cement ceiling - opinion

I’m an Arab. I’m a Christian. I’m a Maronite. And I’m a woman. Each of these is a crucial part of my identity.

 THE WRITER attends a signing of an MOU involving the University of Haifa, United Arab Emirates University, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, on tackling the consequences of climate change and pollution.

Israeli Jews love Cyprus, but there is a religious equality battle

Cyprus is an Orthodox Christian state. All minority faiths, including Jews, face major challenges in obtaining religious equality.

 COASTAL VIEWS: Walking past a shipwreck near Paphos, on Cyprus’s southwestern coast (Illustrative).

Polyphony musical education organization hosts a binational multidisciplinary project

The organization also holds major events from time to time.

 HAIFA-BORN Germany-resident composer and pianist Faris Badarni.

Parents welcome first baby born to gay couple via surrogacy in Israel

Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a surrogate mother bears a child for an individual or a couple unable to have children for various reasons.

 Baby with two baby teeth.

An inspired partnership to employ autistic adults

An innovative new method to help adults with autism engage in society.

 MOBILEYE EMPLOYEES who are part of the Shekel partnership at work.

Gender equality gap persists in Israeli quality of life

23 of the indicators of Israel's quality of life examined by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics favored males, whereas 19 favored females.

Israeli protesters chant slogans as they march in the SlutWalk in central Jerusalem, on June 18, 2021.

Israeli rabbis express anxiety over new gov't and its policies

Rabbi Ohad Teharlev, the head of Midreshet Lindenbaum, warned of a "desecration of God's name" by the new government.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, national security minister and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the swearing in ceremony of the new israeli government at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022.

Amichai Chikli says he will focus less on Women of the Wall and Reform Jews struggles as minister

Chikli said that "every new minister put his emphasis on certain things. My emphasis will be on protecting the Jewish communities from antisemitism and also the fight against the BDS movement."

 MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset, April 25, 2022.