Women and girls

Israeli NGO, US non-profit collaborate to deliver 2,000 hygiene kits to Khan Yunis women, girls

NATAN Worldwide Disaster Relief launched the initiative in response to infrastructure damage and supply shortages that have limited access to sanitation products.

NATAN dignity kits
A scene from ‘Girls Like Us.’

Behind the scenes of gritty Israeli drama ‘Girls Like Us’

A  gunmen attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State on November 17, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, according to police, Kebbi, Nigeria, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on November 18, 2025.

Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls have been released, official says

 Names of women murdered by their husbands hang on billboards in Jerusalem on June 16, 2020, as part of protest actions to raise awareness of violence against women.

Femicide in Israel on the rise, particularly among Jewish-Israeli women


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

All-female police motorbike squad to fight gender crimes in Delhi

The squad of 600 policewomen will ride in pairs through the streets on state-of-art motorbikes, equipped with guns, pepper sprays and body cameras.

Indian policewomen perform a stunt on their motorbikes

Police arrest man for erasing women's faces from Jerusalem signs

"Dehumanizing women by erasing their faces is a very dangerous phenomenon that we have to fight."

Vandalized Eretz Nehederet street sign above the Begin highway

First female IAF pilot appointed deputy commander in combat squadron

Captain Y lost her grandfather, also an IAF pilot, during the Yom Kippur War.

A female air force pilot at the Hatzor base

Saudi women riled by robot with no hijab and more rights than they have

"It hit a sore spot that a robot has citizenship and my daughter doesn't."

A Saudi woman swings at a park in Jeddah