Women's rights
UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression
The Taliban has restricted women's movements and barred girls from education beyond primary school since coming to power in 2021, via a series of morality laws limiting expression and employment.
Two years after October 7, Israeli women still battle for equality - from the editor
Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis
Knesset panel advances bill to expand rabbinical courts’ power over civil matters
UN World Population Day highlights women's rights in Israel
Around the globe, women continue to face barriers. In Israel, analysts express concern about the status of women under the right-wing government.
Jewish groups fight abortion bans, citing religious liberty
Asserting that such restrictions violate their religious beliefs, these groups are at the forefront of a legal strategy seeking to protect reproductive rights through the lens of religious freedom.
Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close
Foreign governments and UN officials have condemned growing restrictions on women since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
MK Haskel taken off Knesset podium for holding her daughter while speaking
She wanted to present her proposed bill for a first reading in the Knesset, but the Knesset's legal advisor asked her not to speak and to descend the podium.
'Gender Apartheid' is virtue signaling: Expert criticizes UN on Afghan women’s rights
A New York-based lawyer questions the UN's strategy to declare gender apartheid a crime, arguing that existing laws should be enforced instead.
Baháʼís seek unity with Iranians to demand women's rights
Forty years after the public execution of 10 Baháʼí women in Iran, the Baháʼí community sees the Iranian people as partners, not persecutors
WIZO Battered Women’s Shelter celebrates 40th anniversary
WIZO and government officials, formerly sheltered women and children speak. 200,000 women and 500,000 child domestic violence victims annually.
Gender biases not improved over past decade, UN says
The degree of improvement over time has been "disappointing," said Heriberto Tapia, research and strategic partnership adviser at UNDP and co-author of the report.
Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers in Prague
L’Chaim is an organization dedicated to helping sex workers in the Czech Republic.
Iran: Women's cars can be impounded if they're caught without hijab
AAIRA's Lawdan Bazargan told the Post that the "Islamic regime of Iran is a gender-apartheid regime that has no respect for women, human life, or human dignity."
