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 activist: Desperate regime waging all-out war against women

"Long live the resistance. Long live freedom. Long live the indomitable brave women of Iran," said Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi.

APRIL 21, 2024ByTZVI JOFFRE
Thousands of Iranians head to Mahsa Amini's grave in Saqqez, October 26, 2022

Sexual assault and brutal beatings: Iran renews violent hijab crackdown

Videos from Iran showed women struggling as "Morality Police" officers tried to shove them into vans in widespread arrests.

APRIL 17, 2024ByTZVI JOFFRE
Iranian women walk on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2023

Taliban leader doubles down on treatment of women in annual address

The Taliban has suspended girls' education past the sixth grade and banned women from public spaces such as parks, gyms, and bathhouses.

APRIL 12, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TALIBAN LEADER Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is seen in an undated photograph posted on a Taliban Twitter feed and identified separately by several Taliban officials who declined be named.

Google marketing manager: 'Our superpower should be our diversity'

Marta Mozes addresses the Women Leaders Summit.

MARCH 28, 2024ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Marta Mozes, Marketing Manager at Google for Startups, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, speaking at the Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit.

Full equality for women starts with education and legislation, says The Luzzatto Group CEO

Dr. Esther Luzzatto will be one of the judges for the "2024 Next-Gen Women's Entrepreneurship Award" at the upcoming Jerusalem Post's Women Leaders Summit on March 27.

MARCH 21, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dr. Esther Luzzatto, CEO of The Luzzatto Group.

The 120 Women Leadership Council: Addressing a problem with no name

The 120 Women Leadership Council participants have engaged in extensive dialogues across various regions of Israel.

MARCH 7, 2024ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Women take part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, U.S., March 8, 2017

Women from Iran, Israel call to denounce Hamas and the Islamic Republic

Co-signed by 55 female leaders from various countries across the Middle East and beyond, the letter finds rare consensus regarding the role of the terrorist group in the oppression of women.

MARCH 7, 2024ByOHAD MERLIN
Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

More female representation in government, please - opinion

Women are not better than men, but they are also no worse. It is time to meet the challenge laid down decades ago by our one and only female leader.

MARCH 4, 2024BySONIA GOMES DE MESQUITA
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in November 1973.

Health implications for women harassed on public transport - study

Public transport is prone to harassment situations towards women because the high passenger density in confined spaces creates a conducive environment for unwanted behaviors.

MARCH 3, 2024ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Harassment against women in public transport environments is not only serious but has also become ‘normalized’ in many societies.

First Lady Michal Herzog slams global women's rights organizations for failure to act

Michal Herzog said that Israeli and Jewish women felt "betrayed by the deafening silence" of human and women's rights organizations around the world, which chose not to respond to or address Oct.7.

FEBRUARY 23, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
(L-R) Michal Herzog and President Isaac Herzog light Hanukkah candles with family members of people taken hostage in Gaza., at Hostage Square in Jerusalem.