NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)-- From Iraq to Syria to the Gaza Strip, Arab women are paying a heavy price for violence flari

As ongoing tensions and what has been called “the politics of hate” rises to a critical point today follo

A coalition of 30 Israeli feminist groups released "A Comprehensive Action Plan for the Application of United Se

In February 1997, four residents of the north who were mothers of soldiers then serving in Lebanon established a prot

Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, outlined new ideas on Tuesday for making the Western Wall a place

The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary on Thursday (April 4) tha

This year's World Social Forum, a transnational gathering of social activists, took place in Tunis, a city bubbling w

Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections,

An Arab woman who's been toiling on the fringes of Israeli politics for nearly two decades has broken out of obscurit

Britain is being urged to look to Israel for lessons in how to combat human trafficking and rehabilitate victims.

The Likud-Beytenu list changes tactics • Instead of attacking Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett, it goes a

Jewish women endure arrests, heckling and legal battles in struggle to attain what they consider their inalienable ri

MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, condemns the growing violence that has killed at least 18

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Palestinian female police's violent dispersal of

Abeer Abu Ghaith, a poised young woman overflowing with optimism, works tirelessly to help Palestinian women achieve

A United Nations independent expert today called on the world body's General Assembly, as well as civil society, to t

The faces of five men in business suits and one woman in a white head scarf beam under the slogan “Modern Hebro

I woke up early that Sunday morning last May to attend the Nakba Day at Kass-Kass Park, just outside of Shatila Pales

As the sun set over Jerusalem, about one hundred women milled around tables covered with hand-made crafts.

Women in Israel have very different views on what the basic threats against their security are, depending on factors

Four recent cases of women slain allegedly at the hand of either a husband or father have prompted women and human ri

Lawmakers from 110 countries, representing all continents, pledged here last week to intensify efforts, individually