ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A women’s rights organization on Monday called for the complete abolition of polygamy in the Kurdistan Region, citing it as the root cause of a horrific crime committed last ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy ...

Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without ...

A pair of women repatriated to Edmonton after living in territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State have agreed to ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” ...

According to Asia News, a Vatican-affiliated news agency that reports on Christian communities, more than 800 people, ...

Peace was a central theme in this year’s celebrations in the Kurdish city, where Women's Day was marked for the first time in ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Turkish cities to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women ...

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a ...

The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.