2023-04-10
At St. Joseph Catholic church in Amman, women from the Rafedin project sew dresses, jackets, belts and ties that are sold in Amman and Italy.
2022-09-16
A 22-year-old Iranian woman died in a Tehran hospital three days after the regime's morality police arrested her on the street for 'inappropriate coverage', and allegedly beat her into a coma.
2021-11-09
The all-women police centre and its branches will work to keep women in eastern Syria safe, and will serve as a deterrent to ISIS remnants.
2021-10-06
Among other abuses, the Houthis subjected dozens of women detained in its prisons to cruel and degrading treatment, including torture and rape, driving some to commit suicide.
2021-09-16
Diplomats say up to seven separate incidents occurred in which Iranian guards at nuclear facilities inappropriately touched and harassed female members of the UN monitoring agency.
2020-04-01
Women have been subjected to 16,667 violations since the war began, rights group says, with 14,907 of them committed by the Houthis.
2019-02-13
Lebanon's new government saw the appointment of four women ministers to key positions, including the interior minister post.
2018-09-03
Fourteen young women social entrepreneurs recently attended an intensive programme at Halcyon to help them develop their own business ventures.
2018-07-24
The new profession is now open to women in the kingdom, with 12 women recently receiving notarisation licenses.