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09:25

“Women’s participation in politics and decision-making positions in Iraq must be empowered,” said women activists in Iraq.

07:28

Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi has sent an open letter to UN bodies, urging them to give special attention to “the Islamic Republic’s use of execution, assassination, murder, and enforced disappearance of its opponents through agents.”

13:57

Women prisoners held in Zahedan and Ezbaram prisons have joined the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, hunger strikes, against the execution of dozens of political prisoners.

13:19

25 million people are acutely hungry in Sudan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on the second anniversary of the Sudanese conflict.

12:47

At least 17 women and girls have been kidnapped in different cities of Syria, including Lattakia, Homs, Al-Suwaydaa, Tartous and Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based monitoring group, reported on Tuesday.

12:34

The statement of the interim Syrian government’s Minister of Culture about Syriacs is a continuation of the genocidal policy of 1915, said Xatûn İsa, member of the Syriac Union Party.

09:54

Sudanese women raise their voices for freedom and justice on the second anniversary of Sudan’s conflict. Despite two years into a devastating war, they keep struggling for a new, free and fair country.

07:48

Suad El-Abdullah, one of the Alawites who fled to North and East Syria due to the massacres committed by HTS-backed armed groups in Syria’s coastal regions, demands justice and accountability.

13:48

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network) released a press statement, condemning the attack of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam IDP Camp in North Darfur on Saturday.

12:40

Iran has sentenced Kurdish actress Shohreh Ghamar to four years and eight months in prison, her lawyer, Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani, announced on Sunday.

11:31

24 women’s organizations and political parties in Kurdistan have formed the “Platform for Kurdish Women’s Unity”.

10:21

Palestinian artist Dina Khaled Zaurub was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Quds News Network reported on Sunday.

08:39

“Despite all the suffering, I still believe the future will be better,” said Sabreen Al-Khairy, a Palestinian woman who has lost one of her legs in an Israeli airstrike, demanding the end of the war.

07:56

Dozens of people gathered at the Karama Square in the Druze majority city of Sweida on Sunday and protested Syria’s interim government led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

14:20

10 members of the same family, including seven children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday.

13:34

At least 10 Baloch prisoners were executed in various prisons across Iran in less than three days, the Balochistan Human Rights Group said in a statement on Thursday.

13:23

“Mother Üveyş became a symbol by carrying the traces of all people in her female personality,” Kongra Star said in a written statement on the death anniversary of Üveyş Öcalan, mother of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

09:58

Women of Raqqa condemn the killing of two women in the name of “honor” in Manbij, saying, “The attacks do not deter us from our struggle, on the contrary, they strengthen our determination to achieve equality.”

08:51

Impunity for femicide in Tunisia encourages perpetrators and causes a surge in femicides, say Tunisian women, demanding justice for women.

12:54

Rapid Support Forces’ horrific and widespread use of sexual violence in Sudan leaves lives in tatters, said a report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday.