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

The radical changes in the Arab world mean women's rights groups face the major challenge of campaigning for both equ

Kurdish women are getting involved in the peace process to promote a free, equal and democratic society.

GENEVA (AP) — The leader of Syria's Western-backed opposition said Thursday he will give his negotiating team t

A proper democracy cannot be established without the participation of women.

The campaign to ensure women's equal participation at the peace talks on Syria in January has become more urgent, as

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

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

As unrest unfolds in the Middle East, a traveling art exhibition at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln seems all th

Six women were arrested at the Western Wall on Thursday for wearing prayer shawls during services in a manner that ha

It's been nearly two years since Syria's dictator Bashar al Assad began his brutal assault on hundreds of thousands o

In the offices of the General Union of Palestinian Women –a bastion for older-generation prominent women politi

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

The Iranian government and police have begun positioning women as watch guards at female prisons across the country a

A new group running for municipal elections in Hebron is offering residents an alternative to politics as usual in th

Security forces in Iraq have arrested Eman ”Dakhiliya”, who run one of the worse trafficking chains in Ba

Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi issued a letter to the United Nations Women Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet,

A new Lebanon based human rights and equality initiative is now partnering with men to reach the goal as advocates fo

The situation in northern Lebanon has made a turn for the worse during the last couple of weeks, after several outbre

Promising news as a United Nations-brokered truce brings a day of relative calm to Syria after weeks of escalating vi

As the Arab Spring is reshaping social and political structures across the Middle East region, a Nobel Peace Prize-wi