The UN rights office says the Taliban response to peaceful protests in Afghanistan has been increasingly violent.

US Air Force and Space Force’s women and non-white members are treated differently than their white, male counterparts, the service’s independent watchdog has found.

The Taliban interim government has reportedly agreed to the evacuation of 200 US and other foreign nationals from Afghanistan.

Dozens of women across the Middle East and North Africa are at the risk of being blackmailed or harassed as a result of the use of Israeli Pegasus spyware.

Sixteen Palestinian inmates are currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons in protest at their detention without charge at the hands of Israel, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs says

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says more than 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden region of Tigray could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold jump in average annual levels.

Women have been hit harder than men by job losses around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

Armed Afghan women take to the streets in the north and central regions of Afghanistan to protest against the Taliban militant group.

Turkey has formally exited an international treaty aimed at combatting violence against women.

A legal jurist sitting on Iran’s Constitutional Council says there is no prohibition on women contesting presidential elections.