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Mahsa Amini—a Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody last year—and the Woman, Life, and Freedom Movement she inspired in Iran have been awarded the 2023 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Speaking at a plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday, European Parliament...

More than 90 percent of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, UN officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter...

Mahsa Amini—the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year— sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been named a finalist for the European Union’s top human rights prize. The European Parliament on Thursday announced...

The consideration and passage by Uganda's government of one of the world's harshest anti-gay laws have unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, mostly committed by private individuals, rights groups said on Thursday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was enacted in May, prescribes the...

At least 35,178 people have suffered sexual, gender, and reproductive violence in Colombia's armed conflict, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal said on Wednesday as it opened an investigation. Women, girls, and people with diverse sexual orientations, identities, and expressions of...

Rights groups have claimed that Iranian authorities arrested Mahsa Amini’s father and prevented her family from holding a vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of her death. The 1500tasvir monitor, the Iran Human Rights group, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said Amjad Amini had been...

A new draft law that would enshrine harsh punishments for women and girls who fail to wear a hijab in Iran could amount to “gender apartheid,” UN experts said in a statement on Friday. “The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through...

There has been a “disturbing surge” in the number of female suicides and attempted female suicides in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control in 2021, according to a report by British newspaper The Guardian. The report said health care providers agreed to privately share the information from...

Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers continue a widespread and systematic campaign of rape in Tigray, despite the peace agreement signed in November last year, a new report reveals. In the first report to document sexual violence—using hundreds of medical records from the start of the conflict in...

A human rights group urged the international community on Monday to intervene quickly to end spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti, as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the troubled nation's capital. The call by Human Rights Watch comes as Haiti awaits a response from the UN...