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14:13

The Sexual Assault Division of Iraq’s Forensic Medicine Department has documented 421 cases of sexual assault and violence across Iraq in the first six months of 2024.

13:35

179 workers, including nine women and seven children, died in work-related accidents in August, said the report released by the Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG) on Wednesday.

12:30

A group of Spanish women activists has launched a petition urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to classify the Taliban’s oppression of women and girls as a crime against humanity.

10:59

The Turkish state commits crimes against humanity in northeastern Syria, Evîn Cuma, Co-chair of the Human Rights Organization in Jazira Canton, calling on international human rights organizations to stand against the Turkish attacks.

10:21

Journalist Mîdiya Ehmed condemns the Turkish attack targeting journalists in Sulaymaniyah and "the silence of the Iraqi government against the attack. According to international conventions, Any attack on journalists is a crime against humanity.”

15:12

In August 2024, two women journalists were killed and 25 women journalists were subjected to rights violation, said a report released by the Mesopotamia Women’s Journalists (MKG).

14:23

Hatav Akrami, cousin of the slain Kurdish protester Mehran Akrami, has been sentenced to eight months in prison by Branch 101 of the Bukan Criminal Court.

13:55

More than 400 people, including 15 women, have been executed in Iran since the start of 2024, a group of 11 independent United Nations rights experts said in a statement on Monday.

12:21

158,992 children in Gaza received polio vaccinations within two days of the start of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Monday.

10:20

Afghan women and women all around the world have published videos of themselves on social media platforms, reading poems or singing songs to protest the Taliban’s new morality laws.

15:12

Israel's biggest labor union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to bring back Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza.

14:45

“What an unjust and treacherous state this is. What did my sons do?” asked Emine Şenyaşar on the 11th day of her protest in front of the Turkish Parliamentary Speaker’s Office in Ankara.

14:31

People in Iran should unite and protest the death sentences against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and journalist Pakhshan Azizi, women’s and children rights activist Parveen Azad said, “Women prisoners keep resisting despite everything.”

12:27

“They have become the light of truth,” says the headline of the 234th issue of Newaya Jin, a monthly women's newspaper published in Europe, indicating journalists Gulistan Tara and Hêro Behadîn, who were killed in Sulaymaniyah.

09:18

Martyr Jiyan Academy held a workshop on gender equality for male teachers in the Makhmour refugee camp. “We cannot teach the truth without overcoming the patriarchy,” said the teachers participating in the workshop.

14:40

Afghan women have published videos of themselves on social media, singing songs against the Taliban’s morality laws banning them from singing in public.

14:12

Only 17 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are currently operating partially amid the ongoing Israeli aggression, Michael Ryan, Director of Global Emergency Response at the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Friday.

13:25

Hassina Mouri, a Professor in Medical Geology at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), became the first African woman elected as the president (2024-2028) for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).

10:57

Israel agrees to brief pause in fighting so Palestinian children can receive polio vaccinations, WHO said on Thursday.

10:51

“She worked as a journalist for 24 years. We will maintain her struggle,” said Nalîn Dîcle, colleague of Gulistan Tara, who was killed in a Turkish drone attack in Sulaymaniyah on August 23.