Women

Prison authorities beat some prisoners with sticks, chains, metal pipes, and slingshots, with some subjected to electric shocks and cigarette burns, according to Human Rights Watch.

UNFPA concluded that Israel’s military response to Hamas had resulted in Palestinian women being subjected to violence by family members, members of the community, and others.

“Women’s problems are not limited to the hijab,” Fattahi said. “Freedom does not simply mean having the freedom to choose whether or not to wear a hijab. This is the most basic of women’s rights.”

“We really want to show the diversity and the connection and the love for Israel,” HER Tel Aviv founder and CEO Sivan Hadari said.

"As the delegation passed through, women were asked to leave their workstations so that men could take their places," Diane Davoine, a union representative, told Reuters.

In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.

Syria’s representative to the UN, told the General Assembly ahead of the resolution’s adoption that Syrian women faced what he described as “the worst missing persons crisis in modern history."

At least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 12, received intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections between 1966 and 1991.

Will the women who played such a heroic and key role in defeating ISIS receive new roles in Syria's new security force, or be left behind?

For the first time, a female pilot has been certified as a Jet Captain at the airline.