Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, is from northern Iraq. Like many Yazidi women in the region, she was kidnapped, beaten, and raped by members of the Islamic State, who sold and bought her as a human sex slave over a three-month period. Last week, Taha spoke in front of the United Nations 15-member council meeting on human trafficking and told the representatives...

At least seventeen Saudi female politicians win council seats in the country's first ever election open to female voters and candidates Saudi Arabia has elected seventeen female politicians to municipal councils in a historic election that allowed women to vote and run as candidates for the first time. "When I was told that I won,...

It's stunning that a woman hasn't graced the cover of TIME as Person of the Year in almost three decades. Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, is TIME magazine's Person of the Year. Over the past several decades, TIME's editors have chosen a great many men, "The Computer," "The Endangered Earth," "The...

The results of a referendum for women on "The Establishment of a Private Rental Cars Company for Women" Ramallah-Nisaa FM:  Nisaa FM station is holding a referendum on rental cars for women through its website http://www.radionisaa.ps/ar_page.php?id=1b4431y1786929Y1b4431 The centerpiece of the question was: Do you support the...

Nisaa FM station conducted a workshop in Sussya village about women’s rights in personal status system Nisaa FM- Tahreer Sawafta: Nisaa FM conducted a workshop about women’s rights in personal status system and about awareness of Sharia courts in Palestine with cooperation with Enhanced Palestinian Justice Program EPJP which is attached...

 CAIRO (AP) — Egypt presented a proposed cease-fire to Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the monthlong war, Palestinian officials said early Wednesday after negotiators huddled for a second day of Egyptian-mediated talks aimed at ending the crisis and bringing relief to the embattled Gaza Strip. After more than 10 hours of talks on Tuesday,...