Challenges

This comprehensive study, the first of its kind, shows, among other things, that customs and traditions, the patriarchal mindset, and women's lack of economic independence are considered by the community to be the most significant factors hindering gender equality. ...

At this critical juncture, silence is complicity. The international community must act urgently to protect civil society and defend fundamental rights....

The Israeli war on Gaza, which began with Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2013, inflicted heavy losses on the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories as a whole...

The dust of war has not yet fully settled in the Gaza Strip, which continues to count its martyrs, tally its wounded and missing, and inspect the buildings destroyed by the two-year conflict...

As Netanyahu’s coalition teeters under a conscription crisis and looming court deadlines, he may once again manufacture a regional “security crisis” to delay elections and evade accountability....

When the cease-fire in Gaza went into effect earlier this week, the joy across the conflict line was palpable from 6,000 miles away. Although it is unlikely that complicated three-phase deal will ever be fully implemented, it will save lives, bring hostages home, and provide Palestinians in Gaza wit...

what Israel’s UNRWA ban means for Palestinians, U.S. private security contractors head to Gaza, and an escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo....

This summer, the Nobel laureate Prof Aaron Ciechanover joined a group of prominent Israelis gathered in the ruins of the Nir Oz kibbutz to demand a hostage release and ceasefire deal. ...

In response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing he would shut down Al Jazeera in Israel after the Israeli Knesset passed a bill authorizing him to do so, PEN America issued the following statement...

Irwin Cotler, now Canada’s Justice Minister, then a law professor at McGill University, argued, “human rights has emerged as the secular religion of our time, as an organizing idiom of the contemporary political culture...

Several of Europe's largest financial firms have scaled down their links to Israeli companies or those with ties to the country, a Reuters analysis of filings shows, as pressure from activists and governments on Tel Aviv grows to end its war on Gaza. ...