Read our report on the impact of the internet shutdown in #Iran on women and queer communities.
گزارش ما در مورد تاثیر قطعی اینترنت جهانی در ایران بر زنان و جامعه کوییر را حتما بخوانید.
Over the weekend, reports indicated that the Taliban launched another campaign of fear and intimidation, abducting women, including a pregnant woman, from the streets of Herat under the pretext of enforcing hijab regulations. Here is our explainer:
“The entire Taliban system offers impunity and legalizes violence against women, who can be beaten, imprisoned, and humiliated by the Taliban, by fathers, husbands, or brothers, or by random passersby. If you kill a woman, ‘nothing happens.’” @ZubaidaAKBRenglish.elpais.com/internati…
In our interview, Syrian lawyer and women’s rights defender Amal Naeim shares insights on displacement, human rights violations, accountability, and the urgent need for justice in Syria following the July 2025 violence in Sweida.
femena.net/2026/06/02/amal-n…
7/1 تعرب فيمينا عن حزنها العميق عقب التأكيدات الرسمية الأخيرة بشأن قضية الاختفاء القسري للدكتورة رانيا العباسي وأطفالها الستة، الذين أفيد باحتجازهم في دمشق عام 2013 على يد قوات الأمن السورية، ومنذ ذلك الحين ما زالوا في عداد المفقودين.
1/8 Femena expresses its profound grief following recent official confirmations regarding the enforced disappearance of Dr. Rania al-Abbasi and her six children, who were reportedly detained in Damascus in 2013 by Syrian security forces and have remained missing ever since.
6/7 ومواصلة الجهود من أجل الحقيقة والعدالة لجميع ضحايا الاختفاء القسري في سوريا. ويشمل ذلك القضايا المنسوبة إلى قوات الحكومة السورية (سابقًا في عهد نظام الأسد) وكذلك إلى أطراف أخرى في النزاع.
1/8 Femena expresses its profound grief following recent official confirmations regarding the enforced disappearance of Dr. Rania al-Abbasi and her six children, who were reportedly detained in Damascus in 2013 by Syrian security forces and have remained missing ever since.
8/8 We stand in solidarity with the family of Dr. al-Abbasi and with all families across Syria and the wider region seeking truth, justice, and reparations.