Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, a prominent women’s rights advocate and journalist, was arrested on ...

Despite Iraqi women having more parliamentary seats, they lack real influence as they struggle against political & social ...

Verisheh Moradi, a member of the Community of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) who previously fought against the ...

Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentence of Kurdish women’s rights activist Wrisha (Varisheh) Moradi due to legal ...

Al-Hol’s director Jihan Hanan said 18 women and children "of various nationalities, including Russian" attempted to escape ...

Forged during the Syrian war, Rojava’s experiment in radical self-government offers a lens for examining how the left ...

How a forgotten hellhole in Syria impacts millions of people in the UK - IN FOCUS: As a damning new report on Britain’s ...

Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

UNHCR honours three remarkable individuals and one organization dedicated to helping refugees, internally displaced people, war-affected communities and others in Mexico, Iraq, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

GENEVA - Four extraordinary individuals and a front-line national organization, who have demonstrated inspirational courage ...