Iran is intensifying its use of technological devices such as drones, surveillance cameras, and facial recognition systems to enforce hijab laws in the ...

Amendments have been made to Iraq’s controversial Personal Status Law. However, despite some improvements, these amendments ultimately fail to protect women’s equal rights. ...

25-11-2024 Roxie Burton Women’s Rights Researcher, Global Human Rights Defence The Iranian state has spoken of its plans to open treatment clinics for ...

30-07-2024 G.F. Middle East and Human Rights Researcher Global Human Rights Defence   In 2024, nearly half of the world’s population (over seventy ...

04-08-2024 G.F. Middle East and Human Rights Researcher Global Human Rights Defence   This year, 2024, we remember the 10th anniversary of the ...

06-09-2024 G.F. Middle East and Human Rights Researcher Global Human Rights Defence It has been 17 months since clashes between the Sudan Armed ...

02-09-2024 Anne-Marie Leal Women’s Rights Researcher, Global Human Rights Defence. At the end of August 2024, a new “vice and virtue” law was ...

19-08-2024 Hannah Wohlbold Women’s Rights Researcher, Global Human Rights Defence.   A highly controversial draft law in Iraq proposes to amend the country’s ...

02-08-2024 Nil Başgezer Women’s Rights Researcher  Global Human Rights Defence Tarık Kanyılmaz, who threatened the woman he was in the process of divorcing ...

02-08-2024 Nil Başgezer Women’s Rights Researcher  Global Human Rights Defence Gökmen K., who was arrested after being caught red-handed while sexually abusing his ...