Iran's civil society has long warned that military aggression would provide a pretext for increased repression. A new wave of detentions, executions & silencing of dissent started with the #IsraeliranWar & intensified since the ceasefire. 🔗Read our report:
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Now, in the face of Israel’s military aggression against Iran, the anti-war voice has grown louder than ever.
#Israel #Iran
🔗Read the full report on our website, highlighting the voices of civil society in Iran opposing war and occupation.
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Since June 13, Israel’s aerial attacks on Iran have turned into a full-scale assault on everyday life. This is not a war on a government. It is a war on a people.
#Israel #Iran #IranUnderAttack
🔗Read the full report:
Six Days That Shattered Lives in Iran:
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Femena condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing attacks, including the targeting of Iranian civilians and infrastructure. Israel's actions in #Gaza , #Lebanon, #Syria, #Yemen & #Iran constitute clear & repeated violations of international law.
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5) Femena urgently calls on Egyptian authorities to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah and ensure the immediate well-being of Leila Soueif. We also call on UK authorities to pressure the Egyptian government to secure his release and to protect Leila Soueif’s life.
4) As of today, Alaa Abd El-Fattah himself has completed 101 days of a hunger strike in solidarity with his mother. Leila Soueif is not only a dedicated activist but also a professor of mathematics at Cairo University, widely respected for her lifelong commitment to human rights.
3) In February, Soueif switched to a partial hunger strike—consuming only 300 liquid calories per day. However, following months of inaction, she returned to a stricter hunger strike, limiting herself to water, black coffee, herbal tea, and salts.
2) Soueif began her hunger strike on September 29, 2024, after Egyptian authorities failed to release her son on his scheduled release date. The delay was due to the authorities' refusal to count the time he had already spent in pre-trial detention.
1) Leila Soueif, prominent Egyptian human and women’s rights activist and mother of jailed activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, has been hospitalized in alarming condition due to dangerously low blood sugar levels following her prolonged hunger strike.
These actions reflect a deliberate effort to strip the people of Afghanistan, especially women and girls, of opportunity, hope, and the possibility of a prosperous future.
This is part of the Taliban’s broader war on education in Afghanistan. Today marks 1,342 days since secondary and high schools were closed to girls.
This week, the Taliban shut down 200 UNICEF-supported community-based education classes in Panjshir province of Afghanistan, depriving nearly 5,000 children of access to education and cutting off income for over 200 teachers.
Femena calls on the international community to strengthen global accountability mechanisms, pursue justice for victims, halt the normalization of the Taliban regime, and pressure the Taliban to end their war on Afghan women.
Despite promises of amnesty, six former officials have been killed, with others abducted or tortured.
The report also documents the forced conversion of at least 50 Ismaili men to the Sunni faith and the killing of 34 civilians, contradicting Taliban claims of peace
The Taliban have carried out arbitrary arrests, public floggings, including of 35 women and 3 girls, and extrajudicial killings. Journalists face harassment, and women are denied healthcare for lacking a male guardian.
UNAMA’s latest report, covering January to March 2025, underscores some of the Taliban’s continued and systematic assault on Afghan women and civil society. Women remain banned from education, employment, public speech, and even praying aloud.
1) Marking World Press Freedom Day, we honor three courageous Afghan women journalists who, in the face of war, censorship, and exile, built independent media platforms to tell the stories that powerful forces tried to erase.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
3) In doing so, they have not only defied repression but redefined what resistance looks like through journalism.
##WorldPressFreedomDay
2) They refused silence in a country where women’s voices have been systematically excluded from public life. Through Zan Times, Rukhshana Media, and Nimrokh Media, they have created powerful spaces to amplify the lives and resistance of Afghan women and marginalized communities.
1) Marking World Press Freedom Day, we honor three courageous Afghan women journalists who, in the face of war, censorship, and exile, built independent media platforms to tell the stories that powerful forces tried to erase.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
3) Today, we mourn their loss, honor their work, and recommit to fighting for a world where no journalist—woman or man—has to choose between truth and survival.
Their voices must never be silenced. Their stories must never be forgotten.
#worldpressfreedomday
2) Despite relentless bombings, direct targeting, and unimaginable personal loss, Gaza's women journalists have persisted, documenting a war that the world must not look away from.
1) On this World Press Freedom Day, we remember and honor the courage of the women journalists in Gaza, who continue to report the truth from one of the most dangerous places in the world. Since Oct 7, 2023, at least 28 women journalists have been killed while covering the war.
The international community must take urgent steps to document these crimes against women, support survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.
We call for an immediate investigation and accountability into this case. Abeda’s death is not an isolated incident. It reflects the Taliban’s ongoing and systematic violence against Afghan women.
Reports indicate that Taliban forces raided Abeda’s home, abducted her father and brother, and confiscated her belongings. Faced with escalating coercion and violence, Abeda took her own life.
Femena strongly condemns the tragic death of Abeda, a teacher who reportedly died by self-immolation after being harassed and threatened with forced marriage to a Taliban member.
Women like Anisha Asadollahi, Sepideh Gholian, Sharifeh Mohammadi, Nasrin Javadi, Nahid Khodajoo, and Reyhaneh Ansari Nejad are not threats—they are voices of justice, dignity, and resistance. On this day, we say their names and demand their freedom.
On this May Day, we remember and stand in solidarity with the women labor rights activists who have been targeted and imprisoned simply for defending workers’ rights or for participating in May Day protests.
#InternationalLaborDay
