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THE plight of scores of Palestinian women and girls languishing in Israeli prisons was highlighted yesterday on International Women’s Day.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said 65 female detainees, including 12 minors, were being held in “dire conditions” in Israel’s HaSharon and Damon prisons, where cells are unbearably cold in winter and hot in summer.
The Israeli Prison Service imposes restrictions on the provision of clothes, bedding and shoes, the society said.
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER