Women candidates for the Israeli Knesset are often drowned out in the never-ending debate over how to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians. They are expected, however, to pick up few seats in today’s election.
A scholar says recent research may explain why two Palestinian women refused to carry out their orders to kill and be killed. Also, U.S. Senate committee approves U.N. women’s rights treaty.
At the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, an Israeli and a Palestinian-American filmmaker screen their visions of women’s lives in the conflict zone.
Women-led peace initiatives are fading as Palestinian women join the ranks of suicide bombers and the death toll among women on both sides of the conflict rises dramatically.
While gunshots echo in the streets in a political struggle, Palestinian women are engaged in their own personal, and revolutionary, struggle for economic independence and freedom from domestic violence. Photojournalist JoMarie Fecci reports.
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