Two rights advocacy groups report on the occasion of International Mother’s Day that Israel is holding 12 Palestinian mothers in jail who are subject to various kinds of torture and not allowed to meet with their relatives.

A bomb explosion targets a female doctor in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, local officials say, shortly after three female media workers were killed in the city.

A female Palestinian recounts her torture-filled ordeal during some 15 months of imprisonment by the Israeli regime.

Gunmen have shot dead two female supreme court judges during an early morning ambush in Kabul.

A prominent female Saudi activist, who has been jailed in the kingdom since 2018, launches an indefinite hunger strike in protest at her detention conditions.

Female Saudi activist’s health condition is reportedly “extremely” deteriorating in prison since she started a hunger strike to protest not being able to take family visits.

Male suicide rates are at their highest level in two decades and there are fears it will rise still further in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.