Beirut — More than 300,000 people have been displaced within less than 100 hours in Lebanon following a wave of Israeli airstrikes and evacuation orders issued across southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, and other populated areas, according to Lebanese authorities.

Baghdad, March 6, 2026 - Women Journalists Without Chains expresses its profound shock and unequivocal condemnation of the assassination of prominent Iraqi human rights activist and women’s rights defender Yanar Mohammed, Co-founder and Director of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI).

February 28, 2026 – Women Journalists Without Chains has expressed grave concern over the large-scale military escalation launched on Saturday by United States and Israeli forces against multiple targets inside the Islamic Republic of Iran,

Authorities in Morocco have intensified arrests and prosecutions of young activists, imposing severe prison sentences and pursuing charges that directly affect the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

Berlin – February 16, 2026 – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman, president of Women Journalists Without Chains, was honored with the Guardian of Democracy Award during an official ceremony organized by the Global Forum in Berlin.

The Houthi militia continues to impose an escalating pattern of repression against women in areas under its control through abductions, enforced disappearances, torture, and other forms of cruel and degrading treatment.

A series of deliberate attacks on humanitarian convoys, displaced civilians, and medical facilities in Sudan’s North and South Kordofan states represent flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes under international legal standards.

Amman, Jordan – February 9, 2026 — Women Journalists Without Chains has warned that recent remarks by Jordan’s Interior Minister acknowledging severe prison overcrowding highlight the urgent need for comprehensive reform of detention policies.

Sana’a, Yemen — Houthi authorities continue to hold prominent Yemeni human rights lawyer Abdulmajid Sabra in enforced disappearance, more than four months after his abduction from his office in the capital on September 25, 2025,

Beirut, January 31, 2026 – Lebanese journalist and Al-Manar TV presenter Ali Nour al-Din was killed on Monday, January 26, when an Israeli airstrike targeted a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Geneva — Women Journalists Without Chains has released its 2025 annual report, “The Architecture of Repression: From Atrocities to Authoritarian Legality,” presenting a comprehensive assessment of the deteriorating human rights situation across the Middle East and North Africa.

An alarming collapse in press and media freedoms is unfolding in Yemen, where journalism has entered one of the most lethal and repressive periods in its modern history,