Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran opposition leader speaks at International Women’s Day conference in Berlin

On Saturday, March 7, a grand event was held in Berlin titled “For Tolerance and Equality against Fundamentalism and Misogyny” in the light of...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s Future will be Shaped by Women

Source: American ThinkerBy: Amir BasiriRecent events have once again drawn attention to women’s rights abuses in Iran, a phenomenon that has been institutionalized in...
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The brave face of opposition in Iran

Source: THE HILL By: Soona Samsami In recent weeks, over two dozen women across Iran have been subjected to a spate of hideous acid...
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The Women Of Iran Can Bring About Change–If Not Suppressed

Source: Forbes.comBy: Amir Basiri, Guest writerIn Iran, a recent spate of acid attacks against women and the execution of a young woman charged with...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

British-Iranian woman imprisoned for trying to watch men’s volleyball game in Tehran 

The Independent: A British woman has been in an Iranian prison for more than two months for trying to watch a men’s volleyball match. Ghoncheh Ghavami,...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s crackdown on women

FrontPage Magazine: Under the new Islamist state, the Ayatollahs and ruling clerics utilized methods in order to control and exercise power over women to gradually...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet quoted by Obama, dies at age 87

Bloomberg: Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, whose politically defiant writing was mentioned by U.S. President Barack Obama in a message aimed at improving relations with the...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian Stanford professor first woman to win top maths prize

Reuters: Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.The professor...
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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced that between July 28 and August 3, at least 26...
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