Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran sentences woman to death

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 02 – Iran’s State Supreme Court sentenced a woman to death, a state-run daily reported on Sunday. Iran...

Iran’s women lose jobs despite competence

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – Women have been finding it evermore difficult to find employment in Iran and their social rights have...

Iran says women unfit to manage restaurants

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 09 – Female restaurant managers in Iran will be required to name a man as the person who will...

Iran to speed up flogging of women for “bad” veil

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres...

Iran police to step up crackdown on women

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – The commander of Iran’s State Security Forces in the city of Orumieh, northwest Iran, threatened on Sunday...

Iran’s new sex-segregated park gets underway

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 21 – A new sex-segregated park is under development in the city of Mashad, north-eastern Iran, according to the...

Iran’s new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – The man designated by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Minister of Justice vowed on Saturday...

Two out of 3 teens in Iran suffer from depression – report

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 – A scientific study conducted by two independent experts found that 71 percent of teenagers in Iran suffer...

Latest news

How Did Inflation in Iran Become the Most Chronic Structural Crisis?

More than 80 years after World War II, signs of collapse in Iran’s economy are reappearing with the same...

Repression and Human Rights Violations in Iran – April 2026

What distinguishes the pages of Iran’s history at the beginning of 2026 more than ever is the emergence of...

The 119th week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign in 56 prisons

In the 119th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, political prisoners in 56 prisons across Iran once...

Must read

Transfer of a death-row political prisoner to solitary confinement in Urmia, Iran

Punitive transfer of death-row political prisoner Mehrab Abdollahzadeh to...

Iran: Three Young Protesters Executed by the Iranian Regime

In the early hours of Monday, May 3, the...

You might also likeRELATED
Recommended to you

Death toll in Iran quake raised to at least 250

AP: Twin earthquakes in Iran have killed at least...

Iran’s Botched Vaccine Roll-Out

The coronavirus crisis is just getting worse in Iran,...