Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran won’t let women watch the world cup

The Daily Beast: Fans are experiencing further obstacles to watching the sports they love. Cinema owners had hoped to arrange screenings for this year’s World...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s population drive worries women’s rights, health advocates

Reuters: Iran's supreme leader has called for a population increase, in an edict likely to restrict access to contraception that critics fear could damage...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran Facebook page wants women lashed for unveiled photographs

Bloomberg: A Facebook page seeks lashes and imprisonment for Iranian women who posted photographs of themselves without headscarves on the social media website. The anonymous page...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

When freedom is the right to stay under wraps

New York Times:  Cars honked frantically, their drivers in despair as separate columns of Iranian men and women in black chadors fist-pumped their way through...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran gets seat on U.N. body that presses for women’s rights

Washington Times: Iran won seats on five subcommittees of the U.N. Economic and Social Council earlier this week, including one to the Commission on the...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran rape victim bound for gallows unless she changes story

The Telegraph: An Iranian rape victim has been offered the option of avoiding the gallows if she complies with terms for forgiveness set by the...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari at imminent danger of execution

Death Penalty News: Reports from Iran indicate that the death sentence of the 26 year old Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari can be carried out...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian rights lawyer summoned by Intelligence Ministry

Reuters: Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been summoned by Iran's Intelligence Ministry for questioning, her husband's Facebook page said, days after a video...
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Iran: No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign Marks 133rd Week

Reports indicate that on Tuesday, August 11, the No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign entered its 133rd week, with thousands...
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British Couple Imprisoned in Iran End Hunger Strike After Nearly Three Months

The family of Lindsay and Craig Foreman, a British couple imprisoned in Iran, announced that the two had ended...
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How the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Impacts the Livelihoods of the Iranian People

Military tensions and the Iranian regime's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz have pushed the livelihoods of people inside...

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