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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