Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

9 Iranian female prisoners go on hunger strike

AP: At least nine Iranian women political prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest snap body searches and abuse by prison...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Lift restrictions on women’s education, rights group tells Iran

Reuters: Thirty-six universities across Iran have banned women from 77 different majors, including accounting, counseling, and engineering, for the school year that...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s alarming crackdown on women

New York Post: In “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Azar Nafisi captured perfectly the conflicts facing the Iranian woman under the post-revolutionary regime ...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Universities in Iran put limits on women’s options

New York Times: Thirty-six universities in Iran have banned women from 77 fields of study. The ban, which was first reported Aug. 6 by...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Canada minister’s wife targeted over Iran activism

AFP: The Iranian-born activist wife of Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay has been targeted by what Canadian media describe as offensive Twitter...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran bans women from Euro 2012 screenings

AFP: Women in Iran are being banned from watching live public screenings of Euro 2012 football games because of an "inappropriate" environment...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Ahmadinejad should ‘open nightclubs’: Iran MP jibes

AFP: A hardline Iranian MP on Saturday took a jibe at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for failing to support an Islamic dress code for...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Tehran police in new dress code crackdown

AFP: Police in Tehran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in "vulgar" dress, the city's police ...
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