Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran hangs woman for murdering love rival

AFP: Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a love rival, her lawyer told the official IRNA news agency. ...

Ahmadinejad urges girls to marry at 16

AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged young girls to marry at age of 16 in his latest rejection of the country's once effective family...

Iran woman with stoning sentence shown on state TV

AP: Iranian state television has broadcast a purported statement by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in which she calls...

Iran arrests three women lawyers: reports

AFP: Iranian authorities have arrested three female lawyers at an airport in Tehran after they arrived on a flight from Turkey, media reported on...

Iran fails to get seat on UN Women board

AFP: Iran failed in an election on Wednesday to secure a seat on the executive board of the new UN super agency to improve...

Nordic countries make joint appeal over Iran execution

AFP: Five Nordic countries issued a joint appeal to Iran Thursday, calling on the Islamic republic to commute the sentence against a woman condemned...

Iranian’s stoning would be ‘barbarous’: Brazil’s new leader

AFP: Brazil's female president-elect, Dilma Rousseff, said Wednesday she was "totally opposed" to the death-by-stoning sentence ordered for an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani. ...

Canada first lady urges Iran to free woman condemned to die

AFP: Canada's First Lady Maureen Harper on Wednesday condemned Iran's "senseless and continual" disregard for women's rights and called for the release of a...

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Aftermath of the War: Iranian Workers’ Lives in Grip of a Livelihood Crisis

Following the US and Israeli war against Iran’s regime, the impact of the attacks has not been limited to...

The Voice They Could Not Silence: Vahid Bani Amerian’s Final Testament

The executions carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison between March 30 and April 4, 2026, marked another chapter in...

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...

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Children of Iran; The Silent Victims of War

Children do not analyze war; rather, they mainly experience...

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