Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

‘Mother, they’re going to kill me’: Calls for international tribunal into Iran’s ‘illegal’ hanging

Daily Mail: A 23-year-old woman made a frantic phonecall to her mother begging for help before Iran authorities held a rushed execution - disregarding...

Iran hangs young woman for teenage crime she denied

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 1 - A young Iranian woman, who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and...

Rights group urges Iran not to stone women

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 09 - Amnesty International on Monday urged Iran to suspend stoning sentences pending for eight women. Iran FocusLondon, Mar....

Relieving the Iran woman pressure

RFE/RL: An adviser to Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that female engineers can serve society from home. Radio Free Europe /...

Starting at home, Iran’s women fight for rights

New York Times: In a year of marriage, Razieh Qassemi, 19, says she was beaten repeatedly by her husband and his father. Her husband, she...

Lawyer: Iran detains women’s rights activist

AP: A lawyer for an Iranian activist says police detained the woman while she was campaigning for equal marriage rights for women. The...

Iran confirms stoning sentence against adulteress: report

AFP: Iran's supreme court has confirmed a sentence of death by stoning against a woman convicted of adultery in the southern city of Shiraz,...

Iran urged to halt “crackdown” on women activists

Reuters: U.N. human rights investigators called on Iran on Thursday to end what they called a "crackdown" on women's rights activists who have been...

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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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Iran Intensifies Pressure on Families of PMOI Prisoners Amid Expanding Crackdown

Iranian authorities have intensified pressure on the families of...

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

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