Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

The morality police try to roll back reform amid culture clash in Iran

The Times: As darkness falls the floodlit domes and minarets of the great Jamkaran mosque begin to glow in translucent greens and turquoise. ...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s girl fighter goes for gold

ABC News: She is a real Iranian fighter, fierce and focused on taking down an opponent. At 20 years old, tae kwon do champion...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Amnesty: Iran repressing women’s rights activists

Iran Focus: London, Feb. 28 – A prominent international human rights organisation accused Iran on Thursday of “detaining” and “harassing” activists “working to defend...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

WITNESS: “Hijab problem” sparks police standoff in Tehran

Reuters: Wearing a brightly colored headscarf and high-heeled boots, the woman refused to be bundled into the police van without a fight. By...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran: Father ‘stones 14-year-old daughter to death’

AKI: A man known as Sharif has reportedly stoned his fourteen-year-old daughter to death in southeastern Iran because for allegedly having a relationship with...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran detains two women rights campaigners: activist

Reuters: Iranian police have detained two women's rights campaigners and accused them of spreading propaganda against the Islamic state, a fellow activist said on...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Does Iranian government fear educated women?

RFE/RL: Who’s afraid of girls? The Iranian government, it seems. Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of Iranian girls enrolling...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Amnesty: Two sisters to be stoned to death in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Feb. 08 – The international human rights group Amnesty International warned on Thursday that two sisters, Zohreh and Azar Kabiri-niat, were...
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Iranian Political Prisoners Mark 61st Anniversary of PMOI Resistance

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The U.S. dollar exchange rate in Iran's free market has surpassed 2.8 million rials, while the official rate remains...
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