Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian police, activists clash on women’s day

Reuters: Iranian police clashed on Thursday with scores of rights activists who gathered in front of parliament to celebrate International Women's Day, one of...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian women struggle for equality

BBC News: In the days before International Women's Day, 33 women were arrested in Tehran for peacefully protesting outside a court building. Thirty of...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s fundamentalists push for segregation on campus

The Guardian: Religious fundamentalists in Iran are demanding separate university classes for men and women in a drive to impose puritanical Islamic values on...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Girls as young as 9 living in the streets in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 – Girls as young as nine are running away from their homes and living on the streets in...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s female racing champion barred from defending title

The Guardian: She was the speed queen of the racetrack who became a feminist icon after triumphing over an all-male field to become Iran's...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Dozens of women arrested in protest in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 19 – Hundreds of Iranian women gathered outside the offices of the judiciary in Tehran on Tuesday in protest...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Male teachers to be barred from all-girls schools in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 19 – Iran’s Ministry of Education has issued a decree banning all male teachers from teaching in all-girls schools,...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran’s hard line begins at home

TIME: When Behnaz Mohsenian, 29, started English lessons at Tehran's Najdad Institute this spring, the 15 men and women in her class studied grammar...
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Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

Yahgoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner and supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held in Lakan Prison...
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Widespread Student Protests Across the Country; Opposition to Educational Policies

Student protests against the educational policies of the Iranian regime, particularly the issue of the mandatory impact of grade...
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Expansion of Rent-Seeking and Corruption in Iran’s Car Industry

Car imports and the crises resulting from them have become one of the major issues in Iran today. In...

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From Inflation to Food Insecurity, Iran Is Moving Toward a Hidden Famine

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Steel Workers in Sistan and Baluchestan Face Uncertainty as Iran’s Economy Continues its Downspiral

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32-year-old man hanged in public in northern Iran

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EU states agree in principle to sanction Iran central bank

Reuters: European Union governments have agreed in principle to...
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