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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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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Iran’s Regime Rejects Retrial Request by Protester Sentenced to Death

On Wednesday, September 2, human rights media outlets reported the continued detention and interrogation of opponents of Iran's regime,...

Corruption in Iran’s Ports Reaches the Regime’s Parliament

The corruption case in Iran’s ports has once again become one of the controversial issues in the regime’s parliament....

Heavy Collapse in Iranian Workers’ Purchasing Power Over the Past 10 Years

In recent years, and particularly in the months following the recent war, workers’ “real wages” in Iran have experienced...

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The Broken Chain of Healthcare in Iran’s Most Deprived Province

In recent days, the death of a teenager once...

10 Protesters Sentenced to Death in Isfahan Shohada Square Case

The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Isfahan...

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