Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran launches sex-segregated parks

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Iran will soon launch new women’s only parks in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran....

Amnesty: Iran to stone woman to death by end of month

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 27 – A young woman is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery, according to the international human...

Iran: Lawyer denounces woman’s stoning

AKI: An Iranian woman convicted of killing her husband and of having extramarital sex has been sentenced to death by stoning. The sentence of...

Iran’s fashion police put on a show of chadors to stem west’s cultural invasion

The Guardian: They are unlikely to grace any catwalk or adorn the figures of supermodels, but the latest in Islamic fashions got top billing...

Woman sentenced to stoning in Iran – report

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 – An Iranian woman has been sentenced to death by stoning, according to a Kurdish human rights group....

Rights group blasts crackdown on women’s protest in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 16 – The international human rights groups Amnesty International condemned a crackdown by Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) on a...

At least 400 arrested in women’s demo – report

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 13 – At least 400 people were arrested during a peaceful anti-government demonstration by women in Tehran on Monday,...

Demonstration by women in Iran capital – photo report 2

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 13 – State Security Forces (SSF) cracked down on a peaceful demonstration by thousands of Iranian women in Tehran....

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