Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested for defending protesters to mandatory veil
Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested for defending protesters to mandatory veil. In a short telephone call on June...
Women's News
Elimination of images of women led to widespread outrage in Iran
Elimination of images of women, and especially Iranian women not covering their hair, from the state...
Yaresan women brutally beaten up in Qarchak Prison
Yaresan women imprisoned in Qarchak Prison of Varamin were badly beaten up and brutalized on Wednesday,...
Amnesty International calls for immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh
Amnesty International calls for immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh. In its statement issued on June 13,...
Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested
Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested. Ms. Sotoudeh was arrested at home in...
Indian chess master will not go to Iran to protest the compulsory veil
Indian chess master will not go to Iran in protest to the compulsory veil law. Indian...
Kurdish women were banned from wearing traditional dress in public
Kurdish women were banned from wearing traditional dress in public. This was announced by the Security...
Two women were arrested in Mashhad for tattoo training
Two women were arrested in Mashhad for tattoo training. The Public Security Police of Khorasan announced...
Women’s participation in protests in Shiraz, Borazjan was remarkable
Women's participation in protests in Shiraz and Borazjan was described as remarkable. On Monday, June 11,...
Iranian women’s rowing team exercizes in black water
Iranian women's rowing team exercizes in black water. Yeganeh Yaghoutpour, one of the members of the...
Sign our Statement to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi
Statement Calling for Immediate Action to Halt the Death Sentence of 25-Year-Old Political Prisoner Arghavan Fallahi We express our profound...
Crushed by Design: Structural Crises and Inequitable Policies Push Female-Headed Households to the Edge
Introduction Life for the Iranian people under the religious dictatorship is fraught with hardship and peril from every perspective. Whether...
A Report to CSW70: Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law
Structural Inequality and State-Sanctioned Oppression of Women Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law” is the title of the NCRI Women’s Committee’s...
JINNEWS: An Account of Women Prisoners’ Resistance in Iran Amid Repression and Discrimination
Turkey’s JINNEWS, one of the region’s well-known news outlets covering women’s issues and human rights, published a report on June...
Iran’s Escalating Water Crisis: Energy Imbalance, Popular Protests, and the Role of Women
The Iran water crisis has transcended a mere climatic challenge, evolving into a structural catastrophe marked by severe ecosystem destruction...
Day 2 of Free Iran 2026: Broad Support for 10-point plan and Criticism of Western Appeasement
On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the second day of the “Free Iran 2026 – Supporting the Democratic Alternative” conference was...
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