Iran: Nurses and the sick protest in Mashhad, Tehran
A group of women nurses held a protest gathering in Mashhad, the second largest city of...
Women's News
Iran: Number of women prisoners twice the prisons’ capacity
A state official revealed that the number of women prisoners in Iran are twice the prisons’...
Iran: Young woman, student of architecture summoned to court
Sepideh Farhan, one of the students arrested during Iran uprising in January, has been summoned to...
Iran: Women partake in protests in Tehran, Rasht, Zanjan, etc.
Women participated in at least six protests on May 7 and 8, 2018. A large group...
Iran: Two women commit suicide in Ilam and Tehran
Two more women committed suicide in recent days. Maryam Afrasiabi, 55 from Malekshahi, committed suicide in...
Iran: 37,000 marriage of girl children under 15 years in one year
Some 37,000 girl children got married while under 15 years of age last year. This was...
Iran: Girl, 15, suffers GI bleeding after 75 days of interrogation
Ma’edeh Shabani Nejad, 15, is suffering from pain and bleeding of stomach after 75 days of...
Iran: Student protests in Tehran, Tabriz
A group of young women and men, students of Tehran's Melli (aka Beheshti) University, staged a...
Iran: Raheleh Rahemipour faces second trial
Raheleh Rahemipour faced another trial on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Ms. Rahemipour is charged with "spreading...
Iran: 18-year-old mother, three highschool girls commit suicide
In the evening of Sunday, May 6, 2018, an 18-year-old woman from Ardebil, northwestern Iran, poisoned...
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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