Iran: A female nurse dies due to work pressure
A young nurse, Mahdieh Rezaii, 28, went into cardiac arrest during her work shift and died...
Women's News
Iran: Security guards raid women’s ward in Evin
Security guards raided the women's ward in Evin on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, to inspect the...
Iran: Judiciary official threatens to indict Atena Daemi
The Prosecutor's representative threatened political prisoner Atena Daemi that he would accuse her of committing a...
Iran: Interior Minister confirms ban on women’s participation in politics
The Minister of Interior Abdulreza Rahmani Fazli paid a visit to the Election Headquarters on April...
Iran: A letter to Zeinab Jalalian on her 11th year of incarceration
Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee wrote a letter to Zeinab Jalalian on the eleventh year of...
Iran: An internet activist woman was arrested
A 45-year-old woman was arrested by the Cyber Police (FATA) in northern Iranian Gilan Province for...
Iran: 16-year-old girl sets herself on fire
A young girl by the name of Elaheh, 16, set herself on fire in Tehran's Jungle...
Iran: I would rather be a protesting woman in jail – Nargess Mohammadi
In the wake of implementation of the new stage of her jail sentence lasting 10 years,...
Iran: Young woman committed fatal suicide
Shima Adak, a 24-year-old woman from Marivan, committed suicide on April 9, 2017, and died. Her...
Iran: Nargess Mohammadi deprived of furlough
Judiciary officials refused to grant furlough to human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi who is presently detained...
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...
The Ineffectiveness of Population Policies in Iran: Economy, Aging, and the Overlooked Rights of Women
Abstract: A compilation of official data, media reports, and disclosures published in April, May, and June 2026 demonstrates that Iran...
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...
Parisa Kamali: “If Today I Stand on the Right Side of History, I Owe It to the PMOI”
Audio message from PMOI political prisoner Parisa Kamali on the anniversary of the founding of the People's Mojahedin Organization of...
Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi: We are Generation Z—Anti-Dictatorship, and Opposed to Both the Shah and the Mullahs
Message from PMOI political prisoners Forough Taghipour and Arghavan Fallahi from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on the anniversary of the...
Women, Resistance, Freedom: The Unbroken Lineage from Camp Ashraf to Iran’s Gen-Z Revolution
When an early morning raid struck Camp Ashraf at 5:00 AM on September 1, 2013, the goal of Iran’s clerical...
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