Iran: pre-selling unborn children
A university professor who slept on the streets for a few nights says infants are sold...
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Iran: Violence against nurses
According to a report published by the state-run media in Iran, most nurses are subject to...
Iran: Research indicates higher addiction among homeless women
Most homeless women are on CRACK and use it by injection, a recent research showed. Such...
Iran: Young women rescued by crowd defending them against arrest
In the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 25, young men and passersby engaged with agents attempting to...
Iran: Closed circuit cameras control female employees of kindergartens
In the guise of monitoring kindergartens for child abuse, the state-run welfare organization is installing closed-circuit...
Iran: Protesting women arrested, 12 of them identified
A group of the women who have staged a sit-in in the Holy Shrine of Hazrat...
Iran: State media depict unrealistic image of Iranian women – researcher charges
In a meeting on women's role in the state-run media, one of the researchers in women's...
Iran: Rouhani’s deputy makes serious confessions
"The unofficial sector of the job market has become feminine, because women are cheap labor force...
Iran: Official admits appointment of female governors has halted
"Initially, there were some good moves in terms of appointment of female governors, but the moves...
Iran: protesting expulsion of 4 nurses in Tehran
The Nurse Society executive boards in Yazd and Khorasan Razavi provinces protested the expulsion of four...
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...
Annual Report 2026: From Protests, to Uprising, and the Role of Iranian Women
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap...
Aziz Rezaei: Mother of Resistance, Teacher of Steadfastness
In the contemporary history of Iran, there are names that live not merely as memories, but as paths. The name...
Iranian Student Recounts Prison Abuse: My Brother Was Tortured before My Eyes
On May 10, 2026, the Daily Mail published an interview with Iranian student Shabnam Madadzadeh, a former political prisoner, member...
The Commercial Complex Death Trap: When Corruption and Rente Burn Iranian Women to Ashes
On the evening of Tuesday, May 5, 2026, the Arghavan commercialcomplex in Shahriar County, west of Tehran, became a death...
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