Iran: “Today’s Women” magazine suspended
According to reports by the state-run Mehr news agency, the Committee on Media Oversight has suspended...
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Iran: Girl student expelled from school for undergoing ‘kidney transplant’
According to Dariush Arman, a member of Iran Kidney Patients Association, after enduring two years of...
Iran Singing, cosmetology banned for women under mullahs’ regime!
The state-run ‘Roze Nour’ website wrote a piece on two other jobs and social activities banned...
Iran: 48-year-old woman executed on drug-related charges
Three people were recently hanged in Rasht Central Prison according to a report from Golestan Province’s...
Rules on crackdown of 9-year old girl in northern Iran
The Iranian regime has launched a new wave of despicable regulations for elementary school children, to...
Iran: Judgment in the shortest time
A few days ago Hakimeh Shokri, a political prisoner, civil rights activist, and defender of families...
Iran: Opinion of 5 senior mullahs on women’s presence in sports stadiums
The Youth Journalist Club associated to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards asked the opinion of five senior...
Iran: Women addiction, death rates increasing under mullahs’ rule
As reported by the state-run IRNA news agency, 1,325,000 people have been identified as drug addicts...
Iran: New threat made by regime’s Interior Minister on hijab
Abdulreza Rahmani, the mullahs’ Interior Minister stated in a press conference, the advances made on imposing...
Iran: Dilemma of unemployment among college graduates
According to state-run Mehr, 5.7 million of the educated youth practically play no role in the...
The Gendered Dimensions of the Water Crisis in Iran: Impacts on Women’s Health, Livelihoods, and Security
How Iranian Women Shoulder the Heavy Burden of a Deepening Crisis Download Italian Version The water crisis in Iran has...
The Failure of Iran’s Population Growth Law Despite the Repression of Women
A Glance at a Costly and Ineffective Policy The “Youthful Population Law” in Iran vs. Women’s Human Rights Following a...
Widowed Women in Iran: Main Problems and Challenges
Widowed Women in Iran, Alone and Oppressed in the Shadow of Discrimination In the Iranian legal system, where gender-based discrimination...
55% of Child Abuse Cases in Iran Involve Young Girls
A Disturbing Rise in Child Abuse and the Vulnerability of Young Girls A largely overlooked aspect of systemic violence in...
Child Marriage in Iran: An Institutionalized Violence Against the Girl Child
Child marriage in Iran remains legal and widespread. The forced and early marriage of girls is one of the most...
Safe Shelters: The Deep Gap Between the Reality of Domestic Violence and Support Services for Abused Women in Iran
Safe Shelters in Iran are temporary passages that, although seemingly symbols of refuge and support, in practice reflect the inefficiency...
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