Iran: Female student deprived from continuing her education
Afzaneh Bayazidi, a Kurdish female student from Payame Noor University in Bukan city who was formerly...
Women's News
Nearly 10% of women addicted to drugs in Iran are between 20 and 32
Zahra Bonianyan, advisor to women and the head of the Headquarters Fighting Narcotics for women and...
Iran: A woman set fire on herself in front of a security forces building in Mobarakeh
At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 1, a middle-aged woman set fire to herself in the...
Iran: Wife of Bahai prisoner is arrested
Intelligence agents in the city of Gorgan have arrested Mozhde Zohuri in her home. They searched...
Iran: Qarchak Varamin prison running without hot water for the past few months
Qarchak Varamin, a detention center for women, has been running without hot water for the past...
Angry students in Shin Abad gathered to protest the Iranian regime’s inaction
According to reports from from Tehran, 40 girls injured in the Piranshahr's famous Shin Abad's school...
Smuggling Iranian girls continues
December 03, 2013 - Head of the immigration police verified the “smuggling of Iranian girls to...
Iran: Rate of women addicted to drugs has risen to 205 times in the last year and a half
December 3, 2013 - The Interior Minister of the clerical regime acknowledged the spread of addiction...
Maryam Shafi Pour’s Second Trial
Sources have reported that the health of jailed activist Maryam Shafipour – held behind bars in...
Iran: Kobra Rahman Poor – I’ve been executed time and again
Kobra Rahman Poor, a woman confined 13 years ago charged with murder spent 13 years in...
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...
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists: A Cry for Justice and Freedom in Iran
November 2 – International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Every year on November 2, the world stands...
The Son of Zahra Tabari told The Sun: My hero mum is not afraid to die
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 – The Sun, the British daily, published an exclusive interview with Soroush Sammak, 35, the son...
Maryam Rajavi trailblazing the road to gender parity in a free Iran
Maryam Rajavi trailblazing the road to gender parity in a free Iran October 22, marks the anniversary of the announcement...
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