Alliance of Iranian Women
Source: Amnesty International UK At least six cases since April, including one where state broadcaster forcibly filmed detained mother and daughter Tactics come in response to popular ‘White Wednesdays’ movement against discriminatory veiling...
Islamic headscarf: Iran’s promotional video divides opinion Source: BBCNews As part of Hijab week in Iran, a video endorsed by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps promoting the Islamic headscarf has created a social media stir....
By Noor Pahlavi Source: AlArabiya Public floggings, economic disempowerment, social stigmatization: These are daily reminders to the women of my country, Iran, that in the eyes of their government they are lesser. Every...
ITALY — A young actress plays the role of Giorgia, 10, forced to marry Paolo, 47, during a happening organised by Amnesty International to denounce child marriage, on October 27, 2016 in Rome. Source:...
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by Admin · Published April 18, 2019 · Last modified April 20, 2019
Source: Amnesty International Iranian authorities must stop harassing, arresting and imprisoning women’s rights defenders peacefully protesting against Iran’s degrading and discriminatory forced veiling laws, and release those detained on this basis immediately...
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by Admin · Published April 17, 2019 · Last modified April 20, 2019
Source: BBC An Iranian who became the first woman from her country to contest an official boxing match says she has cancelled her return home from France after hearing a warrant had...
By Julien Pretot Source: Reuters ROYAN, France – Two years after a clandestine impromptu training session on the hills of Tehran, Sadaf Khadem will become the first Iranian woman to contest an official...
Source: Amnesty International Before they even reach adulthood, Iran is ending their lives. There are scores of young offenders on death row in Iran, and the authorities are continuing to sentence them to death. Girls...
Source: RadioFarda Ahmad Alamolhoda, the ultraconservative Friday Prayer leader of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, says some people are trying to undermine the importance of compulsory hijab, the head to toe cover for women. Speaking during...
By RICK GLADSTONEJAN. 25, 2016 Iran is one of the leading executioners of juvenile offenders, despite its improved legal protections for children and a pledge more than two decades ago to end the death penalty for...
Source: Amnesty International UK At least six cases since April, including one where state broadcaster forcibly filmed detained mother […]
Islamic headscarf: Iran’s promotional video divides opinion Source: BBCNews As part of Hijab week in Iran, a video endorsed by the […]
By Noor Pahlavi Source: AlArabiya Public floggings, economic disempowerment, social stigmatization: These are daily reminders to the women of […]
Source: Amnesty International UK At least six cases since April, including one where state broadcaster forcibly filmed detained mother […]
Islamic headscarf: Iran’s promotional video divides opinion Source: BBCNews As part of Hijab week in Iran, a video endorsed by the […]
Source: Amnesty International Imagine that you are a woman leading a relatively normal life. You take the metro or bus […]
Women and children are properties of men. The value of a woman’s life is one half of […]
By Banafsheh Zand Source: PJMedia Today is International Women’s Day, and Iranian women will be on the streets demanding […]
Society for the Freedom of Women and Secret Society of Women were the first to be formed in 1907 […]
In the late 1800’s Iranian women were the main force behind the constitutional movement and the subsequent revolution. The Qajar […]