Iran's Women

Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that ...

Unveiling Resistance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Iran

The sweeping public protests that erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in custody of Iran's morality police ...

Iran: Two years after 'Woman Life Freedom' uprising, impunity for ...

People in Iran continue to endure the devastating consequences of the authorities' brutal crackdown on the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising amid systematic ...

Iran intensifying efforts to repress women and girls on second ...

GENEVA – Two years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began following the unlawful death in custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, ...

Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution

Women in Iran began agitating for increased rights in the late 19th Century. Their efforts were abetted by liberalization under the first Shah of Iran and ...

Women's rights in Iran - Wikipedia

Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the country's legal system has imposed a conservative interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, which directly affects ...

Women, Life, Freedom: Iran's Movement for Women's Rights

This conversation, with a range of Columbia experts, explored the unrest in Iran within the broader historical and geo-political context.

Iran - Women Belong Inside, Outside, Everywhere

The people of Iran, led by women and girls, are taking to the streets in response to the recent death of 22-year old Iranian-Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini.

Iran: Repression of women 'intensifying', two years on ... - UN News

The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and girls and crush remaining initiatives of women's activism.

Iranian women and girls face further violations of their rights under ...

If I was still in Iran, leaving the house every day would come with a choice: my bodily autonomy and my freedom, or risk of harassment, ...

Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Country Fact Sheet | UN Women Data Hub

However, work still needs to be done in Iran (Islamic Republic of) to achieve gender equality. As of February 2024, only 5.6% of seats in parliament were held ...

Opinion | A photo that captures the bravery of Iran's women

On Sept. 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman visiting Tehran, was arrested for wearing a hijab that didn't properly cover her ...

WFPG in Support of Iranian Women

Register for our 11/02 panel discussion Women, Life, Freedom: The Protests in Iran here. Featured speakers include Azar Nafisi, Nazila Fathi, and Robin Wright.

Iran's morality police will not 'bother' women, president says - BBC

Iran's new president has said that morality police will no longer "bother" women over the wearing of the mandatory hijab headscarf.

“Women, Life, Freedom” a new revolutionary era in Iran - VIDC

Iran; Justice for Mahsa Amini; Frauen Proteste; Women Protests; Homa Bazafkan; VIDC; Global Dialogue;

One Year On, Iranian Women Are Still Fighting - Time

The Islamic Republic of Iran was built upon bricks of patriarchal misogyny. One of the first acts of the revolution's leader, ...

U.N. Report on Oppression of Women in Iran

Iran has ramped up enforcement of the Islamic dress code in the two years since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman ...

Iran must prioritise women's rights, right to life, and improve ... - ohchr

NEW YORK -- In her first report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of ...

The Young Women Challenging Iran's Regime - Time

Of the many paradoxes presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the most confounding remains its stubborn preoccupation with regulating ...

Iran: Decades of female anger rocks the regime - Chatham House

Behind the current protests convulsing Iran lie years of resistance to the theocracy's repression of women, says Sanam Vakil.