Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

The Iranian government's most prevalent form of violence against women is the mandatory hijab. In this respect, 100 percent of women forced to veil...

Female peddlers in Iran are facing humiliation and the risk of death to make ends meet in these trying times. Battling poverty and institutionalized misogyny,...

The Iranian government has banned a female doctor, who used to care for 180 to 200 coronavirus (COVID-19) patients daily, from working because her husband filed a complaint.  The doctor...

October 15 is the International Day of Rural Women, designed to draw attention to the plight of these marginalized women and help them get...

On October 8, Iranian authorities finally succumbed to international pleas and released human rights defender Narges Mohammadi. Since 2015, Mohammadi was unjustly detained for...

Looking at the faces of the victims of acid attacks in Iran under the clerical rule is a diagram of the oppression of Iranian...

A common job in the impoverished region of western Iran is a porter or someone who carries heavy loads on their backs through treacherous...

By Jubin Katiraie The health of three Iranian female political prisoners - Nasrin Sotoudeh, Fatemeh Mosanna, and Zeinab Jalalian – held in solitary confinement in...