Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Reuters: Iranian police clashed on Thursday with scores of rights activists who gathered in front of parliament to celebrate International Women's Day, one of...

BBC News: In the days before International Women's Day, 33 women were arrested in Tehran for peacefully protesting outside a court building. Thirty of...

The Guardian: Religious fundamentalists in Iran are demanding separate university classes for men and women in a drive to impose puritanical Islamic values on...

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 – Girls as young as nine are running away from their homes and living on the streets in...

The Guardian: She was the speed queen of the racetrack who became a feminist icon after triumphing over an all-male field to become Iran's...

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 19 – Hundreds of Iranian women gathered outside the offices of the judiciary in Tehran on Tuesday in protest...

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 19 – Iran’s Ministry of Education has issued a decree banning all male teachers from teaching in all-girls schools,...

TIME: When Behnaz Mohsenian, 29, started English lessons at Tehran's Najdad Institute this spring, the 15 men and women in her class studied grammar...