Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 09 - On the event of International Women's Day, 1,000 women staged a demonstration at central Tehran’s Laleh Park yesterday...

Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 02 – At least 54 Iranian girls and young women, between the ages of 16 and 25, are sold on...

Iran Focus: Paris, Feb. 26 – An international conference entitled, "United against Fundamentalism and for Equality," was held in Paris yesterday on the initiative...

BBC: A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex. The court dismissed the girl's claim...

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 16 – Women and teenage girls comprise the majority of people in Iran's Ilam province (western Iran) who committed suicide...

Reuters: Iran's 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Saturday complained that the conservative judiciary had summoned her to court again without saying...

AFP: Iran's judiciary has shut down a cosmetics and personal hygiene exhibition in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad after a judge apparently decided...

AFP: The UN's top official on women's rights chastised Iran on Sunday over what she said were abuses and discrimination built in to the...