This section is updated with news,updates, and articles on one of the main vehicles that effect society in Iran. Women in Iran are the core of positive and progressive change in Iranian society throughout the ages.
It has been set up separately to assist researchers and people who are interested in Iranian woman affairs as a page for direct access to such important topic.
Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh smiles at her home in Tehran on September 18, 2013. (AFP) June 22, 2021 UN human rights experts have condemned the continued imprisonment of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, whose health has “seriously deteriorated” since her arrest three years ago. Iranian authorities have failed to release Sotoudeh despite [...]
Ana Diamond, now a British-Finnish dual national, spent 200 days in solitary confinement aged 19 in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. (Channel 4 News) June 21, 2021 A former Finnish-Iranian dual national who was jailed alongside high-profile British-Iranian prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been offered a scholarship at Oxford University, four years after being released [...]
Reformist figure Faezeh Hashemi in a meeting in Tehran university on Dec 07, 2015. (ILNA) June 21, 2021 Fa'ezeh Hashemi, a well-known Iranian political activist, said that the country's presidential election on Friday was tantamount to a referendum since more than half of the eligible voters refused to go to the ballots. She [...]
Narges Mohammadi is one of Iran's best-known journalists and a defender of women's rights. (AFP) June 18, 2021 Prominent Iranian human rights defender Nargess Mohammadi in an audio message received by Iran International Thursday reported that intelligence ministry agents stopped the vehicles of several activists traveling to meet the family of a detained [...]
Female peddlers are working long hours for little money, but they are desperate to make ends meet through any means as rent and food prices soar. (Supplied) June 17, 2021 Female street vendors are facing harassment – physical, sexual, and psychological – and violence every day on the metro in Tehran because of [...]
Women wearing protective face masks mourn during an annual ceremony commemorating Ashoura at the Saleh shrine in northern Tehran, Iran, Aug. 30, 2020. (AP) June 15, 2021 One of the very destructive phenomena that has become now prevalent in Iran, because of the domination of the reactionary thought of the regime, is violence [...]
Iranian presidential candidates participate in a televised debate in a state-run television studio, in Tehran, Iran, on June 5, 2021. (AP) By Golnaz Mahdavi June 10, 2021 The Guardian Council never endorses women candidates in Iran’s presidential elections, but women are always at the center of the debates – usually as a weapon [...]
A veiled Iranian woman crosses Jomhouri-e-Eslami (Islamic Republic) St. in downtown Tehran on July 30, 2018. (AP) June 9, 2021 Iranian women's poor political representation could be set to worsen under an ultraconservative poised to win next week's presidential election. Ebrahim Raisi, who heads Iran's judiciary, is the clear favorite from an all-male [...]
With more and more Iranian households now in financial trouble, female peddlers have become a common sight on the Tehran metro. (IranWire) June 8, 2021 Despite all the disadvantages, there are at least some upsides to working as a female peddler on the Tehran metro. That is, that you can always seek refuge [...]
Iranian LGBT+ community struggle under the combined weight of expectations from family, society, the law, tradition and religion. (Supplied) By Shaya Goldoust May 28, 2021 "I was born into a religious family, and was 13 or 14 years old when I realized. I don’t know how my family didn’t notice – or maybe [...]
