Economy

War and economic crisis eliminate women’s jobs first, deepening poverty, financial dependence, and exposure to domestic violence. War has a...

Women seasonal agricultural workers in Kurdistan in Iran are paid less than men, then return home to a second shift...

A diary from war-struck Tehran, where bombs, checkpoints, grief, and ordinary acts of care fold into the struggle to keep...

The war has deepened Iran’s housing emergency: soaring rents, stalled construction, failed state schemes, and millions pushed into residential insecurity....

Low-cost drones and missiles are eroding the U.S.-led maritime order, allowing smaller actors to threaten chokepoints and global trade. The...

A maritime blockade in the Red Sea threatens oil flows, shipping routes, fertiliser supplies, and global food security. How can...

Hospitals become sites of care, exhaustion, repression, and resistance as nurses work through uprising, war, and economic collapse. “We were...

Recent military tensions and oil pollution are endangering the Persian Gulf’s fragile ecosystem, poisoning coastal dolphins’ lungs and making hawksbill...

Before the bombs fell, millions in Iran were already being pushed below survival by sanctions, inflation, austerity, and collapsing wages....

Roya and Zahra’s stories show how poverty, war, inflation, internet shutdowns, and neglect turn disability into structural exclusion in Iran....