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Category: Woman, Life, Freedom
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From Demanding Rights to Exercising Them: Four Years After Woman, Life, Freedom
Four years after Jina Amini’s death, women are no longer only demanding rights from the state. Increasingly, they are exercising them in everyday life.…
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Revisiting Woman, Life, Freedom: Achievements, Challenges, and Life Beyond Protest
Four years on, Woman, Life, Freedom has moved from the streets into everyday life, even as repression, war, economic crisis, and new forms of…
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A Sexual Harassment Case at the University of Kurdistan: Collective Awareness as a Legacy of the Jina Uprising
Women students transformed individual testimony into collective action, challenging unequal power relations and institutional impunity in the aftermath of the Jina uprising. Following the…
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A Field Report from Iran: Nurses Who Carry Life in the Heart of Death
Hospitals become sites of care, exhaustion, repression, and resistance as nurses work through uprising, war, and economic collapse. “We were still in shock from…
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A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi: What It Means to Die of Grief
A tribute to the Iranian artist whose work turned revolution, exile, and women’s defiance into a universal language of memory. Marjane Satrapi, creator of…
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The War Comes Home: A Field Report on Domestic Violence
As war, unemployment, and inflation deepen Iran’s crisis, working-class women and children absorb its violence inside the home. In the months during which Iran’s…
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Celebrity, Power, and Sexual Violence: Why the Pejman Jamshidi Case Matters Beyond the Courtroom
A high-profile rape accusation has become a test of power, gender, silence, and women’s refusal to remain silent in Iran. Pejman Jamshidi is one…
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Women First to Lose Jobs After the War: An Interview with Iranian Feminist and Sociologist Atefeh Rangriz
Rangriz explains how wartime layoffs and structural neglect push women out of work, deepening dependence, poverty, and domestic violence. The Iranian Labour News Agency…
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How Iran’s State Uses Women in Nighttime Rallies: An Interview with Azadeh Kian
Women’s growing presence in state-sponsored rallies has become a contested political and gendered field, exposing both social diversity and state mobilization strategies. As women’s…
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The Islamic Republic’s Ongoing War on Kurdish Camps: Why Do These Attacks Not Stop?
Despite a 40-day war and a ceasefire between Iran, the United States, and Israel, Iranian drone attacks on Kurdish parties in Iraqi Kurdistan continue.…
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Iranian Women’s Agency Amid the Drums of War
A postwar political transition will not guarantee a better future for women unless their demands are explicitly named and placed at the center. This…
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Thirteen Political Prisoners Executed in Forty Days of War, More Face Death Sentences
At least fourteen political prisoners were executed amid war and securitization, while more protesters—from Bukan to Mashhad—remain under sentence of death or at imminent…