Tag: compulsory hijab

Iran’s quiet reactivation of compulsory hijab mechanisms—morality police, service denial, and informal bill enforcement—deepens state control over women, violates core ...

Annual data from Iranian rights groups reveal at least 110 femicides, 63 rapes, 180 “honor killings” and expanding structural, legal ...

Two Policemen were supposed to be fired for a recent brutal arrest of a young woman in Tehran. But the ...

Yasmine Mohammed is an Arab-Canadian human rights activist, college instructor and writer. Yasmine was raised in a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim ...

Head of Iranian Parliament’s Women's Faction reports that their faction has been investigating the protests against compulsory hijab in Iran ...

Efforts by women’s rights activists to stage demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Labour on International Women’s Day was ...

The interview you are about to read speaks to Setareh, one of the Women of Enghlab Street, a name dedicated ...

by: Parvaneh Vahidmanesh What does March 8 mean for Iranian women? What is their share of the decades of struggle ...