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Tag: women
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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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War and Inflation Push Many Women in Iran Out of Work
As demand for services collapses after the war, many working women in Iran have lost their jobs or face unemployment. With declining demand for…
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Three years of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: A turning point for queer visibility in Iran
Three years after the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, its echoes are still reshaping Iranian politics and identity. For queer Iranians, it was the first…
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An Image’s Tale: In Iran The Police Kill Women’s Freedom
Naziar, one of the young women depicted in the image above, tells Zamaneh: “Simultaneously with Jina’s funeral, we buried our fears at Aychi cemetery…
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Women of Iran’s Evin Prison Raise the Alarm on Climate Change and the Future of Iran
Saturday, April 1, 2023: An open letter from a group of female political prisoners in Evin Prison has reached Zamaneh in which the authors…
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Iran Prison Atlas: Several Hundred Detained in Two Tehran Prisons
Hundreds of protesting citizens have been arrested and kept in Evin and Tehran Central prisons only in Tehran. However, the Atlas of Iranian Prisons…
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Iran Protests: Teacher’s Trade Union and Activists Calls for Strike
Despite the suppression of the last week’s protests and government-imposed Internet interruption, protests in different cities of Iran continued Sunday for the ninth day.
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Hundreds of Academics and Intellectuals In Iran and Across the Globe Voice Support for “Feminist Revolution in Iran”
The authors of the statement say that the demands of the Iranian people are “an end to a theocratic regime, whose multi-faceted violence against…
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“Wake Up, the Sky Is Falling!”: The Unsettling Reversal of Abortion Rights for American Women
We spoke to two American women about Roe vs. Wade. Although they represent a speck of the population, their experiences as women with different…
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Kidnapping Iranian Children for Sex: The Role of Patriarchy and Religion
Child trafficking for sexual exploitation is a reality entangling the poverty and sexual abuse that is taking place under the skin of many Iranian…
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A story from Qarchak prison: the gang that sells girls’ virginity for men’s sexual pleasure
In an interview, Atena Daemi, a children’s rights activist and former political prisoner who was recently released from prison after serving her sentence, told…
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“Fighting Against Forced Hijab Doesn’t Have any Borders” – In Conversation with Yasmine Mohammed
Yasmine Mohammed is an Arab-Canadian human rights activist, college instructor and writer. Yasmine was raised in a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim family in Canada. At…