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Tag: women’s rights
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A Week of Femicide and Acid Attacks Across Iran
In less than a week, seven women have been murdered and one woman has been the victim of an acid attack in Iran, according…
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Rural Iranian Women’s Employment: Work or Exploitation?
In Iran, traditional culture still dominates social relations in rural areas, city outskirts, and immigrant settlements. This culture places women’s employment under the control…
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Iran Wants to Ban Women From Football Stadiums to Protect their ‘Dignity’
Following a series of abusive incidents by male spectators towards women during Iran’s Premier League football matches, the Ministry of Sports is reportedly considering…
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Sedigheh Vasmaghi: An Imprisoned Female Islamic Jurist Defying Iran’s Supreme Leader for Women’s Rights
Sedigheh Vasmaghi, an Iranian female Islamic Jurist who questioned Ali Khamenei’s interpretations of hijab and women’s rights, is currently experiencing vision loss and heart…
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Sepidar Prison in Ahwaz: The Tragic Situation of Children in the Women’s Ward
Hamed Farmand – Sepidar Prison in Ahwaz is not only one of Iran’s substandard prisons where the rights of prisoners are not observed, but…
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Iran Protests Continue: Sanandaj Under Attack
Protests in Iran against the government’s killing of Mahsa Amini continue; the cities of Sanandaj, Saqqez, Kermanshah, Tehran, Kazerun, Marivan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Marvdasht, Tabriz,…
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Iran Protests: Student Demonstrations in over 100 Iran Universities
On October 1, while the protests over the government killing of Mahsa Amini entered their third week, students in dozens of universities refused to…
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I will bloom from my body’s wounds
Feminists and LGBTQIA+ activists will take to the streets in solidarity with the protests in Iran on Sunday, October 2, around the world.
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Opinion: The Price of Being a Woman in Iran
“The misogynistic government policies that have forcibly unveiled and veiled Iranian women for generations have shaped the collective life experiences that have unified women…
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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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Nationwide Protests In Iran – In Photos
The protests against the government murder of Mahsa Amini started on Friday, September 16. Protests began to take shape just after the medical team…
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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.