On April 22nd, a number of child laborers along with members of the Association to Defend Child Laborers visited labor activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh and his hospitalized son Nima at Mahak Hospital in Tehran. According to CHRR, members of the association and a number of child laborers from the Nemat Abad area went to the […]
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Syria child trauma ‘appalling’ – Save the Children
Children in Syria are subjected to “appalling” torture, imprisonment and abduction, and these atrocities should be better documented, a report by British charity Save the Children says.
Mother Tongue: A Human, Child and Woman’s Right
Women and children human rights activists agree on the deep bond between a woman’s right and those of the child. This connection is so tight that one cannot be clearly studied without the other. Many of the reasons and acts that destroy the rights of a child also exist in the discrimination […]
Child brides marry clutching their toys
In the first quarter of the current Persian year, 7440 marriages involving brides not yet 15 were registered in Iran. Thousands attended their wedding ceremonies still hugging their toys.
Child abuse and domestic violence dominate emergency statistics
Last year over 92,000 calls to the Iranian emergency services were concerned with child abuse or domestic violence against women.
Iran seeks to legalese marriage for girls under 10
The legal affairs committee of the Majles, the Iranian parliament, has told the press that they regard the law that prohibits girls below the age of 10 from being married off to be ‘un-Islamic and illegal’. According to recently released statistics, in the past few weeks over 75 female children under 10 were […]
Street-children and child-labourers run high risk of contracting AIDS
“More than 32% percent of street-children and child-labourers are sexually abused, and most suffer from physical and psychological disorders,”
Wife and child of political prisoner abducted
The Baran website reports that Iranian security forces have abducted the wife and daughter of political prisoner Mehdi Khazali.
Child marriages on the rise in Mashhad
Ibrahim Zadeh, the head of the Rashtkhar Judiciary said that everyday 2 to 3 adolescence warrants [warrants which authorize that a child has reached puberty for marriage] are issued by the Judiciary.
Official Child Laborers More Than 600,000 in Iran
Official reports from Iran indicate that there are more than 600,000 Iranian children who have left school in order to enter the job market. As a result, these children are abused in a variety of ways by their families and profiteers.