The awarding of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to the 17-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai honors students around the world who take great risks to learn in the face of adversity and conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. Yousafzai is a tenacious advocate for the rights of all children, and girls in particular, to go […]
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Prosecutor Prevented Political Prisoners in Ward 350 from Education
Nine political prisoners in ward 350 of Evin prison (including four Gonabadi Dervishes) have been banned from participate in university exam under the order of Tehran Prosecutor General.According to HRANA News Agency, Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand, Omid Koukabi, Farshid Yadollahi, Amir Eslami, Omid Behroozi, Afshin Karampour, Mehdi Doulati, Mehdi Fazelifar and Sina Azimi have been […]
141,000 kids are deprived of education in Iran
The head of the statistics and ICT department of education ministry says “There are 141 thousand children between the ages 6 and 11 who are not attending schools in Iran.” According to a report of Kaleme website, Yousef Nouri said “The intention of statistics is to extract the total number of the ones deprived […]
The right to education, a forgotten right
The right to education, one of the rights noted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has been violated by the Iranian government for years. Shortly after the 1997 revolution, the group that had taken over the government decided to filter the dissident professors and students out of universities. This […]
Ministry of Education Has Criminal Responsibility
Lawyers Comment on Shinabad Incident Iranian news agencies reported that on Friday December 28th Saria Rasoolzadeh, another victim of the fire at a girls school died of burn wounds, following the earlier death of schoolgirl Siran Yeganeh. Last week, a fire broke out in the Shinabad village near the Kurdish-populated […]
Ensure Equal Access to Higher Education
The Iranian government should immediately reverse policies that place unnecessary restrictions on academic freedom for university students, in particular women.
Joint Statement on the Right to Education and Academic Freedom in Iran
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joins 16 other student and human rights organizations in a statement expressing deep concern for the violation of the right to education and academic freedom in Iran.
End Education Apartheid
A student group active in defending the rights of those students who are denied higher education has criticized the policies of Iran’s minister of science research and technology Kamran Daneshjoo and declared that Ahmadinejad’s administration is pursuing a second cultural revolution by practicing “educational apartheid.”
Iranian advocacy council: “For the 6th consecutive year, student activists are banned from pursuing higher education”
The Advocacy Council for the Right to Education’s Declaration on *Starred StudentsFor the sixth consecutive year, [Iranian authorities] have barred students from pursuing higher education.
Qom women’s affairs cleric says equal education for girls and boys will lead to change in their sexual identity
The head of the Women’s Observation and Research affiliated with the Central Management of the Sister’s Religious Seminaries said, “The existence of an equal educational system for girls and boys will lead to a change in their sexual identity”.