Today, on this year’s International Women’s Day, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release “Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women”, a 60+ page legal commentary from Iranian lawyer Mohammad Hossein Nayyeri. In his commentary, Nayyeri analyzes the impact of discriminatory laws, as written and as applied, on […]
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Iran To Extend Gender Segregation To School Textbooks
Iran’s Ministry of Education has announced it will soon publish separate school textbooks for boys and girls, creating another area of gender segregation in the Islamic republic.
Single-gender hospitals coming to Iranian provinces
Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi has declared that every Iranian province must establish at least one single-gender hospital.
Iran To Extend Gender Segregation To Preschools
Boys and girls at Iranian preschools are to be separated in the latest instance of gender segregation in the Islamic republic, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Gender segregation underway in 20 Iranian universities
Twenty Iranian universities have announced that in the coming academic year, 40 departments will begin accepting only one gender of student.