As the U.S. and its world partners race to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, women and children in the Islamic republic struggle under harsh, discriminatory laws despite numerous calls for reform from human rights groups and the international community. Last year, several women in the Iranian city of Isfahan were severely burned in […]
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Women Continue to be Kept Outside Sports Stadiums
Despite two major wins for Iran’s volleyball team and the anticipation over the sensitive upcoming game with the US volleyball team, the ban on women attending stadium events in Iran may result in denying Iran to be host of the games this Friday and Sunday, as warned by the international volleyball federation, FIVB. Iran […]
Minister announces persistence of ban on women in stadiums
Iran’s interior minister says there has been no change to the ban on women entering stadiums to watch sports events and the prohibition will be enforced. ISNA reported on Monday June 16 that according to Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, no new directives have been issued regarding women attending sports events in stadiums, and the authorities […]
Yarn factory closure throws 100 more women out of work
One hundred workers have been laid off from the Acryl Top Factory in Behshahr and every one of them was a woman.ILNA reports that the Acryl Top factory in Mazandaran Province produced various kinds of yarn and thread. All of the workers reportedly had significant seniority and have now been referred to collect employment […]
Female activists meet to protest Mohammadi’s arrest, women’s problems
In an initiative by the Association of Women Citizens, a group of Iranian women calling themselves the “Friends of Nargess Mohammadi” gathered at the Tehran home of the prominent human rights activist to express their concern about her health in prison.The Feminist School website reported on Wednesday May 22 that a number of prominent […]
Worsening Conditions for Women in Iran Begin to Draw Attention
Rouhani and Other Administration Officials Speak Out against Discrimination Analysis– Almost two years after his 2013 election, President Hassan Rouhani and his Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, spoke up against discrimination against women this week, in the face of steadily deteriorating conditions for women in Iran. “The government considers it […]
Prominent Activists Optimistic on End of Ban on Women at Sports Stadiums
Two prominent Iranian human rights defenders have expressed optimism over the recent moves in Iran to amend the laws banning women from sports stadiums, but note that real and permanent changes will require time and sustained citizen support for its realization. The moves to end the ban follow an international outcry over Iran’s refusal […]
Secretary-General’s March 2015 report on human rights in Iran
Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2015. Read the Report *******International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran – In his interim report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran […]
Sotoudeh: Acid Attacks on Women Show “Plan to Promote Virtue” Must Stop
Following a spate of violent attacks on women in Iran, in which unidentified perpetrators have thrown acid in the faces of women in the city of Isfahan for their alleged improper hijab (the Islamic dress code for women), prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that […]
Thousands Of Iranians Protest Acid Attacks
Thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in Tehran and Isfahan against several recent acid attacks against women accused of not being “properly veiled.” Hundreds gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran, while eyewitnesses said a few thousand came to the Justice Ministry building in Isfahan, the central-western city where the acid attacks took […]