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Decades-old sexual trauma is being unearthed in a society that rarely speaks about it but can change come to fruition?
Tehran, Iran – Countless Iranians have taken to social media in recent weeks to recount their experiences of sexual abuse, bringing to the fore a topic that remained taboo for (...)
The Observatory has been informed by the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) about the conviction and sentencing of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer and 2012 laureate of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize, to 33 years in jail and 148 lashes.
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Interview of Fariba by Shirin Shalkooi, Brussels February 2019. Can you introduce yourself ?
I’m Fariba, I’m a communist women and a member of the 8 March Women’s Organisation (Iran-Afghanistan) . It is an independent and democratic organisation with a revolutionary approach. By « democratic », (...)
In conversation with the Iranian journalist about her autobiography, the problems plaguing Iran, her fight against the oppression of women in the country and more.
Women protest against compulsory hijab in Iran. Credit: Facebook/My Stealthy Freedom
For anyone unfamiliar with Iran, journalist (...)
Masih Alinejad has paid a high price for letting her hair down and criticising her government. She’s been sentenced to prison, fled her native Iran and is unable to see her family. Here, she reveals why all she wants is to give women the choice to wear the hijab or not
Veil of tears: many (...)
“The Free Union of Iranian Workers considers itself part of the movement for liberation from gender discrimination and any type of inequality in the social life of human beings. Thus we condemn the attacks on justice-seeking and freedom-loving women and men in front of the Ministry of Labor. (...)
We the signatories of this statement, refuse to separate our opposition to U.S. imperialism and any imperialist war drive on Iran, from our support for the progressive and revolutionary social justice struggles of Iranian women, workers and oppressed minorities against their regime.
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These are incredibly courageous acts in a country in which the hijab is compulsory, and where women who do not wear their headscarves properly can be arrested, assaulted, face fines, lashes and imprisonment. . . These acts of protest are part of a broader wave of mass protests for social (...)
The protests have coincided with demonstrations against economic conditions in eastern Iran
Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto (...)
The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a woman who was arrested on 27 December 2017 in Tehran for engaging in a peaceful protest against compulsory veiling (hijab), Amnesty International said today.
The organization renewed its calls on the Iranian authorities to (...)
Amnesty International Report 2016/17
The authorities renewed their crackdown on women human rights defenders and increasingly likened any collective initiative relating to feminism and women’s rights to criminal activity. Women’s rights activists who had campaigned for greater representation of (...)
Women ’arrested for riding bicycles’ in Iran and made to sign pledge never to cycle in public again. Female cyclists have previously been arrested for flouting the country’s modesty laws.
A group of women has reportedly been arrested for riding bicycles in Iran and made to sign pledges not to (...)
Statement by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
London (07. 07. 16) – In recent days, after the arrest of renowned anthropologist and Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodfar one, a number of Iranian media outlets said to be linked with the Revolutionary Guards have published reports, (...)
London / Montreal (25 June 2016) – More than two weeks have passed since Professor Homa Hoodfar’s arrest on 6 June 2016. Since that time, she has been held in Evin prison and denied any direct contact with her family. Her lawyer has also been prohibited from seeing her or accessing her case file. (...)
Homa Hoodfar, a Concordia University professor known for her research on women in Islamic societies, is being detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, the same facility where Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was detained. Kazemi died in 2003 after being raped and tortured by Iranian (...)
Women of Tehran Symphony Orchestra
The Tehran Symphony Orchestra cancelled a performance that had been planned for the closing ceremony of an international wrestling event on November 29, 2015, after the authorities objected to the presence of women musicians among the orchestra members.
The (...)
Women in Iran could face significant restrictions on their use of contraceptives and be further excluded from the labour market unless they have had a child if two proposed laws are approved, says a new report by Amnesty International published today. : Attacks on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive (...)
To mark International Women’s Day Justice for Iran (JFI) has published a major report on history and politics of enforced hijab under the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Thirty-five Years of Forced Hijab: The Widespread and Systematic Violation of Women’s Rights in Iran points out over the past ten (...)
The Guardian Council has now approved the bill passed by the Islamic regime of Iran’s Majlis or parliament for the ‘protection’ of children and young people , which includes a clause allowing men to marry their adopted daughters with the permission of a court. The bill had previously been denied (...)
Since she won the price in October and EU representatives asked Iranian authorities to let them meet her, the campaign against her has intensified.
The imprisoned Iranian lawyer and women’s rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun a hunger strike since October 17 in Evin prison. This in (...)
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