Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be Murdered February 10, 2022 - Mona “Ghazal” Heydari was 17 years old when her husband, Sajjad ...
By the age of eleven, “Raha” already had seven children. Married off to a man five times her age, she was in poor health when her situation was accidentally discovered in the Iranian city ...
UN Press Release, GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, ...
EU Countries Withdraw from Iran Business Forum in Protest Over Execution France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of Rouhollah Zam December 14, 2020—Major European countries have pulled out of a planned Europe-Iran Business Forum that was ...
Child Marriages Rise Four-Fold as Parents Marry Off Their Children to Receive Loans Easily available loans provided by state-owned banks to cover marriage expenses are resulting in a huge surge in child marriages in Iran—a country that already ...
Teachers, Families and Students Struggle without Needed Technology in Iran’s Poorer Regions A new online schooling program created by the government to allow virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic will effectively remain a luxury for the well-off in ...
On the International Day of the Girl Child, All States Urged to Address Needs of Girl Children Child Marriage, Lack of Protection against Abuse, Juvenile Executions Key Issues in Iran October 11, 2019—On the International Day of the ...
Iranian-British anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has had no contact with his family since ...
July 16, 2019—At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights violations, including ...
News of an 11-year-old girl in the Iranian city of Ilam being repeatedly raped after being illegally married off to a man four times her age has renewed protests by some members of Parliament against the law that allows child marriage. The child, referred to by ...
Two years after it was introduced to Iran’s Parliament, the parliamentary Committee for Judicial and Legal Affairs has rejected a bill to ban marriage for girls under the age of 13. Civil rights advocates responded to the ...
Legislation Banning Marriages of Girls Under the Age of 13 Remains Stalled A proposed bill seeking to ban child marriage in Iran continues to face stiff opposition amongst conservative lawmakers and religious figures, and remains stalled ...
Police forces simulate a child abuse case. Attorney: Social Welfare Organizations Lack Sufficient Resources Despite ongoing reports of disturbing cases of child abuse, Iran’s Parliament has failed to ratify a bill on the protection of ...
Activist Denied Care Despite Medical Examiner’s Recommendation Already serving a seven-year prison sentence, imprisoned children’s rights activist Atena Daemi has been issued a new charge and is being ...
Hundreds of Iranian women and children’s rights advocates in Iran are urging Parliament to prohibit underage marriage in the country. “In defense of children’s human rights, we call for an end to ...
The family of a nine-year-old girl from a village in northwestern Iran has vowed to pursue legal action against the well-connected male teacher who sexually molested her. ...
Fifty high school students were married in a mass ceremony in the Iranian city of Parsian, according to local news reports. But city officials have been downplaying the event and distancing themselves from ...
Official Iranian government statistics show that tens of thousands of girls under the age of 15 are married off by their families each year in Iran. The numbers may actually even be quite higher. Many families in ...
