Despite Abuses and Discrimination, Women Fight for Justice, Equality, and Rights for All March 7, 2022 – On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) celebrates women everywhere who are ...
Citing domestic Islamic religious decrees and common law, Isfahan city prosecutor Ali Isfahani announced on May 14, 2019, a ban on female bicyclists. “Based on fatwas by religious scholars as well as the law, bicycling by women in ...
Every day women in Iran experience discrimination and violence. Some groups are more vulnerable than others. Children, women with disabilities and senior women face extreme violence with little means of seeking legal protections. All branches of the Iranian government are responsible for protecting women's rights. ...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi shared her thoughts on the state of women’s rights in Iran in an interview with ...
Women celebrate their release from Gharchak Prison on March 12. The women who were detained at a women’s rights demonstration in front of the Iranian Labor Ministry in Tehran on March ...
Iranian women protest their country’s hijab law by waving their headscarves in public. Several women protested against ...
On this March 8, 2016, International Women’s Day, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urges all to strive for a world where women everywhere are free from discrimination....
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate and Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, has called on Iranians to hold public rallies on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March, demanding reform of constitutional laws to achieve gender equality. She described her ...
