December 18, 2017

Iran’s Judiciary Should Free Labor Activist Reza Shahabi Who Suffered Stroke

Update: Reza Shahabi was released on March 19, 2018. December 19, 2017—The Iranian judiciary should immediately free ailing trade unionist Reza Shahabi, who recently suffered a stroke in Rajaee Shahr Prison, and allow him to receive full ...

July 14, 2016

New Law Reduces Employment Prospects for Women in Iran

Iran’s Parliament has ratified an amended law that reduces the working hours of female employees with certain family obligations by eight hours per ...

June 6, 2016

New Iranian Bill Aims to Keep Women Out of Workforce

A bill that would reduce the working hours of female employees, which was passed in the last days of Iran’s outgoing Parliament on May 10, 2016, is as an attempt by the state ...

October 12, 2015

Cartoon 124: Women, Men, and Permission to Travel

Cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the discriminatory laws that allow Iranian men immense control over their wives' work and travel rights. In a highly publicized recent case, Niloufar Ardalan, the captain of Iranian women’s National ...

February 20, 2009

Two Women Labor Activists Flogged; Their Crime: Celebrating May Day

(20 February 2009) Two Iranian women labor activists, convicted for participating in May Day celebrations, have been punished by flogging, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today. According to local sources, on 18 February, Sussan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi were flogged inside the ...