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, ...
June 26, 2019 — In response to soaring tensions between Iran and the United States, 116 Iranian human rights defenders and groups based inside and outside the country have signed a statement warning of the “devastating” consequences ...
More than 170 members and supporters of Iran's women's movement have signed a statement strongly opposing sanctions and threats of war on the country. Most of the signatories are based inside Iran, and the statement was originally ...
Iran Only Country in the World That Bans Women From Football Stadiums FIFA Human Rights Body Recommends Using “Existing Leverage” For Iran to Comply With Human Rights Statutes November 27, 2018 – Heeding calls by women’s rights activists inside and ...
Forty civil society organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have signed a letter urging UN member states to support Canada's resolution on human rights in Iran that will be presented to the Third ...
Women’s rights advocate Maryam Azad was arrested by security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on September 25, 2018, after boarding a plane scheduled to fly to Istanbul, a source close to the ...
No Information on Charges or Where Hoda Amid, Najmeh Vahedi or Rezvaneh Mohammadi are Being Held, Families Denied Contact September 11, 2018—The three women’s rights activists arrested by Iran’s security forces since September 1—the lawyer Hoda Amid, the sociologist Najmeh ...
Women’s rights activists Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Tehran on September 1, 2018 and taken to an unknown location, the Center ...
A senior Iranian judiciary official has voiced opposition to legislation against domestic violence which is being revived by President Hassan Rouhani’s government after its first unsuccessful draft in parliament five years ago. According to ...
Women caught with “bad hijabs” in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, will face criminal prosecution and their vehicles will be impounded, warned a local prosecutor on June 27, 2017. Iran’s ...
Hassan Rouhani was re-elected as president of Iran in May 2017 largely on the basis of his support for human rights and Iranians’ perceptions that he would do more to improve civil and political rights in the country than his rivals. He should now deliver ...
In the first press conference of his second presidential term, Rouhani refused to commit to ending the extrajudicial house arrests of three opposition leaders—a pledge he made four years ago ...
A member of the Women’s Citizenship Center, a non-governmental organization in Tehran, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that women’s rights activists are increasingly using their leverage as an important voting block to put ...
Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian elections is an indicator of inequality in ...
Prominent political activist, Azam Taleghani, 72, makes her ...
Iran’s anti-vice squads, also referred to as the morality police, are particularly busy in the hot summer months when Iranian women wear lighter clothes and are less observant of the mandatory hijab. But ...
Iran’s Parliament has ratified an amended law that reduces the working hours of female employees with certain family obligations by eight hours per ...
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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....
Despite assurances by Iranian authorities that they would comply with international rules and allow women to attend the Beach Volleyball World Championship on Kish Island, women are being turned away. Following refusal of authorities to allow female spectators to ...
The Iranian government’s most senior female official plans to take legal action against an extremist publication for comparing her to a prostitute. The weekly Ya Lesarat, the mouthpiece of the ...
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 ...
Husband’s Refusal to Give Consent Kept Her Banned from Leaving Country The captain of the Iranian women’s national Futsal team, Niloufar Ardalan, who was previously banned from leaving the country to ...
Cars driven by women who do not observe the hijab (head covering for women) will be impounded and fines will be imposed, according to strict new regulations by Iran’s police force. In addition, “trusted ...
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 ...
