Iranian lawmakers have pushed through changes to the dowry law, further weakening women's rights and aggravating gender ...

UN experts and a group of about 400 influential women from around the world have called on Iran not to execute women's rights activist Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, the BBC reported on Wednesday.Tabari, a ...

In the ongoing struggle for democracy in Iran, women have emerged as some of the most influential and unifying voices, championing secularism, equality and inclusive governance. Over the past 150 ...

Reza Khandan was arrested in December 2024 for supporting women’s rights in Iran, and creating thousands of homemade buttons that said, “I Oppose the Mandatory Hijab.” He had previously been ...

Shima Oliaee sits down to discuss her new ESPN podcast, "Pink Card." Iranian women were banned from the national soccer stadium and all live soccer games for more than 40 years, but that didn't stop ...

German-Iranian women’s rights activist Nahid Taghavi returned to Germany after being held in arbitrary detention in Iran for more than four years. Her release, announced by her family and Amnesty ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for ...

Iran was still reeling from news in late January that a 17-year-old girl was fatally stabbed by her father in the country's northwest when news broke that another 17-year-old was shot by her father ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a secular, ...

She was re-arrested on Friday - having been released late last year - after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow ...

Iranian human rights attorney and activist Nasrin Satoudeh holds a photo of her husband outside Tehran's Evin Prison, where he is an inmate. Reza Khandan was taken into custody in December on charges ...