UN experts and 400 prominent women have urged Iran not to execute Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old electrical engineer and women's ...

Live music is blaring on the streets of Tehran, women are ditching their mandatory hijabs and young people are dancing in ...

"Criminalising women's activism for gender equality and treating such expression as evidence of armed rebellion constitutes a grave form of gender discrimination," UN special rapporteurs, working ...

A report by rights group HRANA reveals that at least 1,922 people were executed in Iran in 2025, a sharp rise from the ...

A large group of influential women from around the world as well as UN experts have issued separate statements urging Iran to ...

Tabari was convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Rasht in October on the grounds of armed rebellion, in an online trial that lasted less than ten minutes.

Four Nobel laureates and several former heads of state are among the more than 400 prominent women who have signed a letter ...

Saudi Arabia Chairs UN Women’s Rights Commission  Despite its abysmal record on women’s rights, Saudi Arabia chaired the 2025 ...

In this week’s newsletter: human stories of the climate crisis; an investigation into EU-funded migrant abuse; and Afghanistan’s women under the Taliban ...

Aided by her mother, Mahtab Amiri, who coordinated her escape, she left the country with Erfaan and was driven to Iran. From ...

After the 9/11 attacks, Arabs and Muslims became the villains in many American films and TV shows. The ethnic background of ...

India faces a strategic dilemma in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Recognition risks legitimising extremism, while engagement helps counter China-Pakistan influence.