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

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 ...

More than 50 people were arrested, including five women human rights defenders, while they were taking part in a ...

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 ...

Narges Mohammadi and several other Iranian activists were detained last Friday. She has been beaten, requiring emergency ...

The family of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she was taken to a hospital emergency room twice after ...

Women swaying to dance music at a DJ set, strolling without headscarves through cutting-edge art exhibitions and in coffee ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, one of Iran’s most prominent human rights activists, was rearrested Friday when ...

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