January 16th, 2024 
Roya Heshmati has stated that she had been lashed 74 times because of a social media post she made in April in which she could be seen without a hijab. The lashes to Roya Heshmati’s body have triggered renewed condemnation […]
Category: News about Women
Women’s activism in Iran continues, despite street protests dying down in face of state repression
by Mona Tajali, Associate Professor of International Relations and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Agnes Scott College * Large-scale protests that erupted in 2022 across Iran, centering on women’s rights, captured the world’s attention. Iranians peacefully protested in the streets of places […]
‘Women are defined as second-class citizens at the mercy of men’
GITA AZADI of the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women talks to the Star about Iran’s famous Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the misogyny of Islamist rule, and what women worldwide can do to show solidarity THE Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women […]
Iran: Compulsory veiling bill a despicable assault on rights of women and girls
Reacting to the news that Iran’s parliament has passed a new bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women’s and girls’ rights as well as increasing prison terms and fines for defying Iran’s degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws, […]
Iranian Teenager Reported Brain Dead by State Media
What happened to Armita Geravand, who entered a subway car and was carried out minutes later, is unclear. But her case evoked parallels to that of Mahsa Amini. By Emma Bubola and Leily Nikounazar Oct. 23, 2023 Armita Geravand, the Iranian girl who […]
Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody in Iran, awarded EU human rights prize
Story by By Associated Press Reporters Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union (EU)’s top human rights […]
Iran arrests 12 female activists in crackdown ahead of protest anniversary
Iran on Wednesday detained at least 12 female activists in what rights groups say is an escalating campaign to deter protests to mark the anniversary of the “woman, life, freedom” uprising that swept the country last year. The protest movement […]
Women in the crucial struggle for human rights in Iran
Iran: the people vs. dictatorship, for peace and popular sovereignty Speech by Azar Sepehr, 16 May 2023 Working class organisations and trade unions have just celebrated international workers’ day, at a time when the chasm between the rights and privileges […]
Repeal of all laws that undermine women’s human rights!
DOIW condemns the killing of Mahsa Amini and those who have protested her death in detention Statement of the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women – 23rd September 2022: Victory to the united struggle of the brave women and men of Iran; […]
Message to the International Women’s Day Gathering – 08.03.2022
No to Violence Against Women In Iran, 43 years of theocratic rule, intent on justifying its medieval outlook, passing misogynistic laws, and then normalising their practice in the society, has brought with it violence in many forms. Legislation that degrades […]
