More Iranian women are choosing to forgo the country's mandatory hijab. This shift was unthinkable just a few years ago in ...

Iranian police arrested 300 people at a party in the central city of Semnan because the event allowed the mixing of men and women. Colonel Ali Mirahmadi, deputy commander of Semnan Province's law ...

A coalition of women and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Front Line Defenders, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition ...

United Nations member states have removed Iran from a key UN women's rights group just months after it joined. The unusual reversal comes as Iran is rattled by an ongoing protest movement sparked by ...

LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Iranian women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi will help shine a light on the plight of the country's women, her former ...

It has been one year since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after morality police arrested her in Tehran. Her death unleashed decades of pent-up anger over Iran’s clerical rule and sparked the country’s ...

As the referee's whistle signalled the start of the match, two five-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely ...

Of the many paradoxes presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the most confounding remains its stubborn preoccupation with regulating women. The 1979 revolution that brought fundamentalist clerics ...

Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...