Tag: Oppression on Women

An Iranian chess referee was accused of violating her country’s strict Islamic dress code after images emerged that appeared to show her not wearing a headscarf, known as a hijab

In Iran, laws and legal codes are largely based on gender discrimination and therefore do not represent the best interests of women as half of the population; nor do they provide them with proper protection in male-dominated Iranian society. Women commit crimes in every society

Almost half the population of the planet are women. However, we have long witnessed that their rights have been violated in different ways and they have been subjected to lack of care and affection

The Iranian regime suppresses the street protests, which erupted in November 2019 because of the rise in fuel prices, by all means

The city of Qom, the Shi’ite religious capital of Iran south of Tehran, is at the top of the table for female drug addicts in the country, a local website Qom Farda cited an official at the Islamic Republic President’s office, as saying

On December 25, 2019, Abdolreza Karimi, the head of the National Organization of Civil Registry of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province confirmed registering marriages of 48 girls under the age of 13 and a 16-year old boy in this province in the past nine months; 45 girls were 13 years old and three of them are 12 years old

Misogyny is the most important feature of the mullahs’ ruling system in Iran and the heart of Khomeini’s ideology. Therefore, Iranian women are subject to double exploitation. Now imagine how oppressed women prisoners will be in this system. The idea is shocking

A woman who defended herself against rape was hanged this week in Iran, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Permission is a handmaid’s tale taken straight from the headlines. In 2015, Niloufar Ardalan was captain of the Iranian women’s indoor football team, which had just reached the Asian Championships final in Malaysia

A state-run news agency in Iran has reported that more than a third of women with higher education in the Kurdistan region are unemployed. The region’s Director General of Women and Family Affairs, Leila Ajhir, said that the figure is 38 percent

News broke today inside Iran that a disabled veteran of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) set himself on fire last week, and died, in the city of Qom. The man was reported as being 45% physically handicapped