Tag: Oppression on Women

The coronavirus crisis in Iran and the incompetence of the government is causing additional pressure for female heads of the household because, due to the sexist nature of the state laws, their jobs are less secure in the first place.

A man who attacked a woman in Iran in an alleged row over her veil was humiliated when she fought back in front of passers-by. Footage shows the bearded man harassing the woman on a pavement before kicking her into the road – only for her to grapple with him and push him against a wall

Declaring March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1977 by the United Nations was one of the most valuable achievements of human history. This great adoption showed the international community intended to pass away all discrimination based on instinctive abilities, which denied people achieved qualifications

The Iranian Sports Federation is forcing female ice climber, Zeinab Kobra Mosavi, not to take part in the championships

Forty-one years have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Before ascending to power and while in Paris, the republic’s first supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini had insisted on equality among all Iranians in his many speeches

A Tehran Police official on Friday said indecently dressed mannequins that weaken “the culture of modesty and hijab” and “promote immorality” will be removed by the police from shop windows

The Iranian female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour who was sacked from the national team for boldly removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow, has said that hijab is “limitation” not “protection” as official regime propaganda claims

The number of women and youth working as porters (or back carriers) has increased dramatically in the Iranian border provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, and Kermanshah

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