Posts Tagged: Iran women’s rights
New Report Reveals Rampant Human Rights Abuses in Iran as Activists Warn of Another Wave of Mass Executions
A new report reveals the widespread scale of human rights abuses in Iran over the past year, as activists warn the regime may carry out...
The Anti-Israel Mob Never Mentions Women’s Rights in Israel — Compared to the Middle East
In parts of the Middle East, women still live in deeply patriarchal, often brutal systems. Changes exist more on paper than in practice. Power remains...
Mahsa Amini’s Death in Iran Custody Was ‘Unlawful’, Says UN Mission
A fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations said on Monday that the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of Iran's morality police was "unlawful"...
Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Iran's jailed women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government...
‘Iranian Women Already Enjoy Their Rights,’ President’s Wife Claims as Tehran Regime Introduces Stricter Dress Code
The wife of Iran's hardline president has waxed lyrically about the rights she claims are enjoyed by Iranian women in an interview with a US...
No Tears for Iran
JNS.org - There is nothing more useless than tears. Nothing gives more satisfaction to those who caused them. In their sadism, the tears of others...
Has Iran Successfully Suppressed the ‘Hijab Protest’?
JNS.org - Iran is tensely approaching the one-year anniversary of the tragic death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman died in hospital on Sept....
Iran’s State-Sponsored Misogyny: A Regime Built on Brutal Violence Against Women
The Islamic regime in Iran is notorious not only for its systematic discrimination against women and other gender minorities, but also for using brutal violence...
Protests in Iran: A Middle Eastern Déjà Vu
A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon,...
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Must Take the Side of the Iranian Protesters
JNS.org - In the midst of a sea of attacks that have branded her a neo-fascist, Giorgia Meloni—who is poised to become Italy’s first female...
Obama, Biden, and the Real ‘War on Women’ in Iran. Can the US Change Course?
JNS.org - Apparently, there are some mistakes from which the US foreign-policy establishment thinks it can learn. In 2009, when Iranian protesters thronged the streets...
The Ayatollahs’ War on Women
JNS.org - President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are recalibrating, reassessing and reviewing military cooperation (including sale of arms) with pro-US Saudi...
Human Rights Group Blasts Iran for Drafting Laws That ‘Reduce Women to Baby-Making Machines’
TIME - Amnesty International has slammed Iran for proposing two draft laws aimed at boosting the country's population, saying the legislating would "reduce Iranian women...
Iranian Woman Protests Discrimination With Subway Dance
NBC News - Dancing in front of passengers on a subway takes a lot of guts whoever and wherever you are — but its particularly...
