Iranian intelligence forces arrested four women from Kurdistan province following their attendance at an International Women's Day event in Sanandaj days prior, a human rights watchdog reported on ...

In the absence of critical discourse on marriage-class-sexuality, patriarchal relations, i.e. kinship, to a man remain the primary option for accessing resources for women.

Form Content In this article for International Women's Day,  Alexis Boddy - JURIST UK correspondent, reports on the Equality ...

As the list of those persecuted in the country grows, it is obvious that Iran’s leadership is systemically opposed to musical ...

Though it often addresses men, the Quran has much to say about women: from marriage and divorce to property rights.

A new global report analyzing sex discrimination in laws reveals that while some commendable gains have been achieved in strengthening legal protections for women and girls over the past five years, ...

The grim reality of gender-based atrocities pervades every corner of our world, evincing in abhorrent forms such as sexual violence, dowry deaths, domestic violence, female foeticide and infanticide, ...

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef ( More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct an untitled ...

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct the untitled ...

When a girl enters a family, she becomes Na Mahram (non-familial) when she reaches puberty unless the oath of making Mahram, or marriage is taken." Inside Iran Shiva Dolatabadi, head of Iran's society ...

International Women's Day was celebrated the world over on March 8, but have women really been liberated? I belong to ...