Iranian skier Samaneh Beyrami Baher says the country’s women are talented and can achieve great things in sports.

It created opportunities for women to engage more actively in public life, including in education and the workforce. One of the most significant achievements of Iranian women in the post-revolutionary ...

Samaneh Beyrami Baher of Iran completed the women's 5km free cross-country skiing event at the Harbin Asian Winter Games in a ...

When it comes to art corresponding with life, consider the authoritarian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig, written and ...

Mohammadi is a 45-year-old workers’ rights activist from Mianeh in Eastern Azerbaijan who resided in Rasht - before being ...

As women’s right continue to be crushed by the Taliban, a series of solidarity events will be held in Belfast with a theme of ...

In a novel inspired by her own midlife dating experiences, Niloufar Lamakan was keen to defy expectations of age-appropriate ...

And at that point, I thought it would be very interesting to make a film about a family like his, with this profound rift at ...

A look at the future of the Sundance Film Festival and six of the films that stood out in the crowd this year.

'Songs from Inside' is part of the BBC 100 Women series and is available to watch on the BBC World Service YouTube page. To find out more about the other inspiring and influential women on this year's ...

Three men released by Hamas looked like Nazi death-camp survivors. Israel and the United States must not allow the terrorists to survive and thrive.

Israel has condemned the condition of the hostages released on Saturday as a “crime against humanity”, as Benjamin Netanyahu ...