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12 gru 2023 · Over the past 20 years, the fight to improve and protect women’s rights in Iraq has been incredibly challenging for me and my colleagues at the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). Every month has brought new obstacles, including security threats, legal intimidation, media attacks and social media stigmatization.
Iranian authorities brutally cracked down on the “woman, life, freedom” protests sparked after the September 2022 death in morality police custody of Mahsa Jina Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman,...
25 lis 2024 · A striking feature of the current widespread and continuing protests in Iran, which are pushing the country to the brink of revolution, is they were triggered by violence against a woman. It was women who came out into the streets with the slogan, “Women, Life, Freedom.”
16 wrz 2024 · We urge Iranian authorities to: Immediately and unconditionally release all the women human rights defenders imprisoned in Iran, as well as all other human rights defenders. End the...
26 cze 2023 · Understanding why requires a closer look at how the broader struggle of women for equal rights in Iran has evolved over the years. Charting the course of women's right movement in...
21 lut 2023 · The deciding vote on the matter in the UN Economic and Social Council followed an American diplomatic campaign to see Iran stripped of its capacity to derive legitimacy from its participation in the world’s foremost body on women’s rights while leading a violent crackdown on a women-led protest movement within its own borders.
7 lis 2022 · The head of Iran’s Office for Women and Family Affairs ruled out Iran ever signing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
