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8 mar 2021 · Farsi GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 each year and continuing entrenched discrimination in law and practice.
13 wrz 2024 · The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and girls and crush remaining initiatives of women’s activism, UN Human Rights Council-appointed...
Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the country’s legal system has imposed a conservative interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, which directly affects women’s rights in several areas. The World Economic Forum 's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Iran 140, out of 144 countries, for gender parity.
In recent cases, the judiciary has mandated psychological treatment for at least two actresses convicted of hijab non-compliance, a move protested by Iranian mental health associations.
6 paź 2023 · Tehran rejects accusations of discrimination, but these are some of the ways it treats women, according to 2021 and 2023 reports by the U.N. Human Rights Council special rapporteur on Iran...
26 cze 2023 · Iranian women experience discrimination in law and in practice in ways that deeply impact their lives, particularly with regard to marriage, divorce and custody issues. Post-1979 compulsory...
25 paź 2023 · Despite this, women and girls in Iran have continued to bravely defy the Islamic Republic’s discriminatory and degrading compulsory veiling laws. For daring to do so, they have faced severe punishments and violation of their human rights.
