Iran

Fifteen female foreign ministers from across the globe will meet on Thursday to discuss the urgency of women’s rights in Iran/

Young Iranian women have always been at the forefront of breaking down social boundaries and taboos, writes Nasim Salehi.

Abir Al-Sahlani has shown her solidarity with women protesting in Iran, using a speech to the European parliament to cut off her hair.

Schoolgirls in Iran have taken to the streets, removing their headscarves and chanting “death to the dictator”

Two women LGBT activists, Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubdar, have been sentenced to death by Iranian judicial authorities.

Demonstrations protesting the deaths of women defying Islamic law in Iran have reached Syria, while Canada places sanctions on Iran.

Another woman defying Iran’s mandatory hijab-wearing laws has reportedly been killed by the Islamic Republic’s security forces.

Iran has freed Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian academic who has been detained in the country for more than two years.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian academic serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran for espionage, has been transferred to one of the worst women’s prisons in the world.

This time last year, on International Women’s Day, Yasaman Aryani and her mum took off their headscarves and walked through a women-only train carriage in Tehran, handing out white flowers.

Yasaman Aryani wanted to make change and ended up being sentenced to 16 years in prison for campaigning against forced veiling.