Leadership Human rights advocate and actor Nazanin Boniadi awarded 2023 Sydney Peace Prize Iranian-born human rights advocate and actor Nazanin Boniadi has been awarded the 2023 Sydney Peace Prize.
News & Views Iran imposes harsher measures including surveillance of women to enforce hijab wearing Iran has installed cameras in public places to identify and catch women who violate the country’s extremist dress code.
News & Views Mother and daughter arrested for not wearing hijab in Iran after being attacked by man A viral video from Iran showed an incident where two women are attacked by a man who threw yoghurt on them for not wearing hijabs.
News & Views Iranian girls defy public dancing ban with viral TikTok gaining global support A viral TikTok of five young Iranian women dancing in a public space to Selena Gomez and Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ has ignited global support.
News & Views Hundreds of girls in Iran poisoned by toxic gas at school Since November 2022, girls in Iran have been hospitalised by a wave of poisonous gas attacks targeting them at school. What’s happening?
Soapbox Why these humanitarian crises matter to Australians in 2023 Along with Ukraine, there are five growing humanitarian hotspots elsewhere that show Australia needs to increase its own refugee intake.
Soapbox ‘I am one of them’: Dr Parisa Glass on escaping Iran and the pain and hope she shares for Iranian women and girls Dr Parisa Glass wants to be a voice for Iranian women and girls so that they can be free from tyranny once and for all.
News & Views Iran’s lost another chess star as Sara Khadem arrives in Spain after playing without hijab An Iranian chess player has become a powerful symbol and reminder of just what Iran looses in its continued oppression and war against women and girls.
News & Views Women are angrier today than 10 years ago. Here’s why New data has revealed that women across the globe have been angrier by the year over the last decade. Let’s consider why.
News & Views Iran has arrested thousands over protests with six on death row Iran is arresting steadily more people for their role in the protests, charging them with crimes punishable by death.
News & Views Jacinda Ardern announces NZ’s indefinite suspension of human rights dialogue with Iran Jacinda Ardern has announced she will suspend indefinitely New Zealand’s human rights dialogue with Iran, as protests continue.
News & Views World’s female foreign ministers to discuss women’s rights in Iran in virtual meeting Fifteen female foreign ministers from across the globe will meet on Thursday to discuss the urgency of women’s rights in Iran/