Women in Iran

Brazil’s Women’s World Cup team has arrived in Australia on a plane that pays tribute to Iranian human rights protesters. 

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. 

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.

Since November 2022, girls in Iran have been hospitalised by a wave of poisonous gas attacks targeting them at school. What’s happening?

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.

2022 has been a pivotal year for women, locally here and internationally. And now, for 2023… 

This year, we saw the immeasurable strength of women coming together to fight human rights injustices. Let’s look at their collective efforts

Iranian professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani has been sentence to death for supporting women’s rights in Iran.

Iran’s morality police have been abolished, according to the Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri.

Iran is arresting steadily more people for their role in the protests, charging them with crimes punishable by death.

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will suspend indefinitely New Zealand’s human rights dialogue with Iran, as protests continue.

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