VIDEO: Protests Escalate in the Female-Only Science University of Sanandaj
Kurdish students at a women-old science university throw stones against regime forces in the city of Sandanaj.
Interview With Shirin Ebadi On Iran’s Human Rights Record
Dr. Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and the founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her important...
Call For Un Rights Chief To Prevent Execution of Iranian Boxer
GENEVA, July 20 (Reuters) - Dozens of rights activists as well as prominent lawyers and former prosecutors have written to the U.N. Human Rights chief urging him to intervene to try to prevent the execution of...
Biden Receives Letter from Jailed Iranian American -White House
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday it had received a letter to President Joe Biden from Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for more than seven years on spying charges, and called Iran's...
India’s Iranian Oil Imports in June Fall as Sanctions Fears Bite – Sources
By Nidhi Verma and Sai Sachin Ravikumar
NEW DELHI, July 11 (Reuters) - India's oil imports from Iran declined by 15.9 percent in June, the first month after the United States said it would reimpose...
ANALYSIS: How Iran Treats Women
Oct 6 (Reuters) - The Nobel Peace Prize for jailed activist Narges Mohammadi has heightened scrutiny on women's rights in Iran.
Tehran rejects accusations of discrimination, but these are some of the ways it treats women, according to 2021 and 2023 reports...
Iran Has Among the World’s Worst Gender Equality Records, OECD Says
Iran has the worst workplace gender gap record after Pakistan and Yemen, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In a report released on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day, the...
World Court to Rule on Iran Plea to Lift U.S. Sanctions
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Court of Justice, the highest United Nations court, will rule Wednesday on an Iranian plea to have U.S. sanctions against...
Deadly Moment Iran Woman Was Shot Dead While Filming Crackdown on Demonstrations
KL/Reuters:Smartphone video taken by Iranian woman Shirin Alizadeh recording gunfire crackdown on protesters near a security forces base in Charlus, Mazandaran Province, Iran, on Sept 22, 2022 before she is killed by a gunshot.
It is reportedly...
Iran Protesters Mark Anniversary of Bloody Crackdown in Southeast
DUBAI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Protesters faced off with security forces in Iran's restive southeast on Friday to mark the anniversary of a Sept. 30, 2022, crackdown by security forces known as "Bloody Friday", according to rights...
