Iran Protests Are Debated in Georgetown Women’s Rights Panel
By Natasha Phillips
Leading Iranian women’s rights advocates discussed the Iran protests and women’s instrumental role in them and women’s participation in it during an online conference held on Nov. 2.
The web-based seminar, titled “Standing with...
Nazanin Boniadi Appeal at UN Security Council – Text
Kayhan Life Staff
The United States and Albania held an informal U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday, putting a spotlight on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini. in...
U.S. Wants Iran Ousted From U.N. Women’s Body
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The United States will try to remove Iran from the 45-member U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the government's denial of women's rights and brutal crackdown on...
UN Human Rights Chief Fears Pushback on Gender Issues, Cites Iran Clampdown
By Cecile Mantovani
GENEVA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The new U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday there was a worrying pushback against progress in easing rights abuses, above all on gender issues, pointing to Iran's violent clampdown...
Iran’s Parliament Passes Bill to Raise Wages of Armed Forces, Police Personnel
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Majlis (Iranian Parliament) has passed an amendment to the government’s 2022-23 budget bill, increasing the salaries of police and armed forces personnel by 20 percent, the Islamic Republic News Agency...
Iranian Schoolgirl Killed After Tearing Khomeini Picture Out of Book, Rights Group Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
On October 25, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) security units beat up Parmis Hamnava, a schoolgirl in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, after she allegedly tore out of her...
Videos Showing Iranian Crackdown on Protesters Go Viral as Anger Grows
DUBAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Videos on social media showing Iranian security forces severely beating protesters have gone viral as anger grows at a widening crackdown with arrests of prominent figures from rappers to economists and lawyers...
Iran University Students Strike, Piling Pressure on Rulers
DUBAI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Iranian university students pressed ahead with sit-down strikes on Tuesday in support of some of the biggest protests since the 1979 revolution, ignoring harsh warnings by elite security forces and a...
Shirin Ebadi and Nazanin Boniadi to Brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday
KayhanLife Staff
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and Iranian-born actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi will brief an informal Security Council meeting on Wednesday. The United States and Albania are organising the meeting at...
Canada Imposes Fresh Iran Sanctions Over Human Rights Violations
Oct 31 (Reuters) - Canada on Monday imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, marking the fourth package of sanctions it has implemented for alleged human rights violations in that country, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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