Iran: we have not reached equal blood money for men & women

Following high profile reports on the adoption of a legislation which sets women’s blood money equal to men’s, Shahindokht Molaverdi, women and family affairs deputy of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani,

asserted that this law is only limited to driving accidents and the original problem over the half-value of women’s blood money still persists.

Molaverdi said, “The law finalized on blood money of men and women only concerns claims in driving accidents and the obligations of insurance companies with regards to women’s blood money. The original issue about (the value of) women’s blood money in the law, however, continues to persist and we have not reached equality of the blood money of men and women.” (State Tabnak website – March 31, 2016)