Women’s News

Women participated in recent protests by medical personnel, defrauded investors and workers. On Saturday, March 9, 2019, a group of medical personnel of Parsian Hospital in Tehran held a protest demanding their unpaid salaries. Women…
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More women are committing suicide in Iran due to poverty and destitution, some taking their young children with them. In a harrowing incident on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, an impoverished family of three doused themselves with kerosene…
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Iranian teachers and educators in six cities continued their protests after their three-day nationwide strikes and sit-in on Thursday, March 7, 2019. Iranian teachers and educators held their protests outside the Department of Education…
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Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh faces up to 34 years in prison and 148 lashes after being convicted in two trials which Amnesty International has called "grossly unfair". In an urgent letter published on March 4, 2019, to the…
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The third day of the nationwide strike and sit-ins of teachers in Iran continued on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in more than 30 cities across the country. Teachers also held up signs emphasizing their demands, including the release of…
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Various forms of suicide including self-immolation due to child marriages have high rates in provinces such as Ilam. Maryam Abbasi Nejhad, an expert on mental health and addiction at the Ministry of Health, confessed to high rates of…
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An innocent young woman who was hanged by her husband died in a hospital after 24 hours in a coma on Saturday, March 2, 2019. Monireh Abu (Mehrnia), 35, a young woman from Bukan, was hanged by her husband, Mohammad Mahmoudi, because of…
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The second day of nationwide sit-ins and strikes by teachers and educators continued on Monday, March 4, 2019, in more than 44 different cities of Iran. On the second day of the fifth series of sit-ins and strikes, which were launched…
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Iranian teachers and educators held nationwide strikes and sit-ins for the fifth time this year, on Sunday, March 3, 2019, upon a previous call. The nationwide strikes and sit-ins have taken place in 31 cities of Iran so far and are…
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Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and her husband, political prisoner Arash Sadeghi have only visited each other twice in the past year. The denial of visits for the political prisoner couple began when Arash Sadeghi was banished…
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