Violence against Women

Statement by Rashida Manjoo, Professor, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. She addressed the Free Iran rally on…

The violent arrest of a young woman in Tehran caused public outcry in Iran. Plainclothes agents of the State Security Force (SSF) arrested five young women and men in a park in Tehranpars where they were playing water guns on Saturday,…

NCRI Women's Committee Monthly Report - April 2019 Download full text   Crackdown resumed instead of attending to flood victims The flood crisis continued to overshadow all other issues in Iran throughout the month of April.…

By Elham Zanjani The following article by Elham Zanjani, from the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on the role of the IRGC in suppression of women in Iran, appeared in the newsblaze.com on Tuesday, April…

NCRI Women's Committee Monthly Report - March 2019 Download full text Iran Women Fall Victims to Violence, Injustice, Flash Floods The issues of Iranian women in February and March ranged from horrible cases of domestic violence…

A young woman, 20, has been kidnapped by her ex-husband. Guna Houshmand, from Marivan, was kidnapped by her ex-husband at 11 a.m. on March 26, 2019, while she was standing outside the Red Crescent Club in this city. The news of this…

The PSW bill, Provision of Security for Women against violence, needs to be fundamentally revised otherwise it cannot be reformed. These are the remarks made by Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje’ii, first deputy minister and spokesman of the…

Zahra Navidpour was found dead at her mother's home on Sunday, January 6, 2018. She was immediately transferred to hospital but did not have any signs of life. Zahra Navidpour, 28, had been repeatedly raped by Salman Khodadadi, the…

A young woman identified only as Noushin, 25, was hanged on Saturday, December 22, 2018, the Iranian state-run ROKNA news agency reported. It is not clear in which city and prison the execution took place. The young woman had been…

Domestic violence against women in Iran saw a 20% rise last year in the period spanning from March 2017 to March 2018. A number of sociologists and social researchers have underscored the escalation of domestic violence against women in…