News : Women

By INU Staff

INU - Earlier this year, Sufi Muslim followers protested alleged religious repression by the government in Tehran. For years, members of the Gonabadi Dervish have complained of religious persecution and frequent imprisonments.

By INU Staff

INU - The Iranian Regime’s parliament (Majlis) has recently produced a report on the compulsory veil in Iran that found – to no one’s great surprise – that most women are not in favour of their rulers restricting their clothing and actually reject the mandatory hijab.

By INU Staff

INU - Nearly 2 million women across Iran are illiterate, according to Ali Baqirzadeh, the head of the country’s Literacy Movement Organization (ILMO).

By INU Staff

INU - The state of women’s employment in Iran is one of the worst in the world, according to a recent report by the UN, with few job opportunities for women and sexist laws restricting women’s rights in the workplace, resulting in high female unemployment.

By INU Staff

INU - Semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Iran's attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri is seeking to prosecute organizers of a party arranged by Tehran City Hall that commemorated Iranian Women's Day.

By INU Staff

INU -Thursday marked International Women’s Day, an occasion that was acknowledged by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a series of tweets justifying his government’s institutionalized gender discrimination and forced veiling laws for women. Khamenei credited the hijab with preventing women from adopting a “deviant lifestyle” and he railed against Western attitudes about women’s rights, calling them “symbolic of consumerism”.