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for Women's and Family Affairs: 2013 — 9 Elham Aminzadeh: Vice President for Legal Affairs 2013: 2016 — Hassan Rouhani: 10 Shahindokht Molaverdi: Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs: 2013: 2019 Islamic Iran Participation Front: 11 Zahra Ahmadipour: Head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization: 2016: 2017
Iranian women rights activists determined education is a key for the country's women and society; they argued giving women education was best for Iran because mothers would raise better sons for their country. [96] Many Iranian women, including Jaleh Amouzgar, Eliz Sanasarian, Janet Afary, and Alenush Terian have been influential in the sciences.
Roya Hakakian (born 1966), Iranian-Jewish human rights activist, poet, journalist and writer. Faezeh Hashemi (born 1963), journalist, women rights activist, and former member of Iranian parliament (1996–2000) Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), human rights activist, author, poet, filmmaker; Mehrangiz Kar (born 1944), human rights lawyer and Iranian ...
The human rights organization Amnesty International has reported that it has received reports of several cases of rape of women and men detainees in Iran's prisons. On January 17, 2020, Raha Bahreini, Amnesty International's special reporter on Iran, revealed a case of sexual assault on an Iranian woman who had been detained in Tehran during ...
The Iranian Women's Rights Movement (Persian: جنبش زنان ایران), is the social movement for women's rights of the women in Iran. The movement first emerged after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1910, the year in which the first women's periodical was published by women.
One of Iran's most prominent human rights activists, Mohammadi, 51, worked as an engineer and a columnist for various newspapers following her studies. She was first arrested in 2011 for assisting ...
The latter is coincidentally also outlined in a bipartisan resolution cosponsored by 257 House members, including 29 Texans. Conversely, the regime’s repressive instincts are on display.
The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved measures Tuesday targeting Iran for its human rights record and placing restrictions on the country's ability to import or export its expanding arsenal of ...