Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is a protest movement launched in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. The movement demands the end of compulsory hijab laws and other forms of discrimination and oppression against women ...
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 ...
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. [100] Many Iranian women, including Jaleh Amouzgar, Eliz Sanasarian, Janet Afary, and Alenush Terian have been influential in the sciences.
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. A member of the Human Rights Foundation’s International Council, she hosts “Tablet,” a talk show on Voice of ...
Pages in category "Iranian women's rights activists" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
At Pershing Square on Saturday morning, protest leaders with megaphones led chants of "zan, zendegi, azadi," or "woman, life, freedom," the rallying cry of the demonstrations that began in Iran ...
Members of the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights (18 P) Members of the National Council for Peace (35 P) W. Iranian women's rights ...
A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran’s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran.. Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the ...