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A woman is required by Iranian law to have the permission on her husband before she can leave the country or obtain a passport. In response to this, many Iranian women created a protest called "Women's right to travel" which has garnered over 50,000 signatures. Women in Iran have little, if any, autonomy or rights compared to men in Iran. [82]
There are three parts, with each having biographical data on key women. The first part covers Qajar Iran, the second part covers Pahlavi Iran, and the third covers the society after the Iranian Revolution. [1] The third part mentions that Iranian women have more public societal presence compared to women from some other countries that follow ...
The Women's Cultural Centre is an organization founded in the 1990s by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani and Parvin Ardalan and has been a center for forming opinions, analyzing and documenting women's issues in Iran. [38] Since 2005, the organization has published Iran's first online magazine on women's rights, Zanestan, with Ardalan as its editor.
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 ...
Women in Iran were granted the right to vote in 1963. [56] They were first admitted to Iranian universities in 1937. [57] Since then, several women have held high-ranking posts in the government or parliament. Before and after the 1979 revolution, several women were appointed ministers or ambassadors.
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom ...
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the president is the second person of government and the head of government. He is the highest nominally popularly elected official in Iran, although he answers to the Supreme Leader of Iran , who functions as the country's head of state .
Iran has launched a major new ... to try to reassert the government’s authority after women-led protests in 2022 and 2023 challenged the mandatory hijab law. ... the operation on state TV on ...