Afghanistan women protest over death of Mahsa Amini

Sep 29, 2022

Kabul [Afghanistan], September 29 : Iran protests spread to Afghanistan as a number of women's rights activists staged a demonstration in front of the...

Iran's ouster from Women's Commission shows UN's bias

Dec 16, 2022

The United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has removed Iran from the United Nations' leading global commission fighting for gender equality because...

UN rights body launches Iran human rights probe

Nov 25, 2022

The Council, meeting in a special session in response to the crisis that was sparked by the death in September in police custody of...

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 06, 2023

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women...

Iran condemns UN's report on protest crackdown, calls it "false and biased"

Mar 10, 2024

Iran has condemned the United Nations report stating that Iran's violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and...

Reproductive rights are women's rights and human rights: UN Women

Jun 25, 2022

New York [US], June 25 : After the US Supreme Court struck down Roe vs Wade eliminating the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion,...