Iranian women unveiled: A shift in hijab enforcement? - DW
Dec 29, 2025 · Across Tehran, women of all ages are openly defying compulsory hijab rules — a sign the Islamic Republic may have been weakened by the 12-day war with Israel. In an exclusive …
How Iran’s ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Protests Live On Today
Mar 13, 2025 · Despite decades of repression, the resilience of Iranian women remains unbroken. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in 2022, after being detained by the morality police for allegedly …
Iran: Repression of women ‘intensifying’, two years on from mass ...
Sep 13, 2024 · The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and girls and crush remaining initiatives of women’s activism, UN Human Rights Council …
Iran’s Women Aren’t ‘Defying Tradition’: They’re Reclaiming History ...
3 days ago · What’s unfolding in Iran today isn’t chaos, foreign interference, or a social media trend. It’s a much needed correction. Iranian women aren’t fighting culture. They’re fighting control ...
Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
Mar 6, 2025 · “The oppression of women in Iran is not just discrimination—it is a deliberately designed, institutionalized system of domination intended to enforce the subjugation of women to maintain the …
Iran's future lies in women and everyday defiance, historian says
Aug 22, 2025 · Milani told Eye for Iran podcast that Iranian women are at the heart of today’s opposition. “The Iranian woman who decides to walk in the streets of Tehran, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, without a …
Iran intensifying efforts to repress women and girls on second ...
Sep 13, 2024 · “States must continue to place the situation of women and girls in the Islamic Republic of Iran high on the international agenda,” the update said.
Ministry promotes forgiveness as Iranian women protest oppression
Dec 23, 2025 · Ever since the 2022 death of a woman in custody for "improper attire," Iranian women have stopped wearing hijabs in protest.
Iran: New compulsory veiling law intensifies oppression of women and ...
Dec 10, 2024 · Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe …
Bodies in Revolt: The Everyday Resistance of Iranian Women to State ...
Mar 26, 2025 · From the dawn of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran to today’s digital battlegrounds, Iranian women have been resisting for decades.