Nov 28, 2021 | Human Rights, News, Press Release, Women's Rights
It has been more than ten days since the illegal detention of Ms. Narges Mohammadi, the Vice President of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre and the Chair of the Women’s Committee Centre. Ms. Narges Mohammadi was arrested during the commemoration of the second...
Jul 16, 2021 | Human Rights, News, Press Release, Women's Rights
The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from the very first days of its establishment, has consistently attempted to eliminate its opponents inside and outside the country, by measures such as assassinations, kidnappings and executions. According to some...
Mar 7, 2021 | News, Women's Rights
IOPHR notes while the Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace is rightly celebrated around the world, there are sadly more than forty million Iranian women who are still held captive by a backward looking medieval ideology of the current Iranian...
Feb 19, 2021 | Human Rights, Press Release, Women's Rights
The IOPHR strongly condemns the execution of the innocent prisoner Ms. Zahra Esmaeili and 16 other prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, on the 17th February 2021. Zahra Esmaeili’s lawyer, Omid Moradi wrote on his Facebook page that Zahra Esmaeili suffered a...
Nov 24, 2020 | Conference, Freedom of Religion and Belief, News, Women's Rights
On 19th November 2020, IOPHR held a webinar on the “Legalisation of Child Marriage and the Oppression of Women Under Iran’s Ruling Regime in the Last Four Decades.” This event which was hosted by IOPHR in association with the International Religious Freedom Roundtable...
Nov 18, 2020 | Conference, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Women's Rights
Women and children have suffered severely since the Islamic Revolution in Iran due to the growing systematic and widespread human rights violations in Iran. In recent years, Iranian women have fallen victim to the propagation of hate-filled rhetoric by a number of...