Iran: On the eve of UN summit, NCRI publishes study on women's plight in Iran

TheNCRI Women's Committee has published a study on the Iranian regime's 20-year conduct since the Beijing Platform for Action.

The study sheds light on institutionalized violence and discrimination against women in Iran and its horrendous consequences for Iranian women and girls.

It further probes the regime's vision on women contradicting universal humanitarian standards and the objectives of the gender-equality movement.

Iran: Religious scholar calls for expansion of gender segregation in universities

One of the famous religious scholars called for gender segregation in universities. Mullah Makarem Shirazi said: "You hold on strong to your beliefs and persist on your plans and laws aiming to segregating universities, so that you can expand this plan. State-run media, September 8, 2015.

Iran: Religious scholar calls for expansion of gender segregation in universities

Iran regime intensifies suppression of women and gender apartheid

Iranian women are force to wear mandatory Hijab under the mullahs rule.

suppression of women

The Iranian regime parliament is deliberating on a scheme dubbed “protecting hijab and chastity” in order to ramp up the atmosphere of terror in the society and to intensify suppression of women in particular. Most of the articles of this 13-article legislation that was in general ratified by regime’s parliament last October aims at limiting women’s employment and imposing still further pressure and suppression of women on the mullahs-fabricated pretext of “mal-veiling.