Hundreds of women seen without veil running at Kish island's race as Tehran tries to crack down on increasingly ignored modesty laws; prosecutor: event 'violated public decency' The post Iran files ...

Authorities in Iran have long been fighting a battle with women who refuse to wear the hijab or headscarf, often arresting and, in some cases, killing them for disobeying the religious edict. Now the ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has spoken out against forcing women to wear the hijab and recent crackdowns in his country, pitting him against hard-line rivals in the Islamic Republic. “Human ...

Iranian journalist Zeinab Rahimi has refused to wear the mandatory hijab for over two years, despite the risk of arrest and imprisonment. She is among a growing number of women and girls who have ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation Army,” by the White Stripes. Huddled ...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz was a Women Peacemaker Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the University of San Diego (2023-2024). She received funding from this fellowship to conduct research on ...