The lives of women and girls continue to be systemically devalued in Iran today. A new report is out from a UN fact-finding ...

All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh's family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where female bodies are heavily policed. To ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, U.N. report says.

Iran is using aerial drones, facial recognition systems, and a citizen-reporting app to enforce mandatory hijab laws on women, according to a United Nations report released Friday. The report ...

Among those efforts, Iranian authorities continue to target women and girls. While the “Hijab and Chastity” law has not yet officially passed, measures to implement it have already begun.

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