Gender discrimination in sports venues remains a harsh reality in several nations around the world. While progress has been ...

When she first started learning to ride a motorbike, Iranian Maryam Ghelich, now an instructor, would drive through Tehran's empty streets at night to avoid scrutiny over her clothing or lack of a ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has welcomed the news that women were allowed to attend a football match at Imam Reza Stadium in Mashhad, where dozens were reportedly denied entry three years ago.

A female Iranian rock climber, who did not wear a hijab at an international competition in South Korea, has returned to Iran as Iranian groups based abroad raised alarms over her fate back home. Elnaz ...

The Iranian judiciary on December 6 said it had arrested two organizers of a marathon after some women competed in the event without wearing the mandatory hijab, the Islamic head scarf. "Despite ...

Are These Iran Protests Different? What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? Israeli and American efforts to degrade the military, nuclear, and oppressive capabilities of the regime ...

Israel and the United States say that their attacks on Iran are for the benefit of its women. Iranian feminists couldn’t disagree more. Young Iranian women walk past a banner featuring portraits of ...

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 ...

Facial recognition systems identify women flouting hijab law Technology also used to target protesters, dissidents Activists fear more arrests, abuses after death of Mahsa Amini Sept 21 (Thomson ...

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 ...