Iran’s War On Women Continues

(New York, N.Y.) –U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran Javaid Rehman told the U.N. Human Rights Council this week in his latest report that systematic discrimination against women, including arbitrary detention of women’s rights advocates, continues in Iran. The U.S. State Department also called attention to this issue yesterday, when it released its own 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)’s updated resource, Iran’s War on Women, catalogues the history of the regime’s repression of women. The regime has employed violence, imprisonment, and harassment as its tools of choice. The resource also explores the structural discrimination against women, analyzing the Islamic Republic’s legal system, specifically the Penal Code and the Family and Inheritance Law. As the U.N. Special Rapporteur noted in his new report, the Islamic Republic has even violated its own Prison Regulations and international law—specifically denying “detained women the possibility of meeting with their children as a means of punishment.”

To explore UANI’s resource, Iran’s War on Women, please click here.

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