The Discriminatory Legal Structure Against Women in Iran and the Strategic Logic of the One Million Signatures Campaign/ Parvaneh Ahmadi

The legal, social, and political status of women in contemporary Iranian history, particularly in the decades following the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979 (1357), has always been marked by profound contradictions and complexities. On the one hand, as time has passed, Iranian society has witnessed the dynamism and extensive presence of women in […]...

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Femicide in Iran: Unequal Law, Violent Structures, and the Cycle of Impunity / Maryam Hosseini

Femicide in Iran is a crisis phenomenon that reflects deep gender inequalities, legal gaps, and a culture of male dominance. The increase in the number of women being murdered, along with the absence of a strong legal framework that specifically addresses the killing of women based on gender, has raised concerns that some of these […]...

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Dr. Nahid Tousli: There is no hope for the approval of fair laws regarding women’s rights in the parliament / Ali Kalaii.

Despite the increase in the number of female representatives in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, there is still not much hope for the drafting and passing of completely equal and fair laws regarding women’s rights. This is the perspective of Dr. Nahid Tavassoli, a sociologist, researcher, and women’s rights activist, who was interviewed by Khat-e-Solh in […]...

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Hossein Raeisi: The traditional legal system in Iran is the breeding ground for domestic violence/ Siavash Khorramgah.

Conversation with Siavash Khoramgah Hossein Raeisi, has graduated from Shiraz and Tehran universities in the fields of judicial law and criminal law, and is currently a human rights professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Mr. Raeisi, who has more than twenty years of experience as a lawyer, has a special focus on certain […]...

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