The Baloch people and discrimination arising from legal structures.

The purpose of this note is to emphasize the point that applied research with the aim of evaluating government policies for “preserving national security” in the face of the presence of ethnic groups (including the Baloch) must necessarily consider the role of legal structures (such as the constitution) and also examine how laws are implemented […]...

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Changing the position and role of Baloch women

At the fourth Minority Forum at the United Nations in November 2011 in Geneva, which was dedicated to the situation of women and how to improve it, reports showed that in countries where discrimination exists for certain groups of people based on language, religion, or social status, women belonging to these discriminated and oppressed communities […]...

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The people of Sistan and Baluchestan want water.

More than half of the population of Sistan and Baluchestan province lives in the villages of this province and the lack of drinking water in rural areas of Sistan and Baluchestan has been a problem for years, especially in the summer season and due to the negligence of officials, it has become one of the […]...

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اجتماعیEradicating poverty and unemployment is the key to achieving social security.

Although the distance of 1700 kilometers between Sistan and Baluchestan may seem far from the center, it is likely that the perspective of the “centralists” distorts the reality of life for the people of this region and reduces the 1700 to a meaningless number. The center of residents who, with the capture of their soldiers […]...

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Saeed Peyvandi: Child marriage, virtue or abuse and commerce?

The Iranian Registration Organization has recently announced that during the first 9 months of the year 1392, out of a total of 579,871 marriages, 30,956 were related to marriages of girls under the age of 15. According to these statistics, during the past 7 years, more than one-third of women whose marriages were registered were […]...

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Does the taboo of sexual education break in schools?

Hamidreza Kafash, the deputy of educational and cultural affairs at the Ministry of Education, seems to have distanced himself from the official policy of concealing and denying the sexual harassment of students by senior managers of this ministry. In an interview with ISNA (July 10, 2014), Kafash, with some ifs and buts, announced the design […]...

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The bodies of women are the battlefield of Iranian political men.

A country where contraception methods are illegal is a country that is an enemy of women. The Iranian parliament has passed a law that considers abortion, sterilization, and any permanent contraception methods such as vasectomy as a crime. This fundamental move is designed to combat the significant population growth in the country, with long-term prisons […]...

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Mosquito Killing: Intersection of Patriarchy, Gender, and Religion

The book “Honour Killing: The Intersection of Patriarchy, Gender, and Religion” is a case study and in-depth research by Ms. Melissa Pichard in collaboration with Professor Jacobo Schifter, published in December 2011. Honor killing is the act of killing a member of a family or community by other members, with the belief that the individual […]...

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