This September, twenty years have passed since the launch of the “One Million Signatures Campaign to Change Discriminatory Laws,” a rare experience in Iran’s women’s movement that took shape in 2006 (1385), following years of collective discussion and joint activity among various women’s groups. The campaign sought to take the demand for changing unequal laws […]...

Following the subsiding of direct clashes between Iran and the United States and Israel, and while Iran continues to remain in a state of “neither war nor peace,” the intensification of business closures, pressure on cafés and social spaces, and actions against activists and social media pages have raised serious questions about the relationship between […]...

Reports over the years have revealed that some women prisoners are denied medical treatment and other legal rights. The continued publication of these reports highlights the gap between prison regulations and their practice, raising the question of to what extent human rights standards, including the Bangkok Rules, are being observed in Iran, and whether the […]...

Wars do not end after they are over. This sentence may seem somewhat strange because, naturally, once a war ends, it should become part of memory. But what happens in reality is not like that. Wars sometimes continue for ordinary people in a country through refrigerators going off, reduced water pressure in homes, the rising […]...

After the adoption and communication of the “Law on Intensifying Punishment for Espionage and Cooperation with the Zionist Regime and Hostile States Against National Security and Interests” in October 2025 (Mehr 1404), concerns have intensified in Iran over the expansion of the security atmosphere, the broadening of criminalization, and the escalation of severe punishments, including […]...

The tense developments and the war of the United States and Israel with Iran have brought about noticeable changes in the country’s domestic environment. These changes have not been limited merely to the security and political spheres, but their effects are also clearly observable in the legal and judicial arena. Reports have emerged of the […]...

Following the recent military attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, the human and infrastructural consequences of war have once again come into focus. Although media attention has largely been directed toward the military dimensions and the direct casualties of these conflicts, the reality is that the deeper and more enduring effects of […]...

The January 1404 protests were the bloodiest protests in Iran’s contemporary history, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people and leaving profound human, social, and legal consequences. In addition to its catastrophic human dimensions, this event also presented the country’s legal and judicial order with unprecedented challenges; challenges in which the boundary between “maintaining […]...

The case of the murder of a doctor in Yasouj, the grand funeral of the convicted killer after his public execution, the participation of a local preacher in the ceremony, and ultimately the presence of a member of parliament at the home of the executed man to offer condolences have raised serious questions in the […]...

In Iran today, inequality is no longer limited to the gap in income or lifestyle, but rather this inequality and class differences have taken on new dimensions and found new practices. The question is: how have these gaps formed and in what direction are they taking Iranian society? Are we still faced with traditional patterns […]...