Iran's leaders are in a tight spot. President Donald Trump seems determined to increase their pain. He hopes that he can ...

About the Netherlands' Human Rights Policy In line with the UN Women’s UNiTE campaign OrangeTheWorld, the Netherlands is a strong advocate for international collaboration on eliminating violence ...

Iran was still reeling from news in late January that a 17-year-old girl was fatally stabbed by her father in the country's northwest when news broke that another 17-year-old was shot by her ...

Sacred Fig is the type of work that is monumental simply for existing — but it’s also a gripping political thriller that is ...

Just as Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof completed shooting his 10th film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in April last year he was forced to flee his home in Tehran where he faced an eight-year ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi spent years incarcerated for political reasons. She and other human rights activists say torture and sexual violence against women are ...

The Israeli director managed to convince Nafisi of his vision—and then to secure the funding, assemble a suitable Iranian ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a ...

Indiana Women's Caucus for Art members Berkeley Hutsebout, Kari Stieglitz Black and Teresa Greve Wolf present their artwork ...

THIS is the dramatic moment an Iranian woman snatched a brazen cleric's turban off his head after he blasted her for not wearing a hijab. The fearless woman then wrapped the turban around her head ...

Amnesty International and Nahid Taghavi's family say she has been released from an Iranian prison after over four years. The women's rights activist had been sentenced to over 10 years for ...