Against the backdrop of the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine and a historically low birth rate, the authorities in Russia are waging an unprecedented campaign against the right to choose to be a mother.

As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repression

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Against the backdrop of the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine and a historically low birth rate, the authorities in Russia are waging an unprecedented campaign against the right to choose to be a mother.

Exclusive: Greens for Palestine group has links to activists who say pro-Israel ‘infiltrators’ must be rooted out of UK

Latest UN figures revealed that Iran and Pakistan alone have unlawfully expelled more than 2.6 million people to Afghanistan this year

Following the broadcast of the speech delivered by Masoud Pezeshkian, head of the 14th government, at the United Nations General Assembl ...

Canada imposed new Iran sanctions on five individuals and five entities, linking the action to human rights abuses and global security concerns.

Four United Nations human rights experts issued a joint statement on Wednesday, September 23, calling on the Islamic Republic to immedia ...

As Iran ramps up executions of protestors, Amirhossein Miresmaeili speaks to the families and friends of those on death row

Iranians do not owe anyone a choice between their killers. Neither do Palestinians, Syrians, Kurds, Afghans, or Ukrainians.

At least 17 Afghan migrants, including six children, have died from extreme dehydration in a remote desert region along the Iran-Afghanistan border, says Iranian human rights group Haalvsh.

At least one hundred protesters arrested in connection with the January 2026 protests are currently at risk of the death penalty in Iran.

A bipartisan sanctions bill would hit the regimes that terrorize us. The House should pass it.

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Leaked documents and testimony reveal extent of regime’s crackdown in 2022 and how it paved the way for more brutal killings of protesters this year Iranian security forces “coordinated” the killing, torture and sexual abuse of hundreds of people who took part in the women-led nationwide protests in September 2022, according to leaked state documents and interviews. Tens of thousands of people, including children, took to the streets of towns and cities across Iran after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, after her arrest by the “morality” police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab regulations. Continue reading...

Amnesty International’s new landmark 1000+page report exposes how the Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity to crush the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising and identifies 87 officials who should be criminally investigated. We call for urgent international criminal justice to end impunity for repeated mass protest killings in Iran.

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Violent crackdown on protests similar to events of 2026, rights group says The death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman arrested for violating Islamic dress rules, touched off weeks of violent protests in Iran in 2022. (Photo: AFP) PARIS - Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in the crackdown on 2022 protests that left hundreds dead, Amnesty International said Wednesday, adding Tehran’s suppression of new demonstrations this year bore the “same hallmarks” but on an even wider scale.