July 20, 2015
Ten human rights and civil society organizations herald the diplomatic efforts to bring about agreement on Iran's nuclear program. Human rights should be tackled with as much vigor.
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February 14, 2015
How can human rights groups focusing on Iran learn to work together and become more professional? Cooperating for change is both possible and beneficial.
November 2, 2014
At the end of September, children all over Iran begin their first day of school. It's an exciting time, filled with hope and the promise of new friends and new experiences. For many children it's also about learning how different the world of the family is from the world outside the family. Many people were interviewed for this article. Some had come of age during the darkest days after the revolution, during the war with Iraq. Some had children who had recently begun school.
October 30, 2014
The current issue of the Iran Human Rights Review focuses on the United Nations. The universal periodic review of Iran's efforts to address human rights abuses will occur at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights just a few hours later. It's a good time to remember that Iran not only endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but helped to shape it.
October 21, 2014
Arseh Sevom--Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is protesting her three-year suspension from practicing law with a protest in front of the Iran Bar Association. She has been joined by a number of other dissidents, including Mohammad Nourizad and Mohammad Maleki. Sotoudeh explains the reasons for her protest beginning with this point: "The Iranian government has been depriving dissidents from the right to life, education and work for many years."
October 16, 2014
At the end of October 2014, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will be reviewing Iran's record on human rights and its efforts to improve conditions.
September 9, 2014
Arseh Sevom — Mahsa Shekarloo, women’s rights activist, writer and editor, translator and founder of the online feminist journal Bad Jens, died Friday September 5, 2014, […]
April 17, 2014
Arseh Sevom--Feminism is essentially the idea that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities. "The notion of freedom for men is not reality in Iran as long as women are not equal" Safoura Elyasi writes. She spoke to several Iranian male activists about their relationship to feminism. One told her: "A lot of people think that women are not currently in the right situation to be treated equally, so we should not extend equality to them. Equality needs to be in the act. It’s related to power. This idea that women are not ready for equality so they should not have it is flawed. In addition to civil actions, we need underlying cultural changes." In part one of a two part article, we hear from three different men.
March 19, 2014
Arseh Sevom -- In this exclusive interview with Arseh Sevom editor Mohammad Reza Sardari, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh discusses the very personal impact of her struggle for equality and justice. She tells of a young son who lost his childhood. “I grew up all of a sudden,” he tells her. In 2013, she was released from prison after serving three years of a six-year sentence for her activities defending the rights of her clients. In this interview, she reminds all of us that there is a price worth paying for the achievement of justice and equality.