The UN has made some stupid decisions in its history but latest one surely takes the biscuit. Iran, multiple human rights abusing rogue state, has been elected to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations Economic and Social Council is an absolute travesty. In Iran women lack the ability to choose their husbands, have no independent right to education after marriage, no rig...

From LabourStart. Anyone think supporting these women and workers is some sort of capitulation to imperialism?! On May Day this year in Iran, two brave women - Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi - participated in open celebrations of the international workers' holiday. The regime considers this to be a crime and the women were arrested. They have just been sentenced to 15 lashes apiece, as we...

Iran Elected To Serve On The United Nations Commission On The Status Of Women From The Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction File This is difficult to explain, even given the fact that the United Nations is the body doing it. Is this the same Iran that recently passed a law which could lead to women being imprisoned for enjoying some time in the sun? Is this the same Iran, the government of which has back...

BBC: A Muslim think-tank has found some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law. Scholars at the Centre for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) interviewed 90 Muslims in London, the West Midlands, Lancashire and West Yorkshire. They found some women did not get fair hearings in forced marriage, arranged marriage and domestic violence matters. Well, fuck me...

Heroic women take to the streets to protest a new law which legalizes rape within marriage.

On the second anniversary of the launch of the Campaign for Equality on 27 August, Amnesty International is renewing its demand that the Iranian authorities cease harassing and imprisoning women’s rights defenders and to restrict their campaigning activities for the repeal of laws and policies which discriminate against women in Iran. The Campaign for Equality is a network of individuals wor...

Iran and Israel are both guilty of repeated abuse of human rights. In Iran, the jailing of Roxana Saberi for spying is an injustice, and a deliberate slap in the face to genuine overtures from Obama to cool the diplomatic temperature. But it is a comparatively small transgression in Iran, a country which executes gays and radically curtails freedom of speech, the rights of women and numerous other...

There's a fantastic article in the Independent about how women are standing up to the mullahs of Iran here.

“Flexibility and ingenuity is what makes us a true social movement” Sussan Tahmasebi, founding member, Campaign for Equality. This Iranian women's movement seeks to change all gender-biased laws in Iran. Its 'One Million Signatures Campaign' will show that one million Iranians want women to have equal rights. Q: Tell us about the Campaign for Equality and what it has ach...

A court decision to annul a Muslim couple's marriage because the bride lied about being a virgin discriminates against women and should be overturned, state prosecutors argued Monday.