Popular protests in Iran have entered their fifth day. What began as economically motivated protests (inflation, the collapse of the rial, poverty, and high prices) led by bazaar merchants has quickly turned into a broad political movement with fundamental demands. With students, citizens, and teachers joining the protests, slogans aligned […]
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The protests that began in Tehran’s bazaar and continued for a fourth day on Tuesday, January 9, have entered a new phase by spreading to cities such as Isfahan, Kermanshah, Shiraz, Yazd, and Mashhad. The strike at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar for the third consecutive day, the closure of shopping centers […]
December 18, has been designated by the United Nations as International Migrants Day, a day to remember the fate of millions of displaced people and migrants across the world, whose numbers continue to rise year after year. On this day, governments, international institutions, and analysts speak about the causes and […]
Iran is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for workers. According to the latest officially released statistics, 1,900 workers lost their lives last year alone due to work-related accidents, a figure that, even by the Islamic Republic’s distorted and censored statistical standards, lays bare the scale of […]
Thursday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day. Seventy-seven years ago, on this date, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly as a universal and binding document. Although many states today recognize the Declaration and have even incorporated parts of it into their constitutions, […]
These days mark the anniversary of a series of political assassinations in Iran, known as the “Chain Murders.” On this occasion, in 2008, the Iranian Writers’ Association declared December 4th, the day of the murder of the courageous writer and activist Mohammad Mokhtari as the Day of Struggle Against Censorship […]
Today, Saturday 29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. UN General Assembly Resolution 181, passed on 29 November 1947, which proposed the partition of Palestine, marked the beginning of war, mass displacement, institutionalized discrimination, and the formation of one of the world’s longest unresolved conflicts […]
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 25, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. November 25 marks the assassination of the Mirabal sisters; Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa who were murdered in 1960 for their political resistance against the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Their killing became the origin […]
One of the most distressing pains of human society is violence against women an agony that recognizes no borders, no class, no age. It lurks everywhere, ready to harm women in any place and at any time. Wherever there is a woman, some form of this suffering lies in wait. […]
We are approaching the anniversary of the revolutionary Aban (November) uprising. On the evening of November 14, 2019 (Aban 23, 1398), the sudden and simultaneous increase in gasoline prices was announced a decision implemented from the early hours of the next day, sparking a wave of nationwide protests. The peak […]