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Iranian Women's Movement Beyond Gender and Age

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Photography, Politics, Women & Gender

Iranian female rights activists have launched several initiatives such as the “One Million Signatures Demanding Change to Discriminatory Laws Campaign [1] and they have organized peaceful protest movements against discrimination. Some of these women were arrested [2] and sent to jail for a few weeks or days. Iranian women continue their struggle for justice and freedom.Thanks to Kosoof [3], a leading photoblogger, we can discover some important moments of this movement in photographs from the last two years. Here are five photos chosen to display that in the struggle there is no question of gender or age. We see old and young men and women taking part in the demonstrations as well as female police repressing women activists [4].

iranian womens movement

iranian womens movement

iranian womens movement

iranian womens movement

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