Gender inequality 2 Human rights in Iran

in spring 2007, iranian police launched crackdown against women accused of not covering enough, arresting hundreds of women, wearing tight overcoat or letting hair peek out under veil. campaign in streets of major cities toughest such crackdown since islamic revolution. more 1 million iranians (mostly women) arrested in 12-month period (may 2007 – may 2008) violating state dress code, according may 2008 nbc today show report matt lauer.

guidance patrols (gasht-e ershâd) – referred religious police in western media – enforce islamic moral values , dress codes. reformist politicians have criticized unpopular patrols patrols ‘interminable’ according iranian judicial authorities have pointed out in islamic republic president not have control on enforcement of dress codes.

in may 2016, iranian government announced arrest of 8 women involved in online modeling without mandatory head scarf. mehdi abutorabi, blogger managed publishing tool called persian blog, detained.

alleged banning of women universities

in august 2012, following years in iranian women students have outperformed iranian male students, 36 universities announced 77 ba , bsc courses single gender , not co-ed. under policy, undergraduate women excluded wide variety of studies in leading institutions, including english literature, english translation, hotel management, archaeology, nuclear physics, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, , business management. shirin ebadi, iranian nobel laureate , human rights lawyer exiled in united kingdom, wrote united nations secretary general ban ki-moon , high commissioner human rights navi pillay on move, saying iran s true agenda lower proportion of female students 65% below 50%, weaken iran s feminist movement in campaign against discriminatory islamic laws. iranian parliamentarians have criticized new policy.