Shaparak Shajarizadeh is an avid supporter of the #WhiteWednesdays movement, which encourages Iranian women to remove their headscarves on Wednesdays or wear a white shawl as a way to oppose compulsory hijab laws in Iran. She was jailed, tortured and …

Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad started the White Wednesdays movement in 2017 to encourage Iranian women to wear white headscarves on Wednesdays to protest the compulsory hijab (veiling) laws in Iran. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian women have been …

IOHR launched its women’s rights campaign, #ItsNotAMatch at the Million Women Rise march open to women only in London. The campaign aims to deter online sex trafficking and raising awareness against this worldly crime. A number of IOHR ambassadors joined the march which had a diverse group of women protesters from all around the world…

Shakilla talks exclusively to IOHR TV about her terrifying forced marriage. At the age of 16 she was taken to Pakistan against her will to marry her 24-year-old cousin and subsequently suffered horrific domestic violence. At Karma Nirvana, a Leeds based charity, we spoke to the director about the problems women face in alerting the…