International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Archives - KHRN

November 25, 2024

KHRN’s special report on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

The following report, published to mark 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, documents cases of femicide, arrests, sentencing, dismissals of Kurdish women activists, and the condition of Kurdish female political prisoners in Iran over the past year, from 26 November 2023 to 25 November 2024. Based on direct sources of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and verified through...

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November 25, 2021

Special report: 61 women committed suicide, 25 murdered in seven months in Kurdistan, Iran

On the occasion of 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared a detailed report on cases of genocide, honour killings, female suicides, as well as the arrests and imprisonments of Kurdish women activists in Iran from the beginning of the Iranian year 1400 (21 March 2021) to 25 November. Since 21 March, 61...

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