Workers

Student activist Moeen Ghamin detained in Mazandaran

Student activist Moeen Ghamin has been detained, according to human rights sources in Iran.

Unemployment double amongst women

100,000 labour layoffs in last year, says official

More than 100,000 Iranian workers lost their jobs in the past year alone, says the head of Iran’s House of Labour.

'No right' for Iranian workers

Stop repressing Iranian workers, say Turkish labour activists

Stop the repression of Iran’s working class, says a group of Turkish labour activists.

Shaheed urges moratorium on death penalty

UN Report documents 'striking pattern' of human rights violations in Iran

In his second report, Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, has documented a “striking pattern of violations of fundamental human rights” in the country and called for the government's “meaningful cooperation” with the organisation's human rights mechanisms.

Video: Occupy Wall Street activists' message for Iran's political prisoners

Labour activist Mehrdad Vaziri detained in Sanandaj

Iranian labour activist Mehrdad Vaziri has been arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan Province.

'Protests to mark first anniversary of 14 February protests'

Iran opposition calls for fresh demonstrations

GVF — Iran’s opposition Green Movement has called for fresh protests on 14 February, just three days after Iran marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

ACT NOW: Urgent appeal for release of Iranian labour activists

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.

Labour activist Mahdi Farahi Shandiz to serve 3-year prison sentence

The Human Rights Activists news agency has reported that unionist teacher Mahdi Farahi Shandiz was arrested in the first week of January to serve a three-year jail term.

Insight: At the sharp end of Iranian sanctions

Tehran factory worker Mohammad Varamini lost his job of 14 years when rising energy costs and shrinking sales drove the tile maker that employed him out of business. His tale is a familiar one, repeated across Iran where hundreds of firms have been shuttered over the past year, a consequence of international sanctions and economic mismanagement.