Iran: four years after 'Woman, Life, Freedom', a society between resistance, repression and war

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Four years after the death of Mahsa Jina Amini on September 16, 2022, and the 'Women, Life, Freedom' uprising that set Iran alight, this gathering aims to revisit nearly half a century of resistance by Iranian civil society to the Islamic Republic. From the early mobilizations of women against mandatory veiling in 1979 to the 'Million Signatures for Equality' campaign, up to the protest movements of 2022 and January 2026 that were bloodily suppressed, it will show how feminist struggles have progressively been embedded in a broader challenge…