(Ibid). In 2003, the law of custody rights of the mother was adjusted again, the mother has the right of custody for both boy and girl to the age of seven years. In 2004 the state provided resources, protection and accommodation for pregnant women and women who have been derelict. Widows and elderly women were also granted special insurance and care. One year later, in 2005 the right of an abortion was approved, only under the conditions if it is performed less than four months in her pregnancy, if the foetus is deformed or the mother’s life is at risk (Ibid).
Before Ahmadinejad was elected as president in 2009, the reformist government and women had made great progress since the establishment of the Islamic republic of Iran. In his first term as president Ahmadinejad immediately announced that men could not be expected to be devoted to only one wife and political freedom was becoming a huge issue again. Non-governmental organisations, including women’s organizations and independent newspapers were shut down. People publicly opposed to Ahmadinejad decisions, arrested and imprisoned. Further reforms were introduced and reintroduced, such as the gender allocation system to restrain the number of women enrolled in higher education. The ‘Mercy Plan’ was another reform introduced in 2006, meaning to ‘brainwash’ women into being more respectful and attentive to their husband, promoting polygamy and barred women to work anywhere else but in the household. Working hours of women …show more content…
Human rights violations such as executions, disappearances, torture, rape, punishments such as public flogging, unreasonable arrests, devastating prison conditions, unfair trials, no freedom of religion, discrimination against religious minorities, restrictions of the work of human rights groups, violence against women; the rise of children running away, prostitution and sex trafficking and a rise of poverty in Iran (Tiefenbrun
Before Ahmadinejad was elected as president in 2009, the reformist government and women had made great progress since the establishment of the Islamic republic of Iran. In his first term as president Ahmadinejad immediately announced that men could not be expected to be devoted to only one wife and political freedom was becoming a huge issue again. Non-governmental organisations, including women’s organizations and independent newspapers were shut down. People publicly opposed to Ahmadinejad decisions, arrested and imprisoned. Further reforms were introduced and reintroduced, such as the gender allocation system to restrain the number of women enrolled in higher education. The ‘Mercy Plan’ was another reform introduced in 2006, meaning to ‘brainwash’ women into being more respectful and attentive to their husband, promoting polygamy and barred women to work anywhere else but in the household. Working hours of women …show more content…
Human rights violations such as executions, disappearances, torture, rape, punishments such as public flogging, unreasonable arrests, devastating prison conditions, unfair trials, no freedom of religion, discrimination against religious minorities, restrictions of the work of human rights groups, violence against women; the rise of children running away, prostitution and sex trafficking and a rise of poverty in Iran (Tiefenbrun