TEHRAN – Barekat Foundation, a charity foundation, plans to create some 326 job opportunities for women heads of family in the quake-stricken areas of Kermanshah Province. The jobs opportunities are in the fields of livestock breeding and beekeeping. For that purpose each breadwinner woman is granted 300 million rials in donations and loans, Mehr New...Read More

TEHRAN – Women make up 48 percent of internet users, 45 percent of cellphone users, and 23 percent of mobile app developers in Iran, Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said here on Sunday. Women’s fundamental role in society has been proven all through history, the minister told a congress on Women’s Empowerment through ICT,...Read More

Almost 60 percent of babies around the world are not breastfed within the first hour after their birth, putting them at risk of sickness and even death, a new report revealed. Current guidelines from the World Health Organization and UNICEF recommend babies should be breastfed within an hour of their birth and fed only by breastfeeding until...Read More