Emphasizing the need to support families against the Western culture invasion, the vice president for women and family affairs called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to set up a special working group for family affairs.Read More

Should you be in China right now, you'll see a lot of people wearing surgical masks to protect themselves against coronavirus. A Canadian scientist claims that such masks may actually do more harm than good, if handled improperly – so he's created a coating that could reportedly change that.Read More

The health ministry announced that one-third of Iranian families are currently enjoying medical supervision by an assigned doctor, adding that Tehran aims to increase the program’s coverage for 100% of the population by 2021.Read More

Iranian couple Ehsan Mansourian and Shima Hashemnia, along with their little child Arsalan, have managed to realize their dream of cycling around Iran after 400 days.Read More

The Vice President for Women and Family Affairs said the government's promise to bring women to stadiums is being pursued by the Ministry of Sports and Youth.Read More

An Iranian official says there are currently 10 requests for adoption of per child in Iran, particularly after single women were recently authorized to apply for.Read More

   Iranian lawmakers have unanimously passed a bill presented by the government which allows children with an Iranian mother and a non-Iranian father to ask for the country’s citizenship.Read More

Vice President for women and family affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar welcomed the achievements made by Iran in women and family field. ‘As you witnessed in the statistics and trends Islamic Republic of Iran has successful experiences in the field of women and family,’ Ebtekar said in an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)...Read More

The number of children adopted in Tehran increased by 25 percent in year 1396 (March 2017 – March 2018) compared to the year before, deputy head of Tehran’s welfare organization for social affairs said.  Some 500 children were adopted by Tehraners last year, a 25-percent growth year on year and a 70-percent growth compared to...Read More

Iran’s Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs says the hundreds of governmental and non-governmental organizations working in the fields of women rights are ‘national assets’ of the country.  In an address to a Saturday ceremony in the Centre for Peace and Environment in Tehran, Massoumeh Ebtekar said there are lots of such organizations in Iran...Read More