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Iran - Women Now Comprise
1/3 of Iran’s Homeless
July
12, 2015 - The Iranian President’s Advisor for Women and Family Affairs says
that 1/3 of Iran’s homeless are women.
ILNA
reports that according to Shahindokht Molaverdi, 5,000 of the 15,000 homeless
in the country are women, adding that these statistics are documented.
Molaverdi
called on the 13 government organizations that could address the problem of
homeless women to “speed up” their efforts to remedy the situation. She added
that her office is making every effort to coordinate the action of those 13
government bodies.
The
first shelter to help homeless women was established in 2007 by a
non-governmental organization, Tavalodi Digar, with public health support on
Tehran’s Molodi Street under the name of Garmkhaneh.
In
February of 2011, the Social Welfare office confirmed that homelessness among
women was on the rise. The following year it was announced that women as young
as 20 were now among the homeless.