Through Her Eyes starts today.
Girls in this region are spoken about constantly. In reports, in resolutions, in headlines written by people who have never met them. They are counted, cited, and legislated over. They are almost never asked.
So we are asking.
From August 18 to International Day of the Girl on October 11, IHRDC is publishing eight weeks of stories from girls across Iran, Afghanistan and the broader Middle East — in their own words, wherever it is safe to tell them.
What you'll find here is not a catalogue of suffering. It is girls talking about school, and friendship, and music, and what they intend to do with their lives — alongside what has been taken from them. Both are true at once. Flattening one into the other is its own kind of erasure.
We're not going to tell you this campaign reopens a school or lifts a ban. It doesn't. But a girl who is heard is harder to disappear, and being heard is where every other right starts. That much we can do, and we intend to do it well.
Follow along. Share what stays with you.
@iranhrdc
#ThroughHerEyes
#DayOfTheGirl
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#Iran
#Afghanistan
#GirlsRights
#IHRDC
Girls in this region are spoken about constantly. In reports, in resolutions, in headlines written by people who have never met them. They are counted, cited, and legislated over. They are almost never asked.
So we are asking.
From August 18 to International Day of the Girl on October 11, IHRDC is publishing eight weeks of stories from girls across Iran, Afghanistan and the broader Middle East — in their own words, wherever it is safe to tell them.
What you'll find here is not a catalogue of suffering. It is girls talking about school, and friendship, and music, and what they intend to do with their lives — alongside what has been taken from them. Both are true at once. Flattening one into the other is its own kind of erasure.
We're not going to tell you this campaign reopens a school or lifts a ban. It doesn't. But a girl who is heard is harder to disappear, and being heard is where every other right starts. That much we can do, and we intend to do it well.
Follow along. Share what stays with you.
@iranhrdc
#ThroughHerEyes
#DayOfTheGirl
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#Iran
#Afghanistan
#GirlsRights
#IHRDC
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Say Their Names
Girls killed in the crackdown of January 2026
• During the crackdown of January 2026, the Islamic Republic’s security forces
killed thousands of Iranians. Among them were girls and young women who had gone out to protest peacefully.
• Families were pressured into small or secret burials, sometimes at night, and told not to speak publicly about what had happened to their daughters. State media called the dead “rioters.” The internet had been cut for days, so the scale of it stayed hidden for a time.
• Thousands more were arrested, girls and young women among them. Most were held without access to their families or lawyers. Some remain unaccounted for.
• Sevda Akramifard, Nazanin Zahra Salehi, Ghazal Janghorban, Arnika Dabbagh, Melina Asadi, Bahar Shadmehri, Kimia Kamyab, Faezeh Izadi, Nazanin Esmikhani, Esra Tavousinia, Sana Tousangi, Yalda Mohammadkhani, Setayesh Samadi, Niousha Hamidi, Shiva Javid, Melika Shahmoradi, Fatemeh-Raha Tajian, Samira Khani, Bahar Hosseini are among the confirmed deaths. There are many more ...
• A name is the last thing a state can take, and the first thing anyone can give back. So repeat them. Today, and next January, when the news has moved on and those who gave the orders are counting on you having forgotten.
@iranhrdc
#SayTheirNames
#Iran
#IranProtests
#GirlsRights #InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#ThroughHerEyes
#IHRDC
Girls killed in the crackdown of January 2026
• During the crackdown of January 2026, the Islamic Republic’s security forces
killed thousands of Iranians. Among them were girls and young women who had gone out to protest peacefully.
• Families were pressured into small or secret burials, sometimes at night, and told not to speak publicly about what had happened to their daughters. State media called the dead “rioters.” The internet had been cut for days, so the scale of it stayed hidden for a time.
• Thousands more were arrested, girls and young women among them. Most were held without access to their families or lawyers. Some remain unaccounted for.
• Sevda Akramifard, Nazanin Zahra Salehi, Ghazal Janghorban, Arnika Dabbagh, Melina Asadi, Bahar Shadmehri, Kimia Kamyab, Faezeh Izadi, Nazanin Esmikhani, Esra Tavousinia, Sana Tousangi, Yalda Mohammadkhani, Setayesh Samadi, Niousha Hamidi, Shiva Javid, Melika Shahmoradi, Fatemeh-Raha Tajian, Samira Khani, Bahar Hosseini are among the confirmed deaths. There are many more ...
• A name is the last thing a state can take, and the first thing anyone can give back. So repeat them. Today, and next January, when the news has moved on and those who gave the orders are counting on you having forgotten.
@iranhrdc
#SayTheirNames
#Iran
#IranProtests
#GirlsRights #InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#ThroughHerEyes
#IHRDC
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On February 28, 2026, the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, was struck while children were inside. 120 children, aged 6 to 13, were killed. Many of them were girls.
They were at school to learn. Their deaths must not be reduced to anonymous statistics. The circumstances of the strike demand a transparent, independent and thorough investigation.
We remember the children of Minab. Their families deserve truth, justice and accountability.
@iranhrdc
#SayTheirNames
#Minab
#Iran
#GirlsRights
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#ThroughHerEyes
#IHRDC
They were at school to learn. Their deaths must not be reduced to anonymous statistics. The circumstances of the strike demand a transparent, independent and thorough investigation.
We remember the children of Minab. Their families deserve truth, justice and accountability.
@iranhrdc
#SayTheirNames
#Minab
#Iran
#GirlsRights
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#ThroughHerEyes
#IHRDC