Question follow-through · 53111
Iran: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with exiled Iranian opposition leaders on women’s freedom in Iran.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with exiled Iranian opposition leaders on women’s freedom in Iran.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
We continue to stand with Iranian women and girls in their daily fight for equal rights. The UK was instrumental in delivering the Iran human rights resolution, adopted by the UN Third Committee in November 2024, which called on Iran to release women huma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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