Access to justice in Iran: women, perceptions, and reality

Abstract

Access of Women to Justice and Legal EmpowermentT he analysis of women's access to justice, with particular reference to their legal empowerment in the setting of an Islamic state such as Iran, is not an easy task.However, I want to suggest that it is equally important to distinguish and highlight the impact of sociocultural dimensions of inaccessibility that women face on their path to justice.In light of the discussion in the previous chapter, which reviewed barriers to access to justice without any particular reference to women, the present chapter examines gender-specifi c barriers to access to justice.The chapter also provides a conceptual analysis of empowerment and specifi cally attempts to conceptualise the legal empowerment of women.The chapter fi rst presents a detailed analysis of the key components that constitute Iranian women's access to justice.Second, it analyses some of the key genderspecifi c barriers women might face in the quest to solve their problems and then explains how the concept can be reduced to measurable elements to maximise the access of Iranian women to justice.

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