Legislative criminal policies against the prohibition of violence against women in Iranian law and international instruments

Violence against women as one of the most widespread human rights abuses, has always been of interest to the international community, especially women's rights advocates. This has attracted the attention and sensitivity of various governments, including Iran, and has led to the enactment of numerous international laws, treaties, and documents aimed at curbing violence against women. According to this issue in the present study which has been done by analytical and descriptive methods, we want to review and analyze the existing Iranian laws and international documents on the prohibition of violence against women. The question that this study seeks to answer is what are the existing legislative criminal policies regarding violence against women? In fact, in answer to this question, the research findings show that that Iran's legislative criminal policy towards the prohibition of violence against women in different eras with the influence of treaties, conferences, resolutions, declarations, recommendations and numerous meetings by the United Nations and governments in the field Nationally, regionally and internationally, it has had different approaches in different laws, contrary to international documents. The results of the present study also indicate that the Iranian legislature, in its legislative criminal policy against the prohibition of violence against women, has three approaches: the principle of equality, positive discrimination and negative discrimination, and international instruments in their legislative criminal policy approach to the principle of equality and Recent decades have also focused on a supportive approach.