Access is denied: a report on the status of the internet in Iran

The report published by an Iran CSOs Training and Research Center discusses the advent and development of the internet in Iran, censorship and its methods, weblogs and their role in the civil society. The study also elaborates the classification of filtered websites, where among the top of keywords subjected to censorship are words related to women, gender,or sexuality. As documented by the study, the content filtering basically blocs all content concerning women, including sites with information on women's health, education, violence against women, or gender issues.