Article 21

The government must ensure the rights of women in all respects, in conformity with Islamic criteria, and accomplish the following goals:
  1. create a favorable environment for the growth of woman's personality and the restoration of her rights, both the material and intellectual;
  2. the protection of mothers, particularly during pregnancy and childbearing, and the protection of children without guardians;
  3. establishing competent courts to protect and preserve the family;
  4. the provision of special insurance for widows, and aged women and women without support;
  5. the awarding of guardianship of children to worthy mothers, in order to protect the interests of the children, in the absence of a legal guardian.