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In A Historic Declaration, UN Condemns Violence Against Women
Muslim and Western countries have approved a new United Nations declaration aimed at combatting violence against women and girls. The nonbinding declaration, adopted by consensus by the UN Commission on the Status of Women, says that violence against females cannot be justified or ignored by any "custom, tradition, or religious consideration." - 3/16/13
International Women's Day, 8 March 2013: Women's rights: time to turn decades of empty promises into concrete changes for women
Two key groups of independent experts within the United Nations Human Rights system urged world governments, on International Women's Day, to commit decisively to women's rights and turn decades of empty promises into concrete changes for women and girls around the world. - 3/8/13
Cherishing Gender Equality and Culture of Human Rights
The freedom from discrimination is well recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 2: "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status..." - 3/8/13
Iranian contemporary artist Farideh Lashai dies at 68
One of the most important and famous Iranian contemporary female artists in Iran and in the world, a translator and writer, Farideh Lashai died on Sunday (February 24), after a long battle with cancer at the age of 68. Despite her illness, she continued her artistic activity until the last days. - 2/25/13
Proposed Bill To Limit Iranian Women's Travel Reportedly Canceled
The proposed changes to the country's passport law were introduced in the 290-seat Majlis last year and would have required single women up to the age of 40 to obtain official permission from their father or male guardian before they could acquire foreign travel documents. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 2/23/13
The Day of Women and Earth: The Festival of Spandarmad
Spenta Armaiti was one of the six great Amesha Spentas (holy immortals) who with Ahura Mazda made up the Zoroastrian Heptad that dominated the Zoroastrian cosmology of the Sasanian period. Armaiti means devotion and this female deity represented Holy Devotion and Bounteous. Her task was to guide people to good life and to salvation, and also nurturing of creatures. -Massoume Price - 2/14/13
Iranian players are talented: Women's football coach Helena Costa
Iran women's football coach Helena Costa said that the Iranian players are so talented. "The Iranian players are so talented but they need to improve their tactical skills as well," the Portuguese said. - 2/4/13
IRAN: Rights defender Ms. Mansoureh Behkish begins prison term
After years of protesting Iran's human rights violations of political prisoners, Mansoureh Behkish is scheduled today to become a political prisoner herself. Behkish has been summoned by the Iranian authorities to report to the Evin prison in Tehran, Iran on 29 January 2013 to start a six-month sentence for her involvement with the nonviolent Mourning Mothers movement. -WNN - 1/30/13
Lawyer and Women's Rights Activist Hopes Discriminatory Passport Law Does Not Pass
According to lawyer and women's rights activist Farideh Gheirat the new Passport and Exit Law bill, which will make it mandatory for girls and women to have the approval of their "guardian" to exit the country, is at odds with the Iranian Constitution. - 1/22/13
Internet Gender Gap Hurts World's Economy, Study Finds
The Internet gender gap is hurting the world's economy as well as millions of women across the globe, says a newly released, groundbreaking study. -Jane Morse - 1/22/13
Jailed Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh given first furlough
Nasrin Sotoudeh, the jailed Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, has been given a furlough for the first time since she was jailed in September of 2010. Her husband, Reza Khadan, reported on his Facebook page that his wife has been given a three-day furlough starting today and is currently with her family. - 1/18/13
Iran Parliament Mulls New Restrictions On Women's Travel
The national security committee of the Iranian parliament is considering a bill that could place further limits on the already restricted right of Iranian women to travel. Women over the age of 18 need the written consent of their father or guardian to obtain a passport. Married women must receive their husband's approval to receive the documents. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 1/16/13
Khomeini's Granddaughter On Iran's 'Critical Situation,' Sanctions, Facebook
According to Zahra Eshraghi, whose grandfather, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founded the Islamic republic, Iran "is on the edge of the precipice." She said politicians should find a solution quickly to the crisis the country is facing, though it may be too late. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 1/15/13
Maryam Mirzakhani Receives 2013 AMS Satter Prize
Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, is receiving the 2013 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. Presented every two years by the American Mathematical Society, the Satter Prize recognizes an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the preceding five years. - 1/15/13
Women enter Iran Riot Police
Commander of Iran Riot Police says Women's Unit in the Riot Police has been operational and that cavalry and SEPKA (Iran Investigation Police Dogs) units are ready for the containing the riots. - 1/15/13
Irandokht: Daughters of Iran
In the autumn of 2005, Najaf Shokri was on his way to work when he made an intriguing discovery in a rubbish bin near his house in downtown Tehran. The bin, outside a branch of the National Civil Registrations Organisation, was filled with old national identification documents, all issued in 1942 and long expired. -Sourena Parham, Guardian - 1/14/13
Iran: Reports of sexual crimes on the rise
Criminal Task Force Deputy Hadi Mostafayi said that in the past nine months, a new policy encouraging victims to file charges and the deployment of female officers in order to protect the victims' identity have led to the large increase in the number of sexual assault cases reported. - 12/31/12
The Women's Ward for Prisoners of Conscience in Mashhad, Iran
Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad was thrust into the spotlight when news emerged that secret mass executions were carried out there over the past two years. However, in this same institution a number of prisoners of conscience are serving sentences whose names have never appeared in the media. -Kyan Sabeti - 12/30/12
Iranian MP Says Russian Women At Bushehr Not Wearing Hijab
An Iranian lawmaker is complaining that Russian women technicians at the Bushehr nuclear power plant are being paid to adhere to a strict Islamic dress code, but are routinely violating that code. - 12/25/12
Jailed Iranian lawyer allowed to attend mother's burial
The We-change website reports that Safouri Fakhrian, the mother of jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was laid to rest on Saturday December 22, and her daughter was allowed to attend the occasion for three hours. - 12/23/12
Sanctions: Silent War - Iranian Artist's 'Pill Protest' Highlights Harmful Side Effects Of Sanctions
Young Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi has a mission: to raise awareness of the impact crippling international sanctions are having on ordinary Iranians, especially those living with illnesses. She took the first step this week, setting up a small performance-art protest across the street from UN headquarters in New York. -Courtney Brooks, RFE - 12/22/12
Iran's female shooting team wins silver medal
The Iranian female shooting team became vice-champion of trapshooting in India's clay pigeon shooting competitions by winning the sport event's silver medal, the secretary of Iran's Shooting Federation said. - 12/10/12
Tehran gallery hangs works of three generations of female Iranian painters
Works of three generations of female Iranian painters were put on display in an exhibition at Tehran's Mellat Gallery on Friday evening. One hundred works by 47 artists have been selected for the exhibit entitled "Alternative View", the gallery announced in a press release on Sunday. - 12/9/12
Iran: Women's Right Activists Demonstrate in Tehran for Nasrin Sotoudeh
Scores of Iranian women's rights activists gathered in front of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office on Sunday December 2 to call for proper handling of the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the jailed lawyer who has been on a hunger strike for close to 50 days. - 12/3/12
Taking Risks in Art and Politics
Over the past two decades, Shirin Neshat has drawn on her personal experience of being an artist at home in the West with roots in Iran to illustrate her creed: "People should be free to choose what they want to do with their lives, what they want to wear, what religion they want to believe in; this is not something a government or a community should impose." -NY Times - 11/29/12
Jailed Iranian Rights Lawyer On 'Unlimited' Hunger Strike
Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has reportedly been on hunger strike for more than a month, appears determined to continue her protest indefinitely. Her husband, Reza Khandan, has written on his Facebook page that Sotoudeh told him on November 20 that she was on an "unlimited" hunger strike. - 11/22/12
Iran's Parliament agrees to restriction on women's travel
Iranian Parliament has passed a bill barring single women under 40 from leaving the country without permission from a legal guardian. - 11/20/12
Iran's "Final Whistle" named best film at Mannheim-Heidelberg festival
"Final Whistle", an Iranian drama on social and private life interactions, was crowned best film at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany on Monday. Directed by Niki Karimi, the movie went on screen at the international section of the festival. - 11/20/12
Iran Deputies To Mull Draft Law Restricting Women's Right To Travel
Lawmakers in Iran are preparing to consider legislation that may drastically alter an adult woman's ability to obtain a passport and travel outside the country. -Roya Karimi and Daisy Sindelar, RFE - 11/16/12
Jailed Iranian lawyer on hunger strike gets visit with children
Jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has finally been allowed a visit with her two children. The Kaleme opposition website reports that the visit took place in the presence of security forces, and Sotoudeh's daughter reported that her mother "has lost weight and is taken to the infirmary on occasion." - 11/13/12
Social Order: Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan
This important exhibition (at Photo Center NW in Seattle) features five contemporary women artists whose work explores the role of women in the context of cultural constructs, religion, censorship and the media. This exhibition draws powerful parallels and invites us all to reconsider our personal roles as advocates of tolerance and diversity in our cities. - 11/12/12
Guards replaced at women's section of Evin Prison
After nine female political prisoners went on a hunger strike to protest against their mistreatment by prison guards, reports indicate that guards in the women's ward of Evin Prison have been replaced. - 11/11/12
Iranian specialists highly capable for tissue, organ transplant: Dr. Katayoun Najafizadeh
Zanjan, IRAN- Head of the Iran Transplant Organ Procurement (Iran-TOP) Dr. Katayoun Najafizadeh said on Saturday that Iranian specialists have necessary knowledge and expertise for tissue and organ transplant. - 11/10/12
Jailed Iranian Women Stop Hunger Strike
Sources in Tehran say that eight female inmates in Evin prison have stopped their hunger strike and plan to pursue legal action against prison guards whom they accuse of mistreating them. - 11/7/12
Hunger strike in the women's ward of Evin, and empty frame of Raheleh Zokayi
Nine female political prisoners began a hunger strike on October 31, 2012, to protest the "insulting" treatment they suffered at the hands of their guards at Evin Prison in Tehran. In all the photos and posters that have been published regarding the news about these women, only eight of them are pictured. - 11/7/12
Iran: Nine Female Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Bahareh Hedayat's husband tells Rooz, "Bahareh has always been opposed to hunger strike. She had even spoken several times to Nasreen Sotoudeh to convince her to break her hunger strike, but now the situation is so heart-wrenching and despicable that she has been forced to go on hunger strike." -Fereshteh Ghazi - 11/3/12
Nine more Iranian political prisoners refusing food
The Kaleme opposition website reports that nine female prisoners at Iran's Evin Prison have begun a hunger strike to protest a raid of their ward by security guards. - 11/1/12
Study Shows Progress In Closing Gender Gap
According to a new study, no country in the world has yet achieved gender equality but the majority of them have made slow progress on closing gaps. However, near the bottom of the ranking, Iran slips to the 127th position due to a worsening of the estimated earned income ratio. - 10/25/12
A Lifetime of Activism
Growing up in the Iranian home of two educators provided Elahe Amani plenty of opportunities to learn she could be anything she wanted to be - and education would be the key. -Pamela McLaren, CSU, Fullerton - 10/19/12
Jailed lawyer on hunger strike
Nasrin Sotoudeh, the jailed Iranian human rights lawyer, has been on a hunger strike since last week, her husband informed the Kaleme opposition website. - 10/18/12
Iranian-American Fashion Star Draws Inspiration From Persia
Al-Monitor met on the sidelines of Paris' fashion week with Leila Yavari - an Iranian-American former political science Ph.D. student at Berkley turned fashion model, turned fashion director for StyleBop.com. - 10/15/12
Nine Rubies: Hidden Stories of a woman's life in Iran revealed through unique bond of trust between two American moms
In 1990 two mothers sat in a modest Connecticut kitchen enjoying a spring day and the usual conversation of getting to know someone new. It turned out out that their common passions of family, children, gardening and heritage would become the pathway by which Mahru would start to share personal stories that bespoke the gulf between rich and poor, the plight of women, personal struggle and self-determination. - 10/14/12
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art enriches collection with another Iranian artwork
"Family Paradise" was painted in 2008 and is part of the Burning Wings series in which Farah Osuli explores aspects of the unfortunate situation of women and questions of identity. - 10/11/12
Iran: Ensure Equal Access to Higher Education
The Iranian government should immediately reverse policies that place unnecessary restrictions on academic freedom for university students, in particular women. Some of these "Islamicization" measures are to be introduced for the new academic year, which begins on September 22, 2012. Others have been put in place in recent years and adopted by universities across the country. -HRW - 9/22/12
Iran: "Anti-Woman" Tradition Kept From Official List
Iranian women's rights activists have scored a victory by keeping a local tradition from being enshrined in Iran's National Heritage registry list - a tradition that involves ending blood feuds between families by forcing a woman from one family to marry into the other. - 9/20/12
Cleric Beaten Up By 'Badly Veiled' Woman
"Ipolitely [told] her to cover herself up," said Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, an Iranian cleric in the city of Shamirzad in Semnan Province, describing a recent encounter with a woman he believed was improperly veiled. "She responded to me by saying: 'You [should] close your eyes.'" -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 9/18/12
Leave No Iranian Child Behind: From Gender Gap to Gender Panic
As young women's presence in higher education grows, so does ideological backlash. -Shervin Malekzadeh, Tehran Bureau - 9/15/12
Exhibition: Homa Arkani's "Share Me"
These images of young girls who have so thoroughly immersed in their fantastic world demonstrate the crisis of identity amongst the middle-class new generation of Iranian women. As one treads a path among these flamboyant features one easily identifies them as stereotypical adolescent city girl in today Iran... - 9/7/12
Iran's Zahra Nemati wins archery gold at 2012 Paralympics
Recurve Archer Zahra Nemati won the gold medal in women's individual W1/W2 class event at 2012 London Paralympics. She defeated Elisabetta Mijno of Italy 7-3 in the final to claim the gold. - 9/4/12
Iranian woman Shahrbanu Mansourian wins gold medal in World Wushu Championships
At the 12th World Wushu Championships taking place in Vietnam, Mansourian defeated her Vietnamese adversary in the finals of the 70 kg category, winning the first gold medal for the Iranian National Wushu team this year. - 8/23/12
Female Iranian jazz band plans to perform in Tehran
The female Iranian jazz band NET plans to give concerts in Tehran in the near future. Comedy actress Behnush Bakhtiari will be the guest singer of the band during the performances, band leader Zahra Ameli told ISNA on Wednesday. - 8/23/12
Nobel laureate calls on UN to protect Iranian women
Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has written to the United Nations to protest the Islamic Republic's recent policies toward women. Ebadi claims the Iranian government is trying to limit the active presence of women in society. - 8/21/12
12 women's hospitals established in Iran
Minister of Health and Medical Education announced on Tuesday that so far 12 women's hospitals have been established by medical sciences universities across the country including three in Tehran, one in Isfahan, one in Mashhad and one in Shiraz. - 8/21/12
Farzaneh Milani Awarded for Book on Iranian Women's Struggle for 'Freedom of Movement'
University of Virginia professor Farzaneh Milani has been recognized with two international awards this summer related to her career and the publication of her most recent book, "Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement." -Rob Seal, UVA Today - 8/15/12
Ambrosia: A story of contemporary relationships, values and choices
Ambrosia is a Canadian film directed by Iranian woman Baharak Saeid Monir in Vancouver. It stars Sahar Biniaz (Miss Universe Canada 2012) and Camyar Chai. The film makes its world premiere at Montreal World Film festival in August. - 8/15/12
Iranian Science Minister to explain reduced female enrollment
The head of the Education and Research Commission of Iran's Parliament has announced that Iran's Science Minister has been summoned to Parliament to explain the recent restrictions against the acceptance of women in a number of university programs. - 8/10/12
Iran's Female Olympians Face Extra Hurdles
Although the Iranian government has permitted some women's teams to participate in international competitions, it greatly restricts their participation in domestic games. -Solmaz Sharif, Huffington Post - 8/10/12
Fewer female students admitted to Iranian university
Yazd University has limited its acceptance of women in engineering programs for the coming academic year. ILNA reports that women are now completely barred from the civil and mechanical engineering programs, and the acceptance of new female applicants is down by nearly 25 percent in several programs. - 8/9/12
Iranian women excluded from vast areas of study
With the announcement of university entrance exam results for the coming academic year in Iran, 36 universities have closed 77 fields of study to women. - 8/6/12
Reaction to the Undressing of a Woman at Tehran's Khomeini Airport: "The Turn of the Spouses of the Ayatollahs Will Come"
A news report by Baztab website wrote that security agents at Imam Khomeini airport outside Tehran, "undressed a veiled woman," an action that was extraordinary by all measures. The site reported that Iranian families had contacted it over the unusual and un-Islamic measure of the airport police. -Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah, Rooz - 8/6/12
OLYMPICS: Iranian Woman Shooter Mahlagha Jambozorg Finishes 14th
Iran's Mahlagha Jambozorg finished 14th in the women's shooting 50m rifle 3 x 20 competition on Saturday. Jamie Gray of the United States won the gold medal and Serbia's Ivana Maksimovic won the silver. Czech Republic's Adela Sykorova won the bronze. Iran's Elaheh Ahmadi finished at 43rd. - 8/4/12
France's top honor granted to Iranian actress Leila Hatami
France has honored the celebrated Iranian actress Leila Hatami with an Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal. - 8/4/12
The Growth of the 'No to Mandatory Hijab' Campaign
"Hijab is not mandatory even on Muslim women, let alone on other religious minorities. What requirement? How have our women lived in the villages from the days when Islam appeared? They didn't wear the chador..." These are the words of ayatollah Taleghani a month after the Pahlavi monarchy was toppled in 1979 by revolution - Fereshteh Ghazi - 8/1/12
Jailed Iranian activist Nargess Mohammadi released on bail
Jailed human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi was finally given a temporary furlough today on bail of 600 million toumans. Mohammadi, who reportedly suffers from periodic muscle paralysis, had fallen in prison and sustained injuries to her face. - 8/1/12
OLYMPICS: Iranian female shooter Elaheh Ahmadi 6th in Shooting 10m air rifle
Elaheh Ahmadi from Iran finished sixth in the women's Shooting 10m air rifle with 499.1 points at the 2012 London Games on Saturday. - 7/28/12
Turkish Talk Show Host Creates Polygamy Stir
In Turkey, a well-known women's talk show host has provoked ire among some Turks by offering a friend as a second wife to her husband. The overture thrust polygamy into the national spotlight. - 7/28/12
Hollywood actors of high moral standards will be hired for "Laleh" project: Iranian producer
The director of Iran's Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) said on Tuesday that only Hollywood actors with high moral standards would be hired for "Laleh", a controversial movie project about the first Iranian female race car driver, Laleh Seddiq. - 7/27/12
Photos: Morality Police In Iran Hand Out Flowers For "Good Hijab"
The morality police in Iran's Golestan province was playing the good cup today. They were out in the streets handing flowers to women with "good hijab." Will the bad cups be out tomorrow detaining the women with "bad hijab," as they have been doing in the previous days and weeks? - 7/26/12
Photos: Eshrat Kaveh Keeps Spinning...
Eshrat Kaveh was born in the village of Rouein in Bojnord, Iran. When she was 12, she started working alongside the mother, and she learned the art of spinning and textile making from her. For the past 32 years, Eshrat has been earning her living by creating beautiful textiles. -Ata Ranjbar - 7/25/12
Iran's birth control policy sent birthrate tumbling
Since the 1980s, Iran has experienced the largest and fastest drop in fertility ever recorded - from about seven births per woman to fewer than two today. "It confounded all conventional wisdom that it could happen in one of the world's few Islamic republics," said Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, a demographer at the University of Tehran. -Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times - 7/24/12
Photos: A Carwash Run by Women in Tabriz, Iran
A carwash has recently started operation in Tabriz, northwestern Iran. What's unique about this carwash is it is operated entirely by women. Iranian women are present in many fields in the society and economy. But an all-woman carwash is a first for them! -Mahsa Jamali - 7/23/12
Struggle over what to wear in Iran
An annual test of wills between Iran's morality police and women who dress in ways that are deemed unacceptable has begun in cities across the Islamic republic. But this year, the stakes are unusually high. -Jason Rezaian, Washington Post - 7/23/12
Photos: Iran's Female Motocross Champion Noora Naraghi
Iranian woman Nora Naraghi won her country's motorcross racing championship in 2009. She then traveled to USA in 2010 to pursue her motocross racing dream. To learn how to ride and race motocross from Stefy Bau, former 2 time Women's World Motocross Champion and owner/instructor of 211 MX school. -Mehrnaz Mohammadi - 7/22/12
Sahar Fathi: Candidate for State Representative in Washington's 36th district
If she is elected, she will be the first Iranian American to ever serve in the state's legislature: "I am running for this seat because I believe we need new energy, fresh ideas, and more diverse representation in the state legislature to solve the challenges we face today." - 7/21/12
Photos: Morality Police Display Of Force In Tehran
Once again the morality police displayed a strong presence in Tehran on Monday afternoon by placing units in major squares, shopping and recreation centers in order to combat women with improperly dressed women and even the mannequins! - 7/18/12
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