U.S. Quiet On Iran Women President Bar - The United States has declined to take a firm stand after a member of Iran's electoral overseer said women will be barred from standing in Iran's June presidential election. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would not comment on specific candidates. She also noted that Iranian authorities must approve all candidates. - 5/18/13
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Three Iranian-Americans among the 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech - Women are (relatively) few and far between in the tech industry. So it is quite an achievement for three Iranian-American women (Soraya Darabi, Parisa Tabriz and Roxanne Varza), to have made it to the list of the most important women 30 years old or under in tech compiled by the Business Insider. - 5/5/13
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Unemployment on the rise among Iranian women - Hossein Mahjoub told Shargh Newspaper that women workers now constitute 15 to 17 percent of workers in the country and claimed that the administration has been "hiding" the true statistics with regards to employment. - 5/2/13
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Photos: Morality Police In Tehran Play Good Cop by Handing Out Flowers to Women - The morality police in Tehran are playing the good cop these days. They are out in the streets handing flowers to women to promote "good hijab." But the bad cops may be out soon detaining the women with "bad hijab," as they have been doing so in the past months and years. - 5/1/13
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The 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech: Roxanne Varza - Roxanne Varza currently runs some of Microsoft's startup-related initiatives in Europe, specifically its BizSpark and Spark programs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Varza worked as the editor of TechCrunch France. -Business Insider - 4/30/13
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Through Story, a Look into Iran: Newsha Tavakolian's Portraiture - Look is a devastating portrait of a middle-class in decline, squeezed by economic pressure at home, and dwindling access to the world, a generation of young people whose lives are not reduced to the twilight hour of melancholy that Tavakolian captures, but marred by it. -Azadeh Moaveni, TIME - 4/24/13
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Is the Hijab Responsible for Iran's Spike in MS Cases? - Multiple sclerosis has skyrocketed in Tehran, increasing almost sevenfold between 1989 and 2005. In Iran's central province of Isfahan, the incidence nearly tripled from 2005 to 2009. Now Oxford University researchers suggest, for the first time, that the 1979 Iranian Revolution may deserve some of the blame for the extraordinary jump. -Libby Copeland, Smithsonian magazine - 4/24/13
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Iranian doctor greatest world woman inventor in 2013 - Dr. Zahra Alizadeh Thani, an Iranian doctor from Mashad Medical Science University received the award of the greatest world woman inventor in Geneva International Festival for Inventions in year 2013. - 4/17/13
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Photos: Village Women in Andika, Iran - These photos show the village women of Andika region of Khuzestan province in Iran, some wearing their colorful traditional dresses. The living conditions in many Iranian villages is still very primitive, and the villagers are deprived of many things the people in the city take for granted. - 4/15/13
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Iran hijab singer angers ultraconservatives - Winners usually take it all, the prize and the fame. But for 31-year-old Iranian singer Ermia Va Majid, it is a rather different climb to victory and fame. Ermia was declared the grand winner of the Iranian version of X-Factor, Googosh Academy -Al Arabiya - 3/31/13
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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