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Photos: Morality Police Hunting "Improperly Clothed" Women In Tehran
The "morality police" in Tehran has stepped up enforcement in the capital city. Mostly women are the targets as they are stopped, questioned, or detained by the police for "improper" clothing or makeup. -Armin Karami - 5/18/12
Iranian Woman Activist Nargess Mohammadi Transferred to Zanjan Prison
The Melli-Mazhabi website reports that Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders of Iran, was transferred to Zanjan Prison from the Evin Prison infirmary in Tehran. - 5/18/12
Football championship games opened to Iranian women
Ali Kafashian, the head of Iran's Football Federation, has announced that Iranian women can attend the Asian Youth Football Championship games in Tehran. - 5/13/12
Photos: Iran Darroudi's Exhibition at the Iranian House of Artists in Tehran
Iranian House of Artists in Tehran is holding an exhibition of the works of renowned artist "Iran Darroudi" from May 9 to May 12. Born in 1936, Iran Darroudi, has painted works that she calls the bright lights of Iran. - 5/10/12
Tehran Police Begin New Clothing Crackdown
Tehran Police have begun a new round of patrolling against "inappropriate attire" in public, the head of the force announced. The Mehr News Agency quoted Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia saying: "Confronting bad forms of dressing will be carried out in two parts: producers and importers on one hand and consumers on the other." - 4/28/12
Iranian-American Women's Leadership Conference
The Iranian-American Women's Foundation is proud to host the IAW Women's Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. at the World Bank. The day-long conference will include two general sessions, several breakout sessions, roundtable discussions, mentoring opportunities and a variety of vendors. - 4/26/12
Jailed Iranian lawyer nominated for human rights award
As a lawyer, she defended Iran's top political dissidents. Now she is in jail -- Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer and women's rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh is amongst the nominees of the Martin Ennals Award for 2012. - 4/25/12
Iranian Human Rights Activist To Serve Harsh Sentence
Iranian human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi has been summoned to serve out a six-year prison term. Mohammadi was the deputy head of the Human Rights Defenders Centre, an NGO providing pro-bono legal services in human rights cases. The centre is currently outlawed by the Islamic Republic. - 4/22/12
Iran: Four Women On Trial In Great Fraud Case
Four female suspects stood accused Sunday in the seventh trial session dealing with Iran's $3-billion bank fraud. The Mehr News Agency reports that the four women worked for the Amir Mansour Arya Company as treasurer, accountant, supplier and secretary. - 4/22/12
Haleh Jamali's "Departure" at Toronto for the Arts & Fashion 2012 Festival
In Departure (Video projection), Haleh Jamali collaborates with a performer (Monica De Ioann) in a two large-scale simultaneous projections, which move in coordinated timing and can be projected in single or two-channel projections. - 4/20/12
Photos: Afghans march to protest violence against women
The women in Afghanistan's capital Kabul held a gathering in in front of the Parliament building to protest domestic abuse and to demand justice for women. According to AFP, the women took to the streets following the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country. - 4/15/12
Iran urged to quash prison sentence for 'Mourning Mothers' activist
The Iranian authorities must quash a court ruling sentencing a Tehran woman to four and a half years in prison based on her peaceful human rights activities, Amnesty International said today. - 4/14/12
Iran: Human Rights Defender Nasrin Sotoudeh Denied Furlough, Telephone Contact
Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. - 4/9/12
Iran: Job-splitting plan for women announced
The president's Women's and Family Affairs Centre has announced a plan to divide every office position into two part-time jobs for women, providing them with one-half the usual salary and benefits. - 4/8/12
Iranian ninjas sue Reuters for defamation of character
Last month, Reuters showed a number of Iranian girls training martial arts in a city near Tehran, claiming Iran was training more than 3,000 female ninjas to kill any possible foreign invaders. The distorted Reuters report was picked up by other British media outlets. - 3/29/12
The Iranian Women's Movement Carries On
As people around the world celebrated international women's day on March 8, Iranian women activists interviewed for this occasion said that they believed that the condition of women in Iran has deteriorated while pressure and restrictions on their activities have grown. Despite this though they appeared hopeful and optimistic, contending that their movement would start the new Persian year with vigor and dynamism. -Kaveh Ghoreishi, Rooz - 3/25/12
Iranian Women's Rights Activists Say No To War
Amid talk of possible military strikes from Israel or the United States, a number of Iranian women rights activists have taken to the web to express concern that war, and even the specter of war, exposes the country's females in particular to increased poverty, hardship, and discrimination. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 3/10/12
Iran: Mothers of Laleh Park denounce persecution of activists
Zamaneh reports that the Mothers of Laleh Park released a statement saying: "While the possibility of a humane life is evaporating for Iranian people and especially freedom seekers, the criminals are rising in stature, and there are no fair courts answerable to the people." - 3/10/12
Iranian women second in Kabbadi World Cup
Iran finished at second place in the first Women's Kabaddi World Cup Championship in India on Sunday. The Indian clinched the title by beating Iran 25-19 at the Patlipura Sports Complex at Kankerbagh in Patna. - 3/8/12
Topless Iranian Women 'Say No To Political Islam'
This video of topless Europe-based Iranian women is making the rounds. They say in the video that their nudity "is a 'no' to political Islam." - 3/7/12
Iran: Female students suspended over hijab violations
More than 10 female students at Iran University of Science and Technology (Elm va Sanat) have been suspended from their classes for "failure to adhere to the Islamic dress code." - 3/6/12
Controversial family law passes in Iranian Parliament
Iran's Parliament has passed Article 22 of the controversial family protection act requiring the registration of temporary marriages. The article has been amended however to make registration of temporary marriages only obligatory in certain cases such as those invovling a pregnancy. - 3/6/12
International Football Association Board approves hijab
The eight-man International Football Association Board has given the green light to Islamic female footballers that wish to wear the hijab, or headscarf, during matches. The IFAB agreed in principle in Bagshot, south of London, on Saturday to overturn the decision they took in 2007. - 3/5/12
Photos: Women's Islamic Iranian fashion festival opens in Tehran
The 1st Fajr Fashion Festival, offering a variety of the latest Islamic-Iranian designs, opened on the evenening of Wednesday February 29, 2012 in Tehran's Hejab Hall in the presence of the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance. - 3/3/12
UN Urges FIFA To Overturn Hijab Ban
The ban was introduced five years ago. Iran had to forfeit an Olympic women's qualifier against Jordan last June because Iranian players reportedly refused to play without the hijab. - 3/2/12
Iranian-American Woman Follows Dream to Wealth and Success
"If you have a crazy idea and other people tell you it is crazy, then you know that you are on the right track." That advice to aspiring entrepreneurs comes from an Iranian-American woman who has made a fortune starting and running technology companies. -Phillip Kurata - 2/24/12
Niki Karimi's "Final Whistle" wins three awards at French festival
The Iranian film "Final Whistle", on social and private life interactions, won three awards at the 18th FICA - Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. - 2/24/12
Iranian Authorities Introduce Uniforms For Female Civil Servants
Iranian news agencies report that the uniforms will be designed according to religious and cultural criteria, and that the main colors of the clothing will be navy blue and dark grey. - 2/22/12
Woman Activist On Trial In Tabriz
Iranian women's rights activist Faranak Farid went on trial today in Tabriz as several women writers, poets, lawyers and other activists attended. - 2/22/12
Panel discussion at UCLA: Secularism and Gender in Iran of Today
Sunday, March 04 -- Panel Participants will discuss: "Secular State as the Alternative to the Present State in Iran" and "Woman's Body, a Symbol of Political Changes in Contemporary Iran" - 2/22/12
Iranian journalist sentenced to jail
Iranian journalist Mahsa Amrabadi has been sentenced to a prison term for the second time in the past two years. - 2/21/12
Photos: Permanent Islamic fashion exhibit established in Tehran
A permanent exhibit opened for Islamic Iranian fashion and costume design in Tehran last Monday. The showcase is located on No.38, Nasser valley, off Vali-e Asr Ave. - 2/19/12
Iran's ninja army is made up of 3,500 women
Somewhere in the eastern hemisphere, thousands of female ninjas are being trained for battle. And no, it's not in Japan - or in a new Quentin Tarantino project. -Washington Post - 2/7/12
Will Women Participate in Iran's Parliamentary Elections?
The ninth parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place in the week leading up to International Women's Day, March 8. Iranian women, especially young women who are the majority of Iran's female population and the main protagonists in the arena of struggle for equal rights, will keep protesting against discriminatory laws, knowing full well that they have a long struggle ahead of them on the path to equality. -Khadijeh Moghaddam - 2/6/12
Iran actress wins Henri Langlois award
Renowned Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed-Aria has been awarded at the 2012 edition of Annual Prix Henri Langlois's International Awards in France. - 2/1/12
Women in Egypt Heed Warning From Iranian Women on Rights
With Islamists winning nearly half of the seats in Parliament recently, some Iranian women caution their Egyptian counterparts to learn from their revolution, after which they say they lost rights with the formation of an extreme Islamic state. -Dina Sadek, GPI - 1/31/12
A Question of Methodology: Feminist Studies of Gender and the State in Contemporary Iran
Program at Bernard Center for Research on Women in New York City -- Most feminist studies of post-1979 Iran focus on the legal setbacks that women encountered and their collective strategies for regaining the formal grounds they lost with the establishment of an Islamic Republic in Iran. - 1/30/12
Women's rugby in Iran suffering
"The axe has finally fallen on this shameful women's sport!" This was a headline reported to have appeared in a Tehran newspaper at the end of last week, reporting the apparent end of Iranian women's rugby. -Scrum Queens - 1/27/12
Colour of Love - Artists for Hope: Exhibition in support of the Omid Foundations
Iranian artists have come together to put on an exhibition in support of the Omid Foundations. Show your support by purchasing the donated works of art. Despite their past difficulties, and the obstacles still facing them, the young women at the Omid-e-Mehr center have dreams like all of us. - 1/26/12
And they saw Golshifteh without a cover!
I love Golshifteh Farahani. When I opened my email in the morning, I saw a message from a kind and thoughtful friend who had sent me a link to the French magazine's website Madame Le Figaro featuring a nude photo by Golshifteh. She was as beautiful as ever, if not more! -M. Bibak - 1/19/12
Iranian Actress Breaks Taboos, Sparks Scandal By Posing Topless
An Iranian actress living in Paris has been praised for her courage and criticized for her indecency after posing topless for a French magazine and posting the photo on her Facebook page. Golshifteh Farahani, who moved to France last year, says Iranian authorities have told her not to return home. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 1/19/12
Iranian women's rights activist slain in car near Galleria in Houston
Gelareh Bagherzadeh was studying molecular genetic technology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She was of Iranian descent and was active in promoting Iranian women's rights, Houston Police Department spokesman Victor Senties said. -Houston Chronicle - 1/17/12
Iranian women call for greater representation in Parliament
Iranian women's groups have called on Parliament's Speaker, Ali Larijani, to increase the number of female MPs in the next Parliament, which will be voted on this coming March. - 1/16/12
Iranian teenage girl to compete in Winter Youth Olympics
Iran has been competing in the Winter Olympics since 1956, but never any woman has been sent to participate in the Games, until Marjan Kalhor became the first female Winter Olympian in the history of Iran in 2010. - 1/9/12
Iranian Artists Forum Hosting Parvin Etesami Film Festival
The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) hosted the opening ceremony of the 6th edition of the Parvin Etesami Film Festival on Sunday after a one year hiatus. The festival, named in memory of the Iranian poetess Parvin Etesami, is in its 6th national edition this year. It was elevated to an international event last year. - 1/3/12
Iranian Women's Rights Activist Sentenced To Three Years In Jail
The appeals court in Mazandaran Province, has upheld a three year prison sentence for women's rights and Campaign activist, Fereshteh Shirazi. The sentence was issued in preliminary court hearings by Judge Hassanzadeh in the northern city of Amol. - 1/1/12
Ahmadinejad steps into Iran's dress-code debate
While leading Shiite Muslim clerics advise women to wear chadors - the traditional head-to-toe cloak, usually black - Iran's urban fashionistas increasingly prefer tight-fitting coats and scant head scarves. Now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is stepping into the dispute. -Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post - 12/26/11
Mother Of Iranian Political Prisoner Sentenced To Prison For Publicizing Son's Case
Iran has sentenced the mother of a political prisoner to 23 months in prison apparently for publicizing her son's case in media interviews. Parvin Mokhtare is the mother of human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi. Both mother and son have been in jail for the past five months. - 12/25/11
The 10,000 Women March In Cairo
Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt's ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and stomped on them, and stripped one half-naked in the street during a fierce crackdown on activists the past week. - 12/22/11
Iran's Oldest Female Student: It Is Never Too Late To Learn
An Iranian woman of 65 has decided to continue her studies at university, saying you are never too old to learn. Alaviyeh Robabeh Mojtahed Najafi, now Iran's oldest student, is studying village management engineering at a center of Payame Noor University in the town of Rey, which is located just south of Tehran. - 12/10/11
Call for Solidarity with Iranian Women's Movement: Coming Together with The Butterflies for Peace
The following statement has been endorsed by over 160 prominent Iranian women's rights advocates, activists and scholars living abroad. This was meant to show solidarity with women's rights activists inside Iran and echo their voices internationally. - 12/6/11
Iranian women fight controversial 'polygamy' bill
On a summer night in 2008, the wives of some Iranian members of Parliament started receiving phone calls. "Would you mind if I married your husband - just for a week?" asked the female voice on the end of the line. - 12/1/11
Simin Behbahani: Iran's Foremost Living Poet
This double CD features 15 of Behbahani's most cherished poems, read in the flowing, even tones of her own voice with instrumental accompaniment and English translations read by Susie Ziai. As one of very few recordings of Behbahani's recitations, this unique compilation will no doubt form a treasured part of many collections. - 11/27/11
Iranian Sousan Hajipour wins gold in women Taekwondo
Iranian female athlete Sousan Hajipour has won a gold medal in the World Taekwondo Federation Qualification Tournament to secure a berth in the 2012 London Olympics. - 11/27/11
Photos: Iranian Women Taekwondo Team in Practice
ISNA photographer Mona Hoobehfekr has captured snapshots from the last practice session of Iranian Women Taekwondo Team before their Olympics qualifying matches. - 11/21/11
Ending Violence Against Women is Defending Human rights and Dignity
Social awareness about gender violence, including violence perpetuated against women and girls at home in both immigrant and native communities, has made significant strides during the last three decades, but not significant enough! -Elahe Amani - 11/16/11
Grandmother provides private window on US Iranian elders of the diaspora
For over thirty years Zahra taught Tehran's first graders how to read and write; how to hold a pencil in their hands; and how to become upstanding citizens in a country that later came to be swatted and crushed, pushed, toiled and bombed as it was turned upside down by the ravages of revolution, war and international isolation. -Bahar Mirhosseini, WNN - 11/2/11
Iranian American women find success, celebrate heritage
Conference in Costa Mesa attracts 680 attendees and speakers. Behind the conference that brought together more than 12,000 hours of combined experience and attracted 680 guests was an Iranian American woman who for years dreamed of bringing women from her country under one roof. -Daily Pilot - 10/30/11
Iranian Journalist Parisa Hafezi, winner of 2011 Courage in Journalism Award
Riot police armed with electric batons attacked Parisa Hafezi as she struggled to cover the bloodshed and chaos on the streets of Tehran. Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters marched, with many shouting, "We fight, we die." - 10/30/11
Cartoons: Iranian women in Metro by Elham Ataei Azar
In this cartoon set, Elham Ataei Azar is displaying 31 digitally created artworks about the different characters of women's wagons in Tehran Metro. Ataei Azar held an exhibition in early September in Tehran displaying this group of works as Men Do Not Enter. - 10/28/11
Single-gender hospitals coming to Iranian provinces
Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi has declared that every Iranian province must establish at least one single-gender hospital. - 10/28/11
Iranian-Americans Have a Rare Opportunity to Make History: Sharmin Eshraghi Bock running for San Francisco District Attorney
Sharmin Eshraghi Bock is currently one of the front runners for San Francisco District Attorney. Bock, 49, was born in Iran to Iranian parents, and came to the United States when she was four. Iranian Americans should be watching this race closely, and getting actively involved in the few weeks that remain before the election, because she is poised to pull an upset. - 10/26/11
Courage in Journalism
What follows is my interview with Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, who is being honored by International Women's Media Foundation for her courage to report on the violent protests in Iran after the 2009 election. -Tabby Biddle, Huffington Post - 10/25/11
Iran finishes 2nd in West Asian women's football tourney
Iran lost to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday night in the final of the 4th West Asian Women's Football Championship. - 10/15/11
Iran women Wushu athletes win golds
Iranian women Wushu practitioners have put in excellent performance at the 11th World Wushu Championships in Ankara, Turkey, and captured three gold medals. - 10/14/11
Iran women reach final of football tourney
The Iranian female football team has edged past Jordan in the 4th West Asian Women's Football Championship in the United Arab Emirates to reach the final. - 10/11/11
Photos: Iranian Women Football Team Defeats UAE 4-1
Iranian football players have defeated the United Arab Emirates in the preliminary round of the 4th West Asian Women's Football Championship currently underway in Abu Dhabi. - 10/7/11
Iranian Women's Rights Activist in Prison Without Family Contact
An informed source close to 38-year-old women's rights activist Fereshteh Shirazi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since her arrest on 3 September 2011 in the city of Amol, she has had very little contact with her family. - 10/6/11
Second Annual Iranian-American Women's Leadership Conference
Dedicated to trailblazers, the conference is led by Iranian-American woman who have created their own paths, become pioneers in their fields, and achieved both professional and personal successes. With inspiring panel discussions, this conference aims to educate, invoke courage and creativity, and inspire women to pursue their goals. - 10/5/11
Rare Interview Surfaces With The Wife of Iran's Supreme Leader
Several Iranian websites have posted an interview with the wife of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in which she discusses, among other things, her life with Khamenei, whom she portrays as a caring husband, and talks about her favorite form of Islamic hijab. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 10/5/11
Photos: Iranian Men and Women Canoe Polo Teams Crowned as Champions of Asia
Iranian men and women canoe polo senior teams became champions of Asia in the 14th Canoe Polo Asian Championships and World Qualifying games held in Tehran from September 29th to October 2nd. - 10/3/11
Photos: Iranian Women Canoe Polo Team Defeats Taiwan in Asian Championship
Iranian women canoe polo team, current champions of Asia, displayed their superiority by defeating Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 11-1 in their first Asian Championship match in Tehran. Some are calling the high score a revenge for the loss of Iranian men's team to the Chinese Taipei team earlier in a close 6-7 match. -Omid Vahabzadeh - 9/30/11
Iranian Woman Activist Sentenced to 11 Years in Jail
Nargess Mohammadi, the deputy head of Iran's Human Rights Defenders Centre and chief executive of the National Council of Peace, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Islamic Republic judiciary. - 9/28/11
Saudi women given the right to vote
The Saudi King has given women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, which are the only public elections in Saudi Arabia. - 9/26/11
Social media gives women a voice in Iran
Female protesters were beaten, raped and intimidated in a post-election crackdown by the Iranian authorities. Silenced by stigma and fear, these women are now using social media to bear witness to the horror -Julie Tomlin, Guardian - 9/24/11
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