Articles

“A crime remaining unpunished” is an article by Elham Zanjani, member of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran which appeared on January 28, 2019, in the Scoop, an independent news outlet in New Zealand.…
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The mullahs’ misogynist regime has uprooted a tree which stood for the courage and determination of the PMOI/MEK women in their struggle to free Iran by toppling the regime. Thirty years ago, Tahereh Tolou, a PMOI freedom-fighter who had…
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Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee sent out an open letter from the Women's Ward of Evin Prison enumerating the ups and downs of the struggle of the people of Iran and their pains and sufferings. Following are excerpts of her letter:…
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A year into the uprising, it is befitting to have a glance on women’s role in a year of persistent protests in Iran. On December 28, 2017, some 10,000 people took to the streets of Mashhad to protest against skyrocketing prices while the…
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In an open letter published on December 20, 2018, Ms. Parvin Mohammadi, former representative of workers of Iran Metal Industries and member of the Board of Directors of the Free Union of Iranian workers, harshly criticized the regime for…
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From the first day of the religious dictatorship in Iran, its misogynistic and repressive laws have been materialized in a visible symbol, the compulsory veil. This was the first icon, the tip of an iceberg of widespread violations of all…
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Women’s rights are human rights. December 10 is the Human Rights Day and marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which stipulates the rights all human beings are entitled to. In Iran ruled by a theocratic…
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Overlooking women’s rights is institutionalized under the clerical regime in Iran. Likewise, disabled women in Iran face additional indifference when it comes to administrative promotion of their rights and well-being. The annual…
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Compulsory veil, the state-sponsored most common VAM in Iran The most common form of violence against women in Iran is the state-sponsored measures to impose the compulsory veil. Dozens of video clips were posted on the social media…
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Women joined extensively in the second round of nationwide strikes and sit-ins of teachers and educators held on November 13 and 14, 2018, in schools in over 40 cities in Iran. Women also got arrested in the wave of crackdown on teachers in…
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