In a dramatic gesture of public protest, 32-year-old Mohaved stood on top of a utility box in Tehran in 2017, took off her hijab and...

The vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center that Ebadi founded, Mohammadi has called for mass feminist civil disobedience...

As a journalist in Iran covering politics, Alinejad was targeted by government officials. The newspaper she worked for was shut down. In...

Riahi was one of the first celebrities who took off her hijab amidst the 2022 nationwide protests and in support of the people wrote:...

Sarina Esmailzadeh is alleged by human rights organizations to have been beaten to death in Karaj, Iran in 2022 while protesting women’s...

Ebadi, a distinguished lawyer, human rights activist and judge from Iran, now lives in asylum in London. She is the founder of The Center...

In the making of this website, I was able to correspond with Roya Hakakian, an Iranian American Jewish journalist, lecturer, and writer,...