About 3,000 Iranian women are serving as rural executives across the country with Khorasan Razavi province in the northeast and Sistan and Baluchestan province in the southeast having the highest number of female local government heads.  According to Deputy Head of Iran’s Rural Councils Department Saeid-Reza Jandaghian, over the past one hundred years, Iran has...Read More

Iran’s Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs says the hundreds of governmental and non-governmental organizations working in the fields of women rights are ‘national assets’ of the country.  In an address to a Saturday ceremony in the Centre for Peace and Environment in Tehran, Massoumeh Ebtekar said there are lots of such organizations in Iran...Read More

Iran’s flag-carrier airline Iran Air is set to recruit female pilots for the first time in the country’s history.  Farzaneh Sharafbafi, the female CEO of Iran Air (Homa), said the airline annually publishes a job vacancy advertisement to recruit new pilots. The main feature of this year’s advertisement is the possibility for female pilots to...Read More

 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Iran for structural economic reforms for enabling the private sector to grow and to create the jobs required to address youth unemployment and raise incomes. The remarks were made in an IMF report concluding the 2018 Article IV consultation with the Islamic Republic of Iran which was held...Read More

A group of women activists, the Institute for the Protection of Women’s Rights attended on March 17, 2018 at the Tehran Jewish Association located in the region of the Republic, and with the chairman of the Jewish Association of Tehran Mr. Dr. Homayoun Same Yeh Najaf Abadi, Religious Reference and Rabbi Mr. Dr. Hamami, Internal...Read More

Iran’s Vice-Presidency for Women and Family Affairs has organized a benefit concert in Tehran to raise funds for the release of incarcerated moms as part of a campaign called “Prison No Place for Mothers”.  The musical performance was given by the all-female band “Sound of Naerika” at Tehran’s Eyvan Shams Hall on Thursday night. All...Read More

 Iran’s Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Massoumeh Ebtekar has called for the establishment of a network among governments, parliaments, NGOs, and women activists to promote peace and security not only in the Middle East but at the internat  Ebtekar, who was addressing the closing ceremony of International Event on “Women, Sustainable Peace and Security”...Read More

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message hailed women’s campaign in against violence.  The International Conference on Women, Peace and Sustainable Security was held from March 7-8 at the Institute for Political and International Studies. Activists in the field of women’s affairs from Lebanon, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan and India attended the event....Read More

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says women are at the forefront of the campaign against violence and hate.  Addressing the “International Event on Women, Sustainable Peace and Security” held on Thursday in Tehran, Zarif underlined that women can be the standard-bearers of building a new thought, a new attitude and a new viewpoint based...Read More

IRNA – The first Iranian film festival was held in Malaysia on Monday night. The event was organized by Iranian cultural attaché office in Malaysia. Iran envoy to Malaysia Marzieh Afkham, cultural attaché Ali Mohammad Sabeqi, foreign ambassadors, Iranian actress Merila Zareie and Iranian residents in Kuala Lumpur attended the event. The festival was held...Read More