Iran and Sweden stressed implementing joint MoUs in women-related fields Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, made the remarks Tuesday in a meeting with Sweden’s envoy to Tehran Helena Sångeland. During the meeting, she pointed to violence against women and children, and called for urgent measures to remove them. Iranian Vice...Read More
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has put a woman cyclist from Iran at the top of the Asian ranking for the second consecutive year. Faranak Parto Azar with 321 points in the cross-country cycling field ranked first in Asia and 86th in the world, head of Fars Province Cycling Association Hadi Ba Shafaat said on Saturday....Read More
More women than men live in poverty, but the incidence of poverty differs by age, marital status, household composition and other factors. For the first time, UN Women and the World Bank have analyzed household survey data for 89 countries by sex, age, household composition and other relevant variables to better understand the profile of...Read More
Tehran, Oct 7, IRNA – Iranian woman Mojdeh Tabari became member of the board of directors of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial and...Read More
A number of Iranian parliament’s female lawmakers discussed mutual cooperation and parliamentary relations with Irish Senate delegation. Zahra Saei, a member of parliament’s women faction said during the meeting that women will play a crucial role in further development of Iran-Ireland ties. Elaborating on the faction’s activities, she said that Iran has made remarkable progress in the field of...Read More
The institute for the Protection of Women’s Rights, as a women’s rights NGO, tries to improve women’s rights in society. Actually, reviewing problems of women in prison has been the demands and concerns of women in scientific meetings and conferences. There were several key questions for women’s rights activists at the institute: First, what are...Read More
Anousheh Ansari (born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. In 2001 in a stock-for-stock transaction for 10.8 million shares of Sonus stock. Anousheh Ansari became “a vice president of Sonus...Read More
The Press Exhibition is an arena for dialog… It is an opportunity to be used for both explaining the capacities and roles played by the press and print media to the public and authorities, and the enhancement of [existing] capacities. It is the largest annual press festival in Iran with a miscellany of media from...Read More
Expert’s take: Old age — a double whammy for women? Silke Staab joined the UN Women Research and Data team as a Research Specialist in 2014, and is one of the authors of Progress of the World’s Women. Silke is a political scientist, and completed her PhD focusing on social policies and gender equality in Chile...Read More
