This year, March 8 is marked amid the catastrophe of the war of aggression unleashed by US Imperialism and its child-killer accomplice, and the bombardment of the people of Iran. March 8, International Women’s Day, the day to honour the long and arduous struggle of women for equal rights and liberation from gender-based violence and […]
DOIW has issued a statement and called on affiliate members of WIDF and all progressive women to campaign for an end to this war of aggression. As you know this morning, Saturday 29th February 2026, while high level negotiations appeared to be on-going between representatives of USA and Iran, our homeland became the target of […]
The Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women condemns US threats and actions against the people of Cuba. Since the victory of the Cuban people’s revolution and the banishment of Batista in 1959, US imperialism has done its best to undermine it and to impose its will on its small and defiant neighbour. The Trump administration’s reinstatement […]
Horrific pictures and videos of the bodies of innocent protestors killed by the security forces and militia of the regime of the Supreme Religious Leader, Khamene’i, have been published, that evidence the bloodshed perpetrated on 7th and 8th January 26 during the deathly shutdown of the Internet – which has been imposed in Iran since […]
The brutal attack of the quasi-fascist US government on Venezuela’s national sovereignty, and the kidnapping of the country’s Head of State, in a bloody battle, like other unpredictable actions of this kind by the head of the US government, has plunged the world into massive shock at how world security and international legal order continues […]
November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, is a historic achievement in women’s struggles around the world to achieve a life free from violence. Living a life without violence is a fundamental human right emphasized in international human rights treaties and declarations. Nevertheless, violence—especially against women—continues to be exercised in […]
Greetings on March 8th, International Women’s Day! The Democratic Organization of Iranian Women congratulates all Iranian women and girls on March 8, International Women’s Day, a day of renewal of commitment and solidarity with women’s struggles to build a world free from poverty, violence, discrimination, injustice, and environmental destruction. March 8th is celebrated every year […]
February 2025 marks the 82nd anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women, the oldest progressive and cohesive women’s organisation in Iran, which was established on 7th of February 1943 by a number of Iranian women activists and intellectuals. Within a short period of time, it not only succeeded in becoming the […]
Statement of the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women on May Day May 1st, the international workers’ day, is a historic day in which workers – men and women – rose to demand their rights from the capitalist system and to consolidate them. As we commemorate this day, in most countries of the world (except for […]
Open Message to the Women’s International Democratic Federation The popular uprising of Woman, Life, Freedom that started with the protests of women and youth in protest at the state killing of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, for the supposed breach of the full Islamic hejab, in September 2022, has been continuing in our country in different […]
