Statement of the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women On the eve of October 10, the World Day Against the Death Penalty, let us raise our voices ever more loudly against the use of inhumane death sentences and against the silent deaths of prisoners! Over the past few days, dozens of prisoners have been hanged by […]
Thirty-seven years have passed since the blood-soaked summer of 1988 and the horrific massacre of dissidents and freedom fighters serving prison sentences in Iran’s political prisons. Immediately after the end of the ruinous Iran-Iraq war and Ayatollah Khomeini’s (the supreme religious leader’s) declaration that the end of the war was like drinking the “poisoned chalice”, […]
‘The Federation of Women of Greece (OGE) denounces the massacre state of Israel, which by its planned and targeted air and missile attack on Iran opened the gate to war and threatens disaster to the peoples of the Middle East. We strongly condemn the attack of the murderous state of Israel under the pretext of […]
According Iranian official media, just one day before the Islamic regime’s drone and missile attack on Israel[1] – which threatened to spread war and bloodshed in our region and homeland – Tehran and major cities in Iran were scenes of street raids and violent confrontation with brave women, in a pre-planned operation ordered by the […]
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 […]
DOIW has called on progressive women and sister organisations to act to stop more executions of protesters, in Iran. The following is addressed to the WIDF organisations worldwide. To: Sister Organisations of the Women’s International Democratic Federation Dear friends, comrades, and fellow combatants, As you know, four months have passed since the ‘woman, life, freedom’ […]
The Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women presented its contribution to the International Seminar on Women and the World of Work organised by the Democratic Movement of Women in Portugal (MDM) and supported by WIDF. Excerpts of the presentation that was on the subject of Precarious Employment and Women in Iran, are shown below: ‘We wish […]
The Democratic Movement of Women in Portugal (MDM) organised an international seminar on Women and the Labour World in Portugal and in Europe, organised in collaboration with the Women International Democratic Federation – WIDF, and with the support of Loures Municipality, Lisbon. Many women’s organisations took part and spoke about the challenges that women face […]
The Movement of Democratic Women in Israel, sent the following message to the International seminar on Women and the World of Work, held near Lisbon in Portugal, on 28th May 2021. Excerpts of the message read as follows: ‘We are sorry for our delayed response to register and participate in seminar program, because of our […]
The following is an appeal from the Steering Committee of Women’s International Democratic Federation regarding the conditions that have followed the COVID 19 pandemic. The Women´s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) saluting all the women and men who are in the fight to get out of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are in solidarity with all the peoples and […]
