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 […]
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’ […]
In the throes of the 100th day of Iran’s protests, in a note from her prison cell, Narges Mohammadi, the civil and human rights activist who has been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for several years, has been made public, a shocking account of the sexual assault on protesting women, by the Islamic Republic’s […]
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