In an interview with Dutch human rights NGO, Arseh Sevom (Third Sphere), Mahnaz Afkhami discusses her work in pre-revolution Iran, women fighting for change in the2009 Iranian Green Movement, and her fight for gender equality in exile.
Tag: Women’s Organization of Iran
Women In Iran: From the Pahlavi era to the Islamic Republic
This article, penned by Mahnaz Afkhami, addresses the activities of Women’s Organization of Iran before the 1979 Revolution. Afkhami, who was the Secretary General of this non-profit organization, elaborates on its activities in early 1970s. The main focus of those activities – undertaken by women volunteers in 400 branches of this organization nationwide – was…
BBC Persian TV Hard Talk [Be Ebarate Digar]: An Interview with Mahnaz Afkhami
BBC Persian TV’s Enayat Fani interviews Mahnaz Afkhami who looks back on the advancing of women’s rights in Iran, elaborating on the Family Protection Law. “Iran’s Family Protection Law which was ratified some forty years ago is still far ahead of the laws of other Middle Eastern countries,” says Afkhami, adding that the first thing…
Executed But Not Forgotten: Iran’s Farrokhroo Parsay
NPR interviews Mahnaz Afkhami about Farrokhroo Parsa, the Minister of Education in Iran from 1968 to 1977. Ms. Parsa was charged with corruption after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and executed on charges of corruption. In the interview, Afkhami discusses the role that Ms. Parsay played as both her personal mentor and as a pioneer for…
A National Plan of Action, 1978
A National Plan of Action for the Improvement of Women’s Status in Iran, by the Women’s Organization of Iran in September, 1978.
Mahnaz Afkhami with Iranian Minister of Health at WOI
Mahnaz Afkhami with Iranian Minister of Health at WOI
Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda at the WOI Conference
Deputy Minister of Labor Kokab Moarefi, Minister of Interior Jamshid Amoozegar (became Prime Minister in 1977), Mahnaz Afkhami (center front), and Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda at the Women’s Organization of Iran conference.
Mahnaz with Karim Agha Khan, 1976
Mahnaz Afkhami dining with Prince Karim Agha Khan in Pakistan (1976)