Ndashe, Sibongile, et al. “Women’s Rights and Feminist Movements in Iran – Sur – International Journal on Human Rights.” Sur, 13 Aug. 2019, sur.conectas.org/en/womens-rights-feminist-movements-iran/.

A chapter in the book Women’s Movement in the Global Era is summarized in the article “Women’s Rights and Feminist Movements in Iran” by Nayereh Tohidi discussing the rising of the Iranian women’s movement. Tohidi explores the achievements as well as the journey of the women’s movement in “…socioeconomic developments, state policies, political trends.” She goes into details of each era of movements along with its struggle. We can see starting from 1905 all the way to the present time women are still struggling in getting their rights. Surely, a few of those movements were more successful than others however, the general idea of silencing women is still present. Tohidi wants to deal with this issue specifically and I believe this article can be connected directly to my paper. She brings about critical points that are necessary to ensure Iranian women get their rights. She talks about the current era where women are still suppressed but under the president Rouhani that was elected due to the work of the Iranian women in order to achieve votes for him, they can bring huge changes. They can get the women their power back. A few of those powers include creating NGOs that support women rights and help them stand against domestic violence and state violence. Ensure change in the educational system that allow women to carry on with higher education, removal of discriminatory laws, promoting egalitarian values and allowing journalistic work to highlight all these issues along with many others. The women while helping the president also demanded that he appoint women in high power political positions or at least make sure that the people in that position at least support women rights. Tohidi concludes that society has a major impact on guaranteeing equality amongst women in Iran regardless of gender. Along with appreciating the fact that the women of Iran have never given up their fight but carried on courageously and have been resilient in achieving their rights even with all the repressive pressure from the society and the government along with personality frictions, ideological divergence, and differences in strategy and tactics. Although the government has been able to isolate these women from the outside world of social media, the Iranian women have become more and more aware of the support they have from the world. They recognized the current trends and the support for women rights, they learned about the transnationally engaged activities in making that possible. Especially, with regard to the mechanisms, tools, and machineries created through the U.N. gender projects and conventions such as CEDAW. The movements usually consist of the middle class in the urban areas and require a lot of time to convince people in other areas so join in. It takes time and patience to create a force that can cause an impact on the government. However, women activist is looked down upon by conservative Islam’s because it is believed that they are under western influences from globalization.