In Iran

WLP works with Iranian scholars, journalists, lawyers, and professors, and others who are organizing, agitating, and advocating for women’s rights. 

We have collaborated with our Iranian partners on translating and testing our education materials in Persian, facilitating leadership and human rights workshops, and  participation in WLP’s online courses. WLP provides logistical support, opportunities for meeting with other activists, funding, and materials and training to individual Iranians and to Iranian feminist networks.

WLP also acts as a conduit for information between Iranian activists and international women’s rights organizations such as the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), One World, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, and the World Movement for Democracy, and with women’s organizations in the global south. Iranian feminists’ collaboration with WLP  has brought greater international attention to their work, and has allowed them to network with hundreds of women’s rights and democracy activists on their mobilization efforts. 

Programs and Accomplishments

• Our Iranian partners have conducted dozens of WLP training workshops in Iran, and have taken part in a number of Training of Trainers workshops held in locations outside of the country .
• Through the sponsorship of WLP, our Iranian partners have participated in many international symposia—including the WLP Transnational Partner Convening, 2013 Women Deliver Conference, World Movement for Democracy (WMD), and the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). 
• Our Iranian partners have conducted online trainings on how to use social media for advocacy and on digital security for Iranian activists. 
• Our Iranian partners have been in the vanguard of the One Million Signatures Campaign, an Iran-based public education and advocacy campaign to collect signatures in support of repealing Iran’s laws that discriminate against women. This campaign has garnered international awards for its powerful impact on Iranian society and attention for the harsh backlash against its organizers by the government.
• Iranian activist Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani documented the campaign in Iranian Women's One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality: The Inside Story, a book translated, published, and widely disseminated by WLP in Persian, Arabic, Russian, and English as part of WLP’s Translation Series.
• Our Iranian partners have translated and adapted nearly all of our training manuals into Persian. The have used our documentaries with Persian subtitles in their leadership workshops. And they have translated and disseminated the Persian language edition of the Guide to Equality in the Family in the Maghreb, published by WLP.