Women and Gender in the Middle East

The Women's Organization of Iran (WOI) was founded in 1966 by a 5000-member assembly of Iranian women from diverse backgrounds and regions gathered through consultation, brainstorming, and negotiation initiated by a fifty member advisory group tasked by the High Council of Iranian Women's Associations and its president, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi.

A report produced by Minority Rights Group International, an NGO working to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities.

Information put together by United Against Nuclear Iran detailing different ways violence against women is enabled.

The collection consists of the personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s. Of these, 118 narratives have been digitized and are available to researchers through this database.