Parvin Ardalan

In the 1990s Ardalan, along with e.g. Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, established the Women's Cultural Centre (Markaz-e Farhangi-ye Zanan), which since then has been a center for forming opinions, analyzing and documenting the women's issues in Iran.{{cite news |last=Ullberg|first= Sara |url=http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2374&a=748371 |title=Palmepristagare stoppades på flyget |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |date=8 March 2008|accessdate=4 March 2008|language=Swedish }}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Since 2005 the organization has published Iran's first online magazine on women's rights, Zanestan, with Ardalan as its editor. In its constant struggle against censorship – the magazine comes back with a new name all the time – the newspaper has dealt with marriage, prostitution, education, AIDS, and violence against women. With Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Ardalan co-authored a book about the country's first female lawyer, Mehrangiz Manouchehrian, titled "Senator: the Work of Senator Mehrangiz Manouchehrian in the Struggle for Legal Rights for Women". The book received the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award in 2004.

Ardalan is one of the founding members of the One Million Signatures Campaign,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070908044933/http://www.wechange.info/english/ Change for Equality, Official site of One million signatures campaign]}} attempting to collect a million signatures for women's equal rights. As a part of the campaign she has taken part in protests that have been violently silenced. In 2007 she, together with Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, was sentenced to three years in prison for "threatening the national security" with their struggle for women's rights. Four more women's rights activists later received the same sentence.

In 2012 the Swedish Migration Board decided that Ardalan would be granted permanent residency in Sweden, where she had moved 3 years earlier.{{cite web|url=http://svt.se/2.27170/1.2755811/parvin_ardalan_far_stanna_i_sverige |title=Parvin Ardalan får stanna i Sverige - kultur & nöje | SVT.se |accessdate=27 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330030801/http://svt.se/2.27170/1.2755811/parvin_ardalan_far_stanna_i_sverige |archivedate=30 March 2012 }}

• Olof Palme Prize (2007){{cite web|url=http://www.huliq.com/50556/palme-prize-iranian-women%E2%80%99s-rights-activist|title=Palme Prize to Iranian Women's Rights Activist|accessdate=4 May 2008|date=14 February 2008|work=Huliq.com}}

Parvin Ardalan is one of the members of the Feminists for Jina network, which was established following the nationwide Woman Life Freedom uprising initiated by a group of Iranian feminist activists. {{cite web|url=https://iranwire.com/en/women/114561-women-activists-hail-ongoing-feminist-revolution-in-iran| title=Women Activists Hail Ongoing “Feminist Revolution” In Iran}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-64885287| title=The criticism of "top-down alternative-making" at the press conference on March 8 by the activists of "Feminists for Jina" network.}}

• Iranian women's movement
• List of women's rights activists

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSMYY8NUfDg Olof Palme Prize speech video on youtube.com]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110506142815/http://www.independentworldreport.com/2010/02/against-gender-apartheid/ Against gender apartheid, interview of Parvin Ardalan by Haideh Daragahi]

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