Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran, 2005

"We want to live, we do not want to face persecution for expressing our political opinion; as women we don't want to walk on the street with the constant horror that we could be intimidated for showing an inch of hair."—Narges Kalhor, a young Iranian filmmaker, October 2009. On June 12, 2005, hundreds of women gathered outside Tehran University in Tehran, Iran. These women were protesting an issue that Iranian women have battled for more than one hundred years: gender inequality. Living in a …