Women's fraction

Women's fraction
ChamberIslamic Consultative Assembly
Foundation2000; 24 years ago (2000)
PresidentFatemeh Ghasempour
Vice presidentsFatemeh Rahmani
SpokespersonSarah Fallahi
Representation
16 / 290 (6%)

The Women's fraction (Persian: فراکسیون زنان) is a cross-factional all-female parliamentary group in the Iranian Parliament which advocates Women's rights in Iran.[1]

  1. ^ Elaheh Koolaee (2016), "9: Women in the Parliament", in Tara Povey (ed.), Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran, Routledge, p. 139, ISBN 9781134779895, Female MPs have in different periods relied on the 1979 constitution in their fight for women's rights.