She was a member of the campaign to collect One Million Signatures to amend Iran's laws in favoring women's rights and died in a car accident in early 2011.

[9] One of her companions, Kaveh Kermanshahi, who won the Hellman/Hammett award from Human Rights Watch, presented it to Bahareh in an interview with Radio Zamaneh.

[11] Her death provoked wide reactions among the human and women's rights activists, several articles about her life and activities were published in various media.

will be “Missed, but not Forgotten.” Below is a touching piece by Change for Equality detailing the exemplary life of Ms. Alavi ..."[14] Fred Petrossian from Spain In response to Bahareh's death, wrote she was the author of the Sun Girls blog one of iranian activists.

Rezvan Moghaddam graduated from the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin wrote: Many bloggers courageously broke redline in their writing especially when expressing their own experiences.

[16]She was one of the women rights activists who wrote a letter to the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council warning about Iran's membership in the organization in 2010.