Parvin Ardalan

[1] She was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2007 for her struggles for equal rights for men and women in Iran.

[3] 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.

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.

In 2012 the Swedish Migration Board decided that Ardalan would be granted permanent residency in Sweden, where she had moved 3 years earlier.