Title: Narjes Shiraghaei
Narjes Shiraghaei K., Bs Midwifery, Freelance women health
and rights writer, Iran contact of Midwifery today. Narjes is a midwife, an
activist, trainer and educator of women’s health and rights in Iran and former
contact for ICM (International Confederation of Midwives). She has been
successfully establishing grassroots movements on sexual health, childbirth
rights and women’s health for the last decade. Her free of charge courses on
sexual health for teenage girls at schools in Mazandaran has had some backlashes
at the beginning but over time more schools realised the necessity of it. Right
now she is focusing on her idea of “Global network of midwives (GNM); for equal
access to health and rights for women”. During the COVID-19 pandemic she
created a social media health task force to make sure women in remote places
and around cities continue to have access to health professionals.