Baharan Raoufi

Baharan Raoufi is a representative of Feminist Initiative! (F!), a feminist political party in Sweden formed in 2005. The party considers feminist politics as the crucial approach to a variety of political and social issues, and emphasizes the importance of Building intersectional alliances with minorities, refugees, and LGBTQI+ community. The party defends an open border policy in the EU, demands demilitarization, and a control mechanism throughout the EU to protect citizens from violence and (sexual) exploitation. F! demands gender equality in all aspects of life, both in the domain of political representation as well as labor and social life. F! holds seats in many municipalities of Sweden as well as in the European parliament. Raoufi, who fled Iran in 1997 due to the political activism of her parents under the regime of the Shah, studied political science with a focus on gender studies before becoming a representative of the F! educational committee in the municipality of Lund and assistant to the F! in the European parliament.