Omid: An Iranian Memorial

Dr. Ladan Boroumand

2009 OFF in Oslo

Ladan Boroumand is an Iranian historian and the co-founder and research director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran. Boroumand discusses the human rights violations of the Iranian regime and explains the role that her unique and innovative Omid database plays in documenting such abuses.

About the Speaker

Dr. Ladan

Boroumand

Honorary Professor at The University of Parma & Co-founder of Abdorrahman Boroumand Center For Human Rights in Iran

Dr. Ladan Boroumand is an Iranian historian and human rights advocate. She co-founded the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, which promotes human rights and hosts the Omid Memorial—an online archive documenting victims of the Islamic Republic. She has written on the French and Islamic Revolutions and is currently researching secularization trends in Iranian society.