Career
She was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2007 for her struggle for equal rights for men and women in Iran. In the 1990s Ardalan, along with e.g. Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, established the Women"s Cultural Centre (Markaz-e Farhangi-ye Zanan), which since then has been a center for forming opinions, analyzing and documenting the women"s issues in Iran.
Since 2005 the organization has published Iran"s first online magazine on women"s rights, Zanestan, with Ardalan as its editors
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, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and violence against women. One Million Signatures Campaign
As a part of the campaign she has taken part in protests that have been violently silenced.
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. Four more women"s rights activists later received the same sentence.
Citizenship
In 2012 the Swedish Migration Board decided that Ardalan would be granted permanent residency in Sweden, where she had moved 3 years earlier.
