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(Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in the Iranian law.)
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(Change for Equality: Elnaz please tell us a little about yourself.
I am 26 years old. I am a journalist and write mostly on social issues. I began my journalistic activities in the year 2000 in a local publication in Zanjan, and from the start I focused on social issues, but especially issues related to women and children. In the same year I was arrested for participating in a student protest and spent 3 months in prison. After that, my activities have been focused primarily on women’s (...)
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(Interview by: Sussan Tahmasebi
Azadeh can you tell us a little about yourself?
I am 29 years old. I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater and work with Sahneh (Scene) Magazine, which focuses on developments in theater.
How did you come to join the One Million Signatures Campaign?
Last Fall I heard about the Campaign and decided to join the effort. I started my activities in the Arts Committee of the Campaign in Tehran. As part of our activities in this Committee last Winter, we (...)
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18 September 2008
Civil and Political Activists Condemn Conservative Media Accusations Against Shirin Ebadi
Advar News: One thousand three hundred and forty (1340) Iranian civil and political activists issued a statement condemning the media accusations launched against Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The translation of the statement follows:
In the past few months as tensions and crises reached their peak in the international arena, and as we faced deep social problems and impasses as well as economic pressures nationally, which are a (...)
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16 September 2008
Honor Killing in Kermanshah Province
Kurdistan Human Rights Watch News Agency: According to reports submitted on Monday September 1, 2008, from women’s rights defenders in West Islamabad in Kermanshah Province, a 29 year old woman with the initials N.R has been killed by her own brother. This young woman had been separated from her husband and was living in her parents home with her 10 year old son.
N.R was murdered by her brother, 26, who claimed that his sister’s separation had dishonored the family. At first, city (...)
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14 September 2008
Latest Anthem of the Campaign
Change for Equality: In celebration of the second anniversary of the Campaign, we bring you our latest anthem.
Special thanks goes to:
Maziar Samiee (words)
Samin Abedi (composition)
Shirin Ardalan and Azadeh Faramarziha (singers)
Listen to the anthem here.
A translation of the words appear below:
I sprout life
From the wounds on my skin
Simply because I survive
As I am a woman, a woman, a woman
If our voices are united
And we walk as one
And our hands are joined
We shall escape (...)
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26 September 2008 �
Iran Women Say No to Polygamy
Women’s News Network:
By: Elahe Amani
In response to the efforts of this coalition, the Iranian parliament (known in Iran as the Majlis) has removed the two most contested articles of this bill, Articles 23 and 25, postponing the bill’s floor discussion indefinitely. In addition, Iran’s parliament will send the bill back to the Parliamentary Judicial Committee for further revisions.
This rare and temporary victory has energized young women activists in Iran. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace (...)
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22 September 2008 �
Human Rights International Prize 2008 to NASRIN SOTOUDEH, Iran
Human Rights International:: We are pleased to communicate that the "Human Rights International Committee“ has decided to award the "Human Rights International Prize 2008“ to NASRIN SOTOUDEH, Iran.
The nomination to the first Human Rights International Prize was submitted by Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2003 Mrs. Shirin Ebadi, because of Nasrin Sotoudehs work defending the human rights.
The Prize Ceremony will be held on December 2008 in Meran-Merano, Italy, to honour the Human Rights (...)
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21 September 2008 �
Iran’s Women’s Rights Activists Are Being Smeared
Women’s rights activists recently succeeded in stalling a bill to ease polygamy, temporary marriage and male-bias in divorce. But Nayereh Tohidi says a nasty smear campaign and continuous arrest show the adversity they are up against.
WeNews:
In Iran, the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently proposed a bill and, in Orwellian fashion, named it the "Family Protection Law."
If passed it would have threatened the stability, equilibrium, and mental health of families by (...)
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The most recent articles
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26 September 2008
In Court
By: Shirin Momeni
Translated by: Pouran
One year after my divorce, I was offered the opportunity to work abroad. This was the best chance for me to experience life outside the country and with the improved income, I could make up for the past. More importantly this would help provide a brighter future for my daughter. Therefore, to satisfy the judges who deal with family affairs, I left for Tehran, but upon arrival at the administrative office, all my negative memories re-surfaced. The divorce and the proof (...)
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22 September 2008
By: Tara Najdahmadi
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
I have gotten accustomed to driving fast late at night. With my mouth half open, I speed past the endless lines of yellow lights, on the empty highways. Broken hearts, smog, silence, and red and green lights, are of no significance. Returning home at night; returning from goodbye parties and from airports…from hugs, promises, jokes, useless words, forced smiles, last glances, the utterance of inaudible final sentences, and longing for other realities—a (...)
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21 September 2008
By: Parastoo Alahyaari
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
These days she says her prayers out loud. Maybe she is trying to convey to me that she is worried that I may have lost faith. Or maybe she only intends to remind me, remind me, remind…
She tells her daughter that: "you must overcome your fears. If you sit behind the wheel again, a third time, a fourth time, and even if you have an accident, then it will all become normal for you. You will get used to it. Then if you need to take your child to the doctor, (...)
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19 September 2008
By: Taraneh Amir Teymourian
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
Collecting signatures is a sweet experience, so much so that you never want to let go of the signatures you have collected. Every signature has a story and memory attached to it. This is part of my story about collection of signatures—memories from the day Elnaz, Setareh and I went to collect signatures in the common areas of a large complex.
In general people were very receptive toward ours.
When we asked a man and woman who were exercising around the (...)
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16 September 2008
By: Nazli Farokhi
Translation by: Mehdi
I got in the back seat of the Taxi. There was a young man who got on before me. He was talking loudly on the phone….”Yes dear Hamid. These medications have affected my hearing and eyes. Sounds are louder and everything is brighter. Note all the changes I tell you. Take care and good bye.”
After a while a girl got into the Taxi and sat on my other side and we drove off.
I immediately took out two notepads from my bag and gave it to both of the passengers. The (...)
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14 September 2008
Oral History
By: Nahid Mirhaj
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
She was twelve, with big sunken and lusterless eyes. Her scrawny face had a yellow hue, and her hands were swollen from too much work. Her body was tiny, and reminded me of trees in Autumn, which had barely survived the summer’s drought.
She would work with her mother in the homes of others, and every evening she would return crooked and limping. The entire length of the street on her way home, she would ring the door bells of her friends’ homes, (...)
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7 September 2008
Change for Equality: The following is a documentation of the Campaign’s activities in year two captured through photographs. The Campaign has been successful in engaging activists around the country, despite having extremely limited resources and despite intense security pressures intended to limit the spread of the Campaign. These photographs are a testament to the courage and commitment of the activists involved in the Campaign and their determination in working to reform laws that (...)read more
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