We the undersigned, representing international women’s groups and activists, human rights organizations and activists, university and academic centers, and social justice initiatives, would like to express our support for Iranian women in their effort to reform laws and achieve equal status within the Iranian legal system.
(Change for Equality: War does not happen in the course of a day. There is no need for war to land in our cities with a bomb. The shadow of war is also frightening. The possibility of war too changes the lives of women. Every day that we spend at war or in conditions of war, is filled with the fear of the death of the our achievements, which have come about through years of struggle. War for us, means destructive violence committed against women and children. It means more severe (...))
Change for Equality: Parastoo Dokouhaki a women’s rights activist, journalist and researcher covering social issues and Marzieh Rasouli a journalist reporting on music and book publications were arrested on January 15 and 17 respectively.
According to reports, security agents stormed the home of Dokouhaki on Sunday January 15, 2012 and after searching the premises and confiscating her personal belongings such as her computer and her writings, they proceeded to arrest her. Court officials (...)
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Change for Equality: According to reports, Saeed Madani, journalist, political activist, and well-respected sociologist was arrested on January 7, 2012 on the street. After his arrest security agents escorted him and his wife home and proceeded to search the property and confiscate his personal belongings. According to reports, his office at the University of Social Services and Social Rehabilitation was also searched by security agents. The reason for his arrest are unclear and his (...)
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Change for Equality: While discussions about and adoption of policies on gender segregation in the public sphere date back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, efforts to actually implement physical segregation of men and women have not been successful beyond schools. Segregation at Universities has been proposed and has come up more systematically as a subject of interest in the past few years, but with limited resources it is difficult to implement this system. Instead the (...)
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Change for Equality: As part of their 16 days of activism against gender violence Campaign the Nobel Women’s Initiative highlighted the activism of 16 women. Included in the list were two Iranian women’s rights activists, Bahareh Hedayat and Nasrin Sotoudeh. Below you can read the Nobel Women’s Initiative Day 12 Spotlight on Bahareh Hedayat.
[ Day 12: Spotlighting Bahareh Hedayat, Iran
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“We are worn out but [are] neither bent nor broken. We continue (...)
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Change for Equality: As part of their 16 days of activism against gender violence Campaign the Nobel Women’s Initiative highlighted the activism of 16 women. Included in the list were two Iranian women’s rights activists, Bahareh Hedayat and Nasrin Sotoudeh. Below you can read the Nobel Women’s Initiative Day 14 Spotlight on Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Day 14: Spotlighting Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iran
“My daughter, I hope you never think that I was not thinking of you or that it was my actions that deserved (...)
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Change for Equality: Alieh Eghdam Doust, women’s rights activist was released from prison today on January 8, 2011 after serving a three year prison term. Upon her release from prison, Alieh was greeted by women’s rights and human rights activists who waited for her outside Evin prison. She was then taken to the home of one of the Campaign activists, where a party was held in her honor and to celebrate her release. Women’s rights activists, peace activists, human rights and student (...)read more
31 December 2011
Timeline of Events Following Bahareh Hedayat’s Arrest
Change for Equality:Two years have passed since the arrest of Bahareh Hedayat, women’s rights and student’s rights activist and Campaign member. Persian2English, a human rights site has developed the following report chronicling Bahareh’s arrest and developments following her arrest.
Persian2English – Three full days had passed from the 2009 mass Ashura protests (December 27) when student activist Bahareh Hedayat, who was 28 years old at the time, was arrested and transferred to the notorious (...)read more
Change for Equality: During the last days of August and the first weeks of September, the Foratt Theatre in Malmo, Sweden, was host to women from Iraq, Iran, and Egypt who presented the play Nine Parts of Desire. The play, written by US-Iraqi playwright Heather Raffo, concerns the destinies of nine Iraqi women living in the shadow of war.
The women - a street vendor, a painter, a doctor, an exiled political activist, a witness to a death, one mourning the dead - through a series of (...)read more
Women’s Rights Activists Tell of Their Presence in the Streets in Protest against Violence against Women
Change for Equality: On the 5th September, a number of women’s movement activists took to the streets of Tehran as part of a symbolic movement to raise awareness about the phenomenon of violence against women. These women, whose faces bore the marks of violence, handed out purple ribbons attached to cards bearing descriptions and accounts of violence to people. This event took place after a number of women’s rights activists opposed to violence had earlier issued a statement analyzing the (...)read more
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