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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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(Somayeh could you tell us a little about yourself and how you became active in the women’s movement:
I am 23 years old. I earned my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from Alameh Tabatabaie University. Because of my sensitivities to women’s issues and my ideas on the status of women, before entering university, I was often referred to as a feminist. I didn’t really know what the term meant. I had an idea about feminism and thought that feminists believed that women are superior to (...)
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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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14 November 2008
11th International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development
Change for Equality: The 11th Annual Forum on Women’s Rights and Development, November 14-17, 2008, has begun in Cape Town, SA. According the site of the Association of Women in Development (AWID), organizers of the event, the Forum runs "from November 14-17, 2008, at the Cape Town International Convention Center, up to 1,500 women’s rights leaders and activists from around the world will converge on Cape Town, South Africa at the 11th AWID International Forum to discuss the power of (...)
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14 November 2008
Detention and travel ban of Iranian women’s rights activist Sussan Tahmasebi
AWID:
Statement from AWID
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is gravely concerned by credible reports that women’s rights activist Sussan Tahmasebi, a member of the Million Signatures Campaign, has been barred from travel, detained and interrogated for over 5 hours by officials from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
AWID is further seriously concerned that while she was detained, she did not have access to her lawyer and that the lawyer was not allowed (...)
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7 November 2008
Leading Women and Human Rights Organizations Issue Statement in Support of Women’s Rights Defenders in Iran
Change for Equality: Leading women and human rights organizations have issued a statement objecting to the recent increase in pressures on women’s rights activists involved in the One Million Signature Campaign. The letter issued by: Human Rights First; International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific; Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights; International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH); Equality Now; Center for Global Women’s Leadership; Association for Women’s Rights in Development; (...)
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5 November 2008 �
Detentions, Travel Bans, and Intimidation Target Activists
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: (27 October 2008) The Iranian government has substantially increased its persecution and prosecution of women’s rights activists in recent days. These actions come on the heels of a report by the UN Secretary General calling on Iran to end its repressive measures against women’s rights activists.
In a 20 October 2008 report, the Secretary General noted “an increasing crackdown in the past year on the women’s rights movement” and that “women’s (...)
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1 November 2008 �
Iran: Intensification of repression of women’s rights activists
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI Index: MDE 13/159/2008
31 October 2008
Iran: Intensification of repression of women’s rights activists
In a letter addressed to the Head of the Judiciary in Iran, Amnesty International deplored the latest arrest of a woman’s rights activist and the continuing harassment of others who were prevented from leaving the country. The organization called on the Iranian authorities to lift the travel bans and to end the harassment of women’s rights (...)
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30 October 2008 �
Government continues to harass cyber-feminists in attempt to silence them
Reporters Without Borders Iran29 October 2008:
Reporters Without Borders urges the Iranian authorities to stop its harassment of cyber-feminists after two more were summoned to a Tehran court for questioning about articles posted on women’s rights websites, and online journalist Sussan Tahmasebi was banned from leaving the country without being given any reason.
“The way the government hounds these women shows how much it fears their criticism,” Reporters Without Borders said. “These (...)
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The most recent articles
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13 November 2008
The Game
By: Elnaz Ansari
Translated by: Sudi
I read Mr. Momeni’s recent interview [with IRNA*], and at first I feel anger because the first and most moving interview that he gave was to Campaign for Equality, and the reporter that is now accused of indulging in fanciful speculation is me. But I surpass my feelings of anger quickly and instead I begin to ponder and consider how the system of repression and security works, and what role we play in this game.
Due to Esha’s arrest, hours of on-camera interview with (...)
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6 November 2008
By: Shirin Ardalan
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
I have known her for years. I go to visit her, in the hopes that she will sign the petition of the Campaign. Farideh is a religious woman, who observes the full hejab. She is 43 and single. Half jokingly she says: "the ones I wanted didn’t want to marry me and those who wanted to marry me, I didn’t like." She lives with her elderly father and her sister in an apartment. Her mother died of a heart attack, following the death of her only son during the (...)
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21 October 2008
The California Chapter of the One Million Signatures Campaign
By: Esha Momeni
Translated by: Sudi Farokhnia
*Note: This article was written by Esha Momeni in the Summer of 2007. Esha Momeni was arrested on October 15, 2008, while on travel to Iran visiting with family. During this trip Esha worked to complete her Masters thesis project on women activists involved in the Campaign. To this end, she conducted a number of video interviews. She was arrested and taken to Evin prison in relation to her masters thesis, where she remains still. Read the news about her (...)
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18 October 2008
By: Khadijeh Moghaddam
Translated by: Salman Zia-Ebrahimi
Starting off With Hard Labor
I am packing my suitcase; I have a one month trip ahead of me. I want to have a change of scene and breathe freely for a little while in a different climate. My son is accompanying me on this trip. I can’t make up my mind whether I should take a suitcase or just take a duffel bag; I’m undecided. What if they don’t let me leave? Didn’t they stop many of our comrades from leaving? It would not surprise me if they tried to stop (...)
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7 October 2008
By: Nahid Jafari
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
It was 10:00 Am and I had a meeting scheduled for 11:00. I had been invited to a park to speak about the Campaign at a meeting of women. I hoped to get signatures from those who agreed with the statement of the petition and the aims of the Campaign. The group I was supposed to meet was a group of women my own age who gathered in a park in Sa’adat Abad on a weekly basis, to talk with one another and perhaps at the end eat a sandwich and then go home. I (...)
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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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