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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 my activities in this Committee last Winter I (...)
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26 August 2008
Mahboubeh Karami Released on Bail َ
Change for Equality: Mahboubeh Karami, a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was released on bail in the amount of 100 million Tomans (roughly $110,000) yesterday, August 25, 2007, after having spent nearly 70 days in detention.
Karami spoke with the site of Change for Equality a day after her release. In this interview, Mahboubeh Karami rated the condition of the prison where she and other women had been detained as very poor. She, however, emphasized that after her (...)
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23 August 2008
The First Workshop of the Campaign on the Family Protection Bill Convened
Change for Equality: The first workshop of the One Million Signatures Campaign on the Family Protection Bill, intended to examine and analyze the different components of this draft piece of legislation was held in Tehran on August 1, 2008. A number of activists involved in the Campaign in Tehran, Semnan and Isfahan were present at this workshop. The workshop was lead by Zohreh Arzani, lawyer, and member of Education Committee of the One Million Signature Campaign in Tehran. Ms. Arzani (...)
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12 August 2008
Zeinab Bayzeydi Sentenced to Serve Four Years in Exile
Change for Equality: According to reports from the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, Zeynab Bayzeydi, a women’s rights activist in Mahabad Kurdistan, has been sentenced to serve four years in Exile in the city of Zanjan, in West Azarbaijan Province. According to this report, Ms. Bayzeydi has denied all the charges against her, except for her cooperation with the One Million Signatures Campaign. Ms. Bayzeydi has submitted a letter objecting to the charges against her and the sentence (...)
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27 August 2008 �
Iran: End pressure on women’s rights defenders campaigning
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: MDE 13/127/2008 26 August 2008
Iran: End pressure on women’s rights defenders campaigning for an end to discrimination
Two years after the launch of the Campaign for Equality on 27 August 2006, Amnesty International is renewing its demand that the Iranian authorities cease harassing and imprisoning women’s rights defenders and allow them to freely continue their campaigning for the repeal of laws and policies which discriminate against women (...)
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26 August 2008 �
A Petition We Cannot Sign
Open Democracy: Today’s globally aware digital generation is used to constant requests to sign online petitions on various issues of international concern. Sceptics aren’t sure how much good those few mouse clicks do – do those signing even know exactly what they’re signing for? Would other types of action, like demonstrations, be more effective in raising awareness for a particular cause? We’re all guilty of skipping the small print and preferring the comfort of our own laptops now and again. (...)
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22 August 2008 �
Polygamy Law for Rich Men
Die Welt: Elahe Kolahi was a member of the sixth “Parliament” of the Islamic Republic of Iran. She has criticised a new bill that had been drafted “in the name of the family, yet against the family”.
In an article that has appeared in Iranian newspapers like Etemaad and Norous and in Rooz, an online publication penned in exile, she writes about a bill that has sparked a dispute over the “foundations and stability of the family”.
Kolahi, who believes in Khomeini’s constitution for Iran, writes (...)
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28 August 2008
Anniversary Special
Change for Equality: On the occasion of the second anniversary of the One Million Signatures Campaign, we bring you a report of the Campaign’s activities in Year 1, captured through photographs. These pictures only capture a portion of the activities of activists in the Campaign, nevertheless, the report provides an overall perspective on the many achievements of this effort in a short period of time. The experience and dedication of Campaigners over the past two years has worked to (...)read more
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24 August 2008
Dolores Huerta’s Support of the Campaign
By: Azadeh Faramaziha
Translated by: SZ
Change for Equality: Demands are important. Having demands or having the ability to pose demands is what brings people together or even makes them akin. When you pose your demands, you can think of yourself as part of thousands and thousands who are striving for their demands in different ways no matter how difficult it may be. You can think of yourself as one of the comrades of Dolores Huerta who makes demands and knows no limits or boundaries for her demands.
Dolores (...)
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18 August 2008
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
Change for Equality: Today the future of the Iranian family has entered a sensitive and decisive phase. The 8th parliament is considering the passage of a Bill into law titled: "the Family Protection Bill." The Bill has become infamous among women’s rights activists who refer to as the "Anti Family Bill." The Bill was introduced in August of 2007 by the Administration of Mr. Ahmadinejad to the Parliament. On July 9, 2008, the Bill was approved by the (...)
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6 August 2008
Interview with Amir Yaghoub-Ali
By: Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh
Translated by: Parastou
Change for Equality: Amir Yaghoub Ali is a member of the Men’s Committee of the One Million Signatures Campaign who has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Amir was arrested on July 11, 2007 while collecting signatures in Andisheh Park, in Tehran, and spent 29 days in Evin Prison. Amir, who is twenty-one years old, believes that through their presence and activity on behalf of gender equality, men can show that unequal laws not only affect women, but also harm (...)
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7 July 2008
From the Campaign’s Site in Ilam
By: A Campaign Activist in Ilam Province
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
After the initial steps of collecting signatures in support of the Campaign’s petition from friends my own age, I started discussing our demands with family members. I asked my grandmother who lives in a village first. I read the statement of the petition of the Campaign for her. She began to think about it and then responded by saying: "I don’t have any of the demands that you mention." I asked her why and she (...)
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28 June 2008
In the Local/ Intercity Bus
By : Hoda Aminian
Translated by: Pouran Saeedi
Change for Equality It was 10 o’clock in the morning when I left home. I took a deep breath to feel better, but as soon as my lungs filled with the polluted air of Tehran, I felt sick. It was getting warmer when I started going toward the farmers’ market in a nearby square. The daily scene in this square is one of women busy hauling around full baskets and shopping carts. Women come from near and far to buy their daily foodstuffs and groceries just a little bit (...)
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19 June 2008
Mohammad Sharif, Hana’s Lawyer: The Sentence Issued is Worrisome and Inappropriate
Change for Equality: Hana Abdi, women’s rights activist, is a 21 year old university student at Payame Nour University in the city of Bijar. She is a member of Azar Mehr Women’s NGO in Kurdistan, and the One Million Signatures Campaign. Hana Abdi has been in detention since November 6, 2007, when she was arrested by security officers in the City of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, Iran. The unexpected and (...)
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