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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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Podcast for Equality Launched
(Change for Equality: In honor of the 12th of June (22nd of Khordaad), the day of Solidarity for Iranian Women, the first podcast of "Change for Equality" the official site of the One Million Signatures Campaign was produced and broadcast. This podcast includes segments about the day of solidarity in June 2005, where women’s rights activists gathered in front of Tehran University in a peaceful protest objecting to laws that discriminate against women. It also includes segments about a (...))
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(Change for Equality: Change for Equality, the official site of the One Million Signatures Campaign was blocked once again on June 20, 2008. This is the eleventh time that the site has been blocked by authorities since the inception of the Campaign on August 2006. On June 23, four other sites related to the Campaign have also been blocked, including sites operating from the city of Amol, Karaj, Zabol, and Hamedan.
The new address of the site Change for Equality is: (...)
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14 July 2008
Arrest of Zeinab Bayzeydi, Women’s Rights Activist in Mahabad Kurdistan
Change for Equality: According to reports provided to the site of Change for Equality, Zeinab Bayzeydi, women’s rights activist, member of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan and a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign in the city of Mahabad in Kurdistan Province, was arrested on Wednesday 9th of July, 2008. The arrest of Zeinab was confirmed through a telephone conversation with her family members. According to her family, on Saturday July 5, 2008 Zeinab was summoned by (...)
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14 July 2008
High Bail Amount Set for Release of Mahboubeh Karami
Change for Equality: On Saturday morning, July 12, 2008, Houshang Babai’e the Lawyer representing Mahboubeh Karami went to the 2nd branch of the security investigative court to follow up on the status of his client’s case. He was told that a bail amount of 100 Million Tomans (rougly $110,000) has been set for the release of Mahboubeh Karami. Karami’s family however has announced that they are not in a position to post such high bail for her release.
Yesterday, several members of the (...)
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14 July 2008
Nasrin Sotoodeh and Mansoureh Shojaee Summoned to Revolutionary Courts
Change for Equality: According to reports, Nasrin Sotoodeh and Mansoureh Shojaee have been summoned to appear in the Revolutionary Courts.
Nasrin Sotoodeh is a well known lawyer who has voluntarily represented many women’s rights activists, especially those involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign. Sotoodeh is also known for her legal activism on behalf of abused children and under 18 youth sentenced to be executed. According to the summons received on Saturday July 12, 2008, (...)
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14 July 2008 �
Funding and Movement Building in Iran
Homa Maddah, a founding member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and a young women’s rights activist has been interviewed by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) for their Friday File. The interview conducted by AWID appears below.
By Rochelle Jones
AWID: What is your involvement with women’s rights in Iran?
When I was 19, I joined the Women’s Cultural Centre in Tehran. It was an important women’s NGO, and a great chance for me to work with well known feminists (...)
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14 July 2008 �
Mass Arrest of Student Activists Coincide with the Anniversary of 1999 Student Protests
Change for Equality: According to news reports, recent mass arrest of student activists include some students who are also active in the One Million Signatures Campaign. Some of those arrested in the past few days include: Bahareh Hedayat, Mohammad Hashemi, Ashkan Arshian, Ali Gholizadeh, Ali Saberi; Mehdi Ghodsi and Reza Arab.
Though these arrests are unrelated to their activities in the Campaign, Bahareh Hedayat in Tehran, Ashkan Arshian, Ali Gholizadeh, and Mehdi Ghodsi in Mashad are (...)
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7 July 2008 �
Observatory Issues Urgent Appeal in Case of Hana Abdi
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has issued an urgent appeal in the case of Hana Abdi, who was recently sentenced to five years in prison to be served in border town, far from her city of Sanandaj. The urgent appeal is copied below:
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
New information
IRN 013 / 1107 / OBS 154.1
Arbitrary detention / (...)
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The most recent articles
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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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18 June 2008
The effect of the polygamy laws on the lives of women
Interview by: Mariam Zandi
Translated by: SZ
Monir is the resident of a town where the cold spells far exceed the warm spells and its shivers are more frequent than its fevers. She has gotten her life back together after going through a separation brought about by her husband. I talked to her about herself and her life.
Mariam Zandi: Greetings. Hope you’re doing well. Tell me about yourself.
My name is Monir. I am 45 years old. I have a high school diploma. I have two children. I still can’t believe that the (...)
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11 June 2008
By: Parisa Panahi, Campaign in Zanjan
Translated by: Sussan Tahmasebi
Usually I don’t provide reports, but I read all reports. Perhaps this is a bit bad, both for me and for those around me. This is true with respect to the site "Change for Equality," the official site of the Campaign. Every time I visit the site, I immediately go to the Face-to-Face section [where individual activists write about their experiences collecting signatures in support of the Campaign’s petition]. Even though I have never met the activists who (...)
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7 June 2008
By: Mahboubeh Karami
Translated by: SZ
My mother has been hospitalized for some time and I am very worried about her. I’ll never forget the day when Khadijeh Moghaddam called me and because she was aware of my mother’s illness; she inquired about her health. I told her that my mother was going to have surgery in the afternoon the next day. Khadijeh was saddened by the news, but as always she tried to boost my morale. She told me not to worry at all and try to keep a positive attitude. She said that she (...)
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30 May 2008
By: Azadeh Faramarziha
Translated by: Azadeh Pourzand
Various forms of arts have continuously served as great venues for expressing social and political dissatisfactions. Evidently, many of the genres in art, especially in the 20th Century, have come about in the midst of political movements and, at times, during revolutions. The role of political events is especially apparent in the history of performing arts. Theater, in particular, is the art of direct and live communications with members of the audience—an (...)
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