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| - One Million Signatures Campaign - eCourse - Leadership Workshops - Curriculum development in Persian |
Activities in Iran
Curriculum Development:
WLP has worked in partnership with Iranian activists and scholars to develop a Persian edition of the Leading to Choices training manual and of Leading to Choices: A Multimedia Curriculum for Leadership Learning, which consists of three videos and interactive guides on participatory facilitation, effective communication, and strategic advocacy.
Learning Institutes and Training of Trainers:
In 2005, WLP convened a National Learning Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers with a group of Iranian activists, NGO leaders, and academics to enable participants to develop skills in participatory leadership and to strengthen women's networks in Iran. Participants plan to hold workshops on violence against women and other important challenges facing women in Iran in follow-up from the training.
eCourses for Women's Leadership:
In 2004-5, WLP developed a prototype Persian interactive online distance learning course (eCourse) to develop women's participatory leadership skills. One short test eCourse and one full ten-week eCourse were held with 18 women participants from Afghanistan and Iran. eCourses are designed to provide training opportunities for women whose ability to attend workshops in person may be constrained by security considerations or socio-cultural factors.
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Country OverviewGovernment type: Theocratic republic Education and HealthAdult literacy rate Political ParticipationYear women received right to |
Stories and Reports
Islamic Republic of Iran: Penal Code Excerpts Relating to Women
Source: Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl, eds. In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
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Iran | National Law )
A Special Report: Movement Building in Iran
On July 26, 2006, Ashraf Kalhori, a 37 year old mother of four, learned that her sentence of death by stoning was about to be carried out. Until that point, the punishment of stoning, which had officially been under a moratorium since 2002, had remained a taboo topic in Iranian public discourse. Ms. Kalhori’s case, however, mobilized a group of lawyers and transnational women’s activists who were concerned that this unmentionable punishment was in fact becoming more commonplace. From this seed, the “Stop Stoning Forever” campaign, and ultimately the work of Women’s Field (Meydaan), a trailblazing website and network of women’s rights activists in Iran, took root.
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Iran | Issue 21 (Fall 2008) )
Campaign Activist Charged By Revolutionary Court
September 8, 2008
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Sign the petition and help them reach their goal of one million signatures to end discriminatory laws against women.
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One Million Signatures campaign activist and editor of the website “Women in Iran,” Jila Baniyagoob, was summoned before the investigative branch of the Revolutionary Court on September 6, where she was charged with disruption of public order and refusal to obey police orders. Mina Jafari, Ms. Baniyagoob’s attorney, was prevented from attending the hearing, on the grounds that the case against Ms. Baniyagoob is a security case. Ms. Jafari argues that the charges are not of a security nature, and fall under the jurisdiction of lower courts. Ms. Baniyagoob denies the charges.
Zanan, Iran’s Leading Women’s Magazine, Shut Down by Government
February 8, 2008
In a significant setback for the women’s movement in Iran, the Press Supervisory Board of Iran backed by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, revoked the license of Zanan, the country’s most prominent and important women’s magazine. Zanan, which means “women” in Persian, is a monthly magazine dedicated to the reporting and analysis of women’s issues, problems, and achievements.
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Iran | Human Rights Alerts )
Persian Guide to Equality in the Family in the Maghreb Published
In November, WLP published the Persian edition of the Guide to Equality in the Family in the Maghreb for use by Iranian women’s rights activists in the "One Million Signatures" campaign for equal legal rights and family law reform. The campaign, launched in August 2006, aims to collect one million signatures and spread grassroots awareness of discriminatory laws such as those related to marriage, divorce, and child custody.
The arguments for family law reform presented in the Guide will help provide support to the legal reform efforts of the One Million Signatures campaign. The Guide is a unique advocacy tool developed by Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité, a coalition of women’s organizations from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, that presents the current state of the family law in the Maghreb, and proposes religious, human rights, sociological, and legal arguments for reform, well-supported by relevant data.
~The book is available for order ($24.95) or free download.~
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Iran | Issue 18 (Winter 2007) )
Support Iranian Women on their National Day of Solidarity
June 2, 2008
Iranian women's rights activists are calling for international support in observance of the June 12, 2006 demonstrations. Two years ago on this day, activists organized a peaceful protest demanding the revision of discriminatory laws against women in Iran. Seventy people were arrested during the gathering and continue to this day to be summoned, charged, arrested and sentenced for peaceful activism. June 12th has since been chosen by Iranian women’s rights activists as their national day of solidarity to object harmful actions which attempt to silence Iranian women.
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Sign the "One Million Signatures" campaign petition calling for an end to discriminatory laws against women such as men's uncontested right to divorce, polygamy, and child custody.
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Please read the following "Statement in Support of Iranian Women" and send your personal or organizational support for the women’s rights activists who are fighting for their basic human rights against all odds. Please send emails to wlp@learningpartnership.org and hadighaemi@iranhumanrights.org. For more information about the campaign efforts, please read below or visit the One Million Signatures website.
Iran: One Million Signatures to End Discrimination
by Abigail Somma
July 23, 2007
www.voices-unabridged.org
These days, when most people talk about Iran, the focus is on its nuclear program. But for a group of determined Iranian women, there’s a more pressing issue at hand. Since June 2006, human rights activists have been campaigning tirelessly for something that continues to elude Iranian women: equal rights.
The One Million Signatures Campaign or Change for Equality, started as a grassroots movement to collect a million signatures demanding the Iranian government change laws that discriminate against women.
Prototype Persian Course with Participants from Iran and Afghanistan
From January-March 2004, four leading Afghan and Iranian participants worked together over a ten-week period to develop, test and adapt the curriculum for the Persian eCourse.
Two Iranian women with strong backgrounds in women's rights education and advocacy were trained as facilitators for the future eCourse in Iran.
You Can't Judge An Iranian Woman by Her Cover
By Diane Sawyer
ABC News, Good Morning America
February 12, 2007
Diane Sawyer Discovers Women's Rights in Iran Are More Complicated Than Many in West Believe
Women in Iran are allowed to vote at the age of 15. They hold 4 percent of the seats in Parliament, and more than half the university students are women.
Women make up more than 30 percent of Iran's work force.
Iran: Challenging the mullahs, one signature at a time
By Maura J. Casey, Editorial Observer
The New York Times
February 7, 2007
"Well-behaved women rarely make history," my favorite bumper sticker says. It surely applies to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner whose relentless campaign against discrimination has enraged the mullahs for more than 25 years.
In a country where the law values a woman’s life at only half the price of a man’s, Ms. Ebadi will not be quiet, and she is urging other women to find their voices. Her newest effort is to help collect the signatures of one million Iranian women on a petition protesting their lack of legal rights.
