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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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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 )
Campaign Activist Khadijeh Moghaddam Released
April 16, 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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Change for Equality: Khadijeh Moghaddam member of the Mother’s Committee of the One Million Signatures Campaign, and a member of Mothers for Peace, was released on the afternoon of Wednesday April 16, after spending nine days in detention. She was greeted by her family and friends, as well as her colleagues in the One Million Signatures Campaign.
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: Join the “One Million Signatures” Campaign
Iranian parliament submits new legislation attempting to push back current family laws; in response Iranian women's rights activists take action
September 20, 2007
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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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The Iranian parliament has submitted legislation attempting to push back current family laws, reversing the few rights that exist for women. We are very concerned about this new development. Please see the article below for information on how Iranian women's activists are taking action to prevent this bill from becoming law.
In addition, the "One Million Signatures" campaign Persian website was filtered for the seventh time. The new address of the site is:
Persian: www.we4change.info
English: www.weforchange.info/english
Over 2000 Equal Rights Defenders Object to Proposed "Family Support" Legislation: In a statement issued today, 2000 equal rights defenders have objected to the Family Support Legislation submitted to parliament by the executive branch, earlier this month. The statement asserts that while lawmakers have claimed that the Family Support Legislation intends to address shortcomings in the law and bring it up to date in accordance with the needs and realities of today’s family, it has in fact pushed back family legislation and the status of women by 42 years.
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
Challenging the Mullahs, One Signature at a Time
By Maura J. Casey, Editorial Observer
The New York Times
February 7, 2007
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Iran | Press Corner )
Iranian Women's Rights Organizations Gather during Multimedia Leadership Workshop
September 2006: Twelve women leaders from seven Iranian women’s rights organizations gathered together from August 30 – September 1, 2006 to take part in a leadership training workshop using the Persian Leading to Choices multimedia curriculum.
During the workshop, participants explored ways of raising issues pertaining to women’s rights that cannot be openly discussed. One scenario involved two women waiting for a bus during which an older woman activist opens a conversation with a young girl and gradually goes on to discuss reproductive rights and the unfairness of divorce laws.
Participants also learned about the use of technology for advocacy and enacted role play scenarios to hone their negotiation skills.
Violent Crackdown on Iranian Women's June 12 Demonstration
June 15, 2006
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Iran | Human Rights Alerts )
