for ending violence and repression in Iran, we call all around the world women's rights defenders, human rights organizations and networks for active solidarity with Iranian women's movement and the movement for democracy in Iran. We further call on you, in March 2010 on the occasion of International Women's Day protests under the motto "Freedom and Equality organize gender in Iran. "
The Iranian women's movement has been fighting for over 30 years of freedom and equality in Iran. The discrimination between the sexes closely with the suppression of other population groups, such as the ethnic, religious and political minorities combined. Therefore played the nonviolent resistance of the women and men who stand up for equal rights for men in legal, political, economic and cultural fields, an important role in the development of democracy in Iran. For decades, the women fight in initiating Iran and independently and also organized different campaigns for their rights. They are constantly insults, intimidation, threats, arrests and also face imprisonment.
Eight months after the rigged presidential elections in Iran and the resulting riots brutally suppressed the resistance of the population than ever before. Here take the mental and physical oppression, such as imprisonment, torture, sexual abuse and also executions continues to grow. Currently, there are many activists of various resistance movements, like the women's organizations, the Green movement, the student movement, labor movement, etc. in addition to the arrest of detention of activists are increasingly discriminating Laws, as the law extended "family protection", in the Iranian parliament with great haste and passed. The purpose of this Act is to women's rights in the name of "strengthening" of the family even further.
be discriminated against for decades, Iranian women derived from the Sharia laws. We experience 30 years after CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), which was not signed by Iran, that Iranian women increased discrimination. Fifteen years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, also attended by Iran participated and adopted the Beijing Platform for Action was, the Iranian government at any point this Agreement meets its international obligations or to combat discrimination against women contributed.
shows in these difficult times, the international women's movement in solidarity with the Iranian fellow activists in which they not only supports women but also the democratic movement in Iran in general. For a long time, different human rights movements in Iran in constant contact with the Iranian people and international organizations.
Global solidarity is of utmost importance for the ever-repeated appeal for freedom and equality in Iran. Therefore we call the world all women's rights defenders, human rights organizations and networks for active solidarity with Iranian women's movement and the movement for democracy in Iran, organized the protest under the motto "Freedom and equality of the sexes in Iran."
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Email: iran.genderequality
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