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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 )
Growing demands for protection and guarantee of Shirin Ebadi's civil and political rights
January 5, 2009
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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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The situation of Nobel peace laureate and human rights defender Shirin Ebadi grows increasingly critical. Over the last two weeks the organization she heads, Defenders of Human Rights Center, was shut down, false accusations of tax evasion were made against her in the media, her private law offices were raided and confidential case files seized, and on January 1st a mob of 150 demonstrated in front of her house in an orchestrated attempt to connect her to the Israeli actions in Gaza. Protestors began kicking the door to her home and vandalized the exterior of her property in an attempt to further intimidate her.
We condemn the Iranian government's campaign against the country's most prominent human rights activist, and demand that they guarantee Shirin Ebadi's safety and her civil and political rights.
Join the over eighty human rights organizations and activists who have expressed grave concern for Ms. Ebadi's safety and human rights. Send an email to wlp@learningpartnership.org.
Reform and Regression in Iran: Advocating for Change of Family Laws before and after the Revolution
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani of the Feminist School Interviews Mahnaz Afkhami
Family laws in Muslim-majority societies determine most crucial rights for women, and often serve as a barometer for women's overall social status. Across Muslim-majority societies women are advocating for reform of these laws to accommodate their changed family and social roles, and to reflect their heightened awareness of their individual rights.
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Iran | Family Law Reform Campaign in Muslim-majority Countries )
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) )
The Politics of Participation: Women and Transformative Leadership
Presented by Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) in cooperation with the Dialogue Project of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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Iran | Kyrgyzstan | Malaysia | Mauritania | Nicaragua | Nigeria | Pakistan | Palestine | 2008 Events | Events )
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.
