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Change for Equality: In this article, I would like to briefly review the activities surrounding the One Million Signature Campaign, a number of reasons why it was chosen as the current strategy, and the way it relates to the ongoing women’s movement in Iran. In the process, a number of issues such as the need to recreate public spaces, importance of various forms of street action, centrality of young woman activists, and some of the qualitative achievements of the campaign are explored. I (...)

As I was taking my walking exercise in the prison yard in Evin I heard the the saddening news of the ratification of the new "Family protection Law" bill, again the voice of injustice, again the announcment of the crushing of women’s identity, again trying to feed us the notion of following them blindley to justify their immoral plans whilst hiding under the cloak of law. For me to belive the news was impossible so I had to ring and make sure that I had heard right.

Feminist School (Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani): On July 9 when the Iranian society was painfully witnessing the arrests of the university students, the sudden announcement of the passed Bill on "Support of Families" by the legal and judiciary commission of the parliament was broadcast.
This Bill amongst the activists of women’s movement is known as "Anti family Bill" that was introduced by Mr Ahmadinejad’s government on the 26th of august ……in the cultural commission of the parliament which was (...)

The Feminist School (Nasrin Sotudeh) : Soghra was only 9 years old when her father, empowered by his special Islamic custody rights (Velayat) sent her to work in a house in Rasht. She had just turned 13 when based on accusation of murdering that family’s son she was sent to prison. According to Iran’s criminal law, she was no longer considered a child. Therefore, she was judged as an adult and was sentenced to death (Ghesas). The judge ignored Soghra’s claim about being repetitively harassed (...)

Change for Equality: In this article, I would like to briefly review the activities surrounding the One Million Signature Campaign, a number of reasons why it was chosen as the current strategy, and the way it relates to the ongoing women’s movement in Iran. In the process, a number of issues such as the need to recreate public spaces, importance of various forms of street action, centrality of young woman activists, and some of the qualitative achievements of the campaign are explored. I (...)

I know many men who consider women small; men who enjoy degrading women and view them only as tools for satisfying their urges; men who sum up their virility in stoning women. I know men who consider their vicious treatment of women a trait of champions and heroes; men who proudly describe their abuse of women to their friends. I know men who present themselves as open-minded types in public, but beat their wives in private.
I know male judges who—free from “female sentimentality†—push (...)

Newinternationalists: Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani is one of the organizers of a campaign to gain a million signatures in support of women’s rights. Here she describes one day spent going door to door in Tehran.
I step into an alley in Nezamabad – my old neighbourhood in south Tehran, now full of working-class families and new migrants. I’m a tad hesitant, with a bitter, buried fear of something I haven’t yet done. It was in this neighbourhood that I was forbidden from riding my bicycle, aged 12. (...)