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The role of women in the current struggle for democracy is distinctly different from that during the 1979 revolution, when women activists participated in the broader struggle against the Shah and did not highlight women’s rights issues specifically. As a result, women lost out. In the current struggle we are determined to highlight women’s issues and women’s rights as critical and distinct components of the struggle for democracy.

Many of our parents, along with their brave daughters and bold sons of our land and country, walked through the forgotten streets of happiness and security of the days prior to the election dancing, and singing, but ended up in the blood-spattered and murderous streets after the election, shocked, fearful, and dumbfounded, seeing the violence and brutality of the police forces in the spring of 2009, but still stayed in the streets! We would never forget these bitter days of our history even if we forgive!

According to many in Iran, the country’s June 12 presidential elections constitute a great “opportunity.†It’s important to note, however, that the so-called opportunity brought about by the election does not necessarily reflect a heightened degree of openness – or of control – of the political atmosphere; rather it is about the special political state in which Iranian society now finds itself for a short period of time. In fact, even if we consider the “elections†as “selections,†even (...)

The ancient country of Iran in the last two centuries has witnessed many internal and regional political crises. The major internal political events in the last 150 years, beginning with the attack by Tsarist Russia on Iran, the Tobacco movement, Constitutional Revolution, the movement for the nationalisation of oil, the 1979 Revolution and the 1997 reform movement

Remarks: Iranian voters will soon cast their ballots for one of the four candidates who have passed the Guardianship Council’s ideological screening. Few people in Iran and even fewer outside believe that the election of a new president would bring meaningful changes to the Islamic regime’s policies. The country’s cleverly designed and forcefully safeguarded political system makes effective challenges from outside virtually impossible. The rule by intimidation and terror, the cancerous (...)

feministschool: Based on the initiative of some members and active groups of the Iranian Women’s Coalition, in only one day, on May 23rd, 3000 of the coalition’s informational brochures were handed out to Tehran’s residents.
Upon the coordination of the Women’s Movement Coalition, it was decided to proceed according to the general agreement of “intelligently seizing the moments and chances of the momentary election campaign†, and to use the extensive gathering of the reformist forces on (...)

feminist school:The coalition of Iranian women has entered the debate pertaining to the tenth presidential election campaign with these two specific and pivotal demands:
1. Making Iran a state-party to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
2. The elimination of the discriminatory laws against women, specifically through the revision of articles 19, 20, 21, and 115 of the Constitution, so that these would unconditionally (...)

Feminist School The Iranian women’s movement, which in the past years has pursued various ways and means of voicing the demands of Iranian women, and actively sought to achieve these, is now using the opportunity posed by the tenth Iranian presidential elections to form a coalition. By stating some of the basic demands of Iranian women and raising public awareness, the coalition intends to affect decision-making institutions and individuals. Hence, the coalition has entered the debate (...)

Feminist School :About two weeks ago, sitting behind my computer early one morning in London , I received an email inviting me to support a Coalition formed by several groups within the larger women’s movement in Iran . The accompanying leaflet went to great lengths explaining that the Coalition’s purpose was not to support the elections, a particular candidate or indeed to encourage anyone to vote in the forthcoming presidential elections

The Coalition of the Iranian Women’s Movement for Viocing their demands in the Election
Over years, we, as part of Iranian women’s movement and civil rights advocates with diverse backgrounds; NGOs, political parties, various campaigns, media, trade unions and individuals had tried various methods and when necessary, had walked in unison to pursue our demands.
On the occasion of the forthcoming presidential elections in Iran, we are determined to form another broad coalition in order to (...)