Iranian Women in the Media

The Iranian website known as “The Feminist School†was yet another media outlet that ‎was banned by Iranian authorities last year. Prior to that, a number of websites run by ‎women activists engaged in anti discrimination and justice issues were also silenced. ‎
Women in Iran have been subjected to so much abuse, to so many legal and unlawful ‎ways, and to so many laws forcing them to stay at home, that they were driven to ‎establish “large feminist schools.†Feminism and schools founded (...)

nobelwomensinitiative: : On August 8, 2008, an article was published on the website of the official Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA) and in the newspaper Jomhouri Eslami leveling a series of attacks against Dr. Ebadi and her family, including false accusations that her daughter converted to the Bahai faith, and appeared to be related to Dr. Ebadi’s decision to defend in court seven members of the Bahai minority in Iran.
On August 11 the Nobel Women’s Initiative issued a statement (...)

The Iranian “Family Protection Bill,†which is anything but protective of families, has brought together one of the largest coalitions to oppose a bill since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In response to the efforts of this coalition, the Iranian parliament (known in Iran as the Majlis) has removed the two most contested articles of this bill, Articles 23 and 25, postponing the bill’s floor discussion indefinitely. In addition, Iran’s parliament will send the bill back (...)

Women’s enew: Women’s rights activists recently succeeded in stalling a bill to ease polygamy, temporary marriage and male-bias in divorce. But Nayereh Tohidi says a nasty smear campaign and continuous arrest show the adversity they are up against.
Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women’s eNews.
(WOMENSENEWS)—In Iran, the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently proposed a bill (...)

Pour une fois, les Iraniennes peuvent crier victoire. Après des semaines de remue ménage contre une dégradation de leurs droits, elles viennent finalement d’obtenir l’annulation d’un projet de loi facilitant la polygamie. « C’était une loi rétrograde. Je ne peux que me réjouir qu’elle ne soit pas passée », se félicite Fariba Pajooh, une jeune journaliste iranienne, signataire d’une pétition qui s’opposait à cette réforme de l’actuel Code de la famille.
Objectif principal de cette loi, (...)

Discriminatory family law in Iran is on the brink of taking a few steps back! The “Family Protection Bill†passed swiftly and quietly during the first round of discussions of the legal and judicial commission of the Iranian parliament in July 2008, almost one year after it was drafted. Opposition to this bill has solidified one of the largest coalitions formed to protest a bill in recent years. An inclusive and strikingly diverse group of women activists, feminists, human rights defenders, (...)

The passage of the so-called "Family Protection Bill" by the legal and judicial commission of the ‎eighth Majlis has raised the reaction of experts and women’s rights activists. ‎
The bill was presented to the Majlis last year by the judiciary after being passed by the cabinet, ‎but members of the seventh Majlis initially refused to bring the bill to the Majlis floor. ‎However, the legal and judicial commission of the eights Majlis, in the second month of its ‎inception, retrieved the bill (...)

The One Million Signatures Campaign has reported several actions against Iranian women’s rights activists during the past week, indicating increased pressure against the women’s rights movement:
Zeinab Bayzeydi, a member of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan and of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was arrested on July 9, in Mahabad, Kurdistan. Ms. Bayzeydi was summoned and interrogated for several hours on July 5 and again for three hours on July 9, prior to her arrest and (...)