From: aoliai-AT-students.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 18:51:12 -0500 Subject: Re: Urgent Action Alert--Iran >Return-Path: owner-third-world-women-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU >X-Authentication-Warning: lists.village.Virginia.EDU: domo set sender to owner-third-world-women-AT-localhost using -f >Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:47:06 -0400 >From: Lizzy Poole <lizzy-AT-cybertours.com> >Organization: RADICAL JOURNEY >To: third-world-women-AT-lists.village.Virginia.edu >Subject: Re: Urgent Action Alert--Iran >References: <v01540b09b19aa78033c2-AT-[193.189.218.138]> >Sender: owner-third-world-women-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: third-world-women-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU > >> forwarded by Lizzy - another outbreak in the war against women worldwide! > >> >From: Lea Browning <lbrowning-AT-igc.apc.org> >> >Subject: Urgent Action Alert--Iran >> > >> >The Sisterhood is Global Institute sends the following Urgent >> >Action Alert re women's human rights activists who have been >> >threatened in Iran. >> > Lea Browning >> > >> >--------------------------------------------------------------- >> >U R G E N T A C T I O N A L E R T >> > >> >IRAN'S WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS THREATENED >> > May 28, 1998 >> > >> > >> >On April 24, 1998 the Sisterhood Is Global Institute issued an alert about >> >the bills introduced in the Majlis, the Parliament of the Islamic Republic >> >of Iran, to segregate hospital care, to forbid using pictures of women on >> >the front pages of Iranian publications and, more importantly, to curtail >> >discussions of women's rights outside the shari`a. We have now received new >> >disturbing information about statements made by certain members of the >> >Islamic Assembly that further jeopardize the security of women working for >> >the promotion of human rights in Iran. >> > >> >Recently, the Majlis made public a statement by Representative Ms. Marzieh >> >Wahid Dastjerdi in defense of a proposal that makes any criticism of laws >> >that discriminate against women's human rights illegal. In her speech, Ms. >> >Dastjerdi used excerpts from well-known articles by Mehrangiz Kar and Shirin >> >Ebadi, two prominent women lawyers working for women's rights in Iran. >> >After reading from the articles on the floor of the Assembly, Ms. Dastjerdi >> >said, "If you [members of the Majlis] do not pass this bill, we will take >> >care of them [women activists] ourselves." Given the present charged >> >political atmosphere in Iran, such a statement transgresses the limits of >> >parliamentary debate and may be construed as a direct provocation of the >> >extremists and religious zealots to act against the two lawyers. It is >> >unfortunate that such an obviously inflammatory statement was allowed to be >> >made in the Assembly; it is unconscionable that it was made public by the >> >leadership of the Assembly. >> > >> >Action Requested: >> > >> >Please write to the Iranian authorities expressing your support for Ms. Kar >> >and Ms. Ebadi. Ask them to condemn threats against women's human rights >> >activists and urge them to rescind these laws which will reinforce gender >> >apartheid in Iran. >> > >> >Addresses: >> > >> >Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami, President >> >Office of the President, Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, >> >The Islamic Republic of Iran >> >Fax: 98-21-674-790 >> > >> >Hojjatoleslam Ali Akbar Nateqe-Nouri, President, Islamic Consultative Assembly >> >Imam Khomeini Avenue, Tehran, The Islamic Republic of Iran >> >Fax: 98-21-204-0541 >> > >> >H.E. Mehdi Faridzadeh, Ambassador, Iranian Mission to the United Nations >> >622 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA >> >Tel: 212-687-2020 >> >Fax: 212-867-7086 >> > >> >__________________________ >> >Sisterhood Is Global Institute >> >4343 Montgomery Avenue >> >Suite 201 >> >Bethesda, MD 20814, USA >> >Tel: 301-657-4355 >> >Fax: 301-657-4381 >> >mailto:sigi-AT-igc.apc.org >> >http://www.sigi.org/ >> > >> >> Women's International League for Peace and Freedom >> International Secretariat >> 1, rue de Varembe >> C.P. 28 >> 1211 Geneva 20 >> Tel: +41 22 733 61 75 >> Fax: +41 22 740 10 63 > > > > > >
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