Iran

Les tables rondes internationales, le 9 mars 2010 de 16h à 18h à l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris.  La Ville de Paris invite 5 figures du féminisme international qui portent un combat essentiel, parfois au péril de leur vie : Lubna Ahmad Al-Husseini : journaliste, auteur de l’ouvrage « 40 coup de fouet pour un pantalon », paru aux Editions Plon en 2009. Le 3 juillet 2009, Lubna Al-Husseini est arrêtée par la police à Khartoum. Son crime : avoir porté un pantalon. La loi soudanaise la condamne à 40 coups de fouet pour « atteinte à la moralité publique ». Depuis elle n’a de cesse de se défendre et par la même de faire évoluer les lois et les mentalités au Soudan. Elle parcourt aussi le monde pour faire connaître sa lutte et engager des solidarités ici et ailleurs.

Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of dictatorship and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders, writes Elahi Amani. In the process of finding a new transitional global identity, Iran state authorities have steadily continued in the use of legislative delays, reversal of legal means and arrests of dissidents, activists and journalists. Younger, as well as older, women human rights defenders, are now finding themselves victim to increasing intelligence policies of non-disclosure, intimidation and repression.

In March of 2008, Women Living under Muslim Laws and Concordia University organized a symposium to discuss the impact of Muslim women's invovlement in sports, especially in the context of Iran. Some Muslim women athletes have used sport to inscribe resistant meanings that challenge social norms, while others have used it to express and reinforce these norms. The full report is attached.

As the review of Iran’s human record under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process concluded at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Iranian government demonstrated its utter lack of respect for internationally accepted norms by simultaneously accepting and rejecting recommendations of UN members with regard to addressing the critical situation of human rights in Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.