CALL FOR PAPERS

33 Years after the Revolution

And

To Mark 20 Years of ACI’s Continued Work

Yesterday, Today and

 Tomorrow of Iran

proposed date: May/June 2012

California – USA

Submission of Abstracts:    30 March 2012

FURTHER INFORMATION:

LONDON [@] ACIIRAN [.] COM

24 March 2012

‘The International Day for the Right to the Truth’

concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

"... While marking this day and ‘the right to truth’, ACI honours the memories of all victims of gross human rights violations in Iran of the last thirty three years.

Without a doubt, the right to the truth about gross human rights violations and serious violations of human rights law is an inalienable and undeniable right, linked to the duty and obligation of the Islamic Republic to protect and guarantee human rights of every Iranian citizen, and the Islamic Republic is duty bound - according to its international obligations - to conduct effective investigations, to guarantee effective remedy and to bring the perpetrators to justice..."

International Women’s Day 2012

and the Family Protection Bill in Iran

While the world celebrates international women’s day today Iranian women face further legalised discrimination. On 6 March 2012, the outgoing eighth Islamic Consultative Assembly (the parliament) passed articles of the [anti] Family Protection Bill that ...

Iranian women fight controversial ‘polygamy’ bill

Unveiling of ‘Chehel Tekeh’ protest banner from Iran

Fri 25 November 2011

FPA, 25 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5AP

On the occasion of the ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, ' 4 X1 meter protest banner made in Iran was unveiled by Association des Chercheurs Iraniens (ACI) in collaboration with the International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI).

Called “Chehel Tekeh,” the banner is supported by 15,000 names, addresses and signatures from inside Iran. It features 40 stories relating to the consequences for women of the Family Protection Act which was presented to the Islamic Consultative Assembly in November last year.

“Chehl Tekkeh” will travel around Europe to raise awareness and seek support for the fight against unjust discriminatory laws against women in Iran.

Amnesty International interviews Roya Kashefi ACI's head of human rights on the concerns over the [anti] Family Protection Bill:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/iranian-women-fight-controversial-polygamy-bill-2011-11-30

An Assessment of the Region’s Popular Movements

and

their Effect on the Events

in Iran

 Internet Survey

Initial Findings

Internet Survey – April – June 2011

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Detailed analysis of responses with over 1000 tables allowing for valuable cross referencing of information may be commissioned through ACI’s London Office.

“Devolved Power, Federalism …?”

18-20 November 2010 - Finland

Balochistan Roundtable

15 May 2010 - London, England

excerpts from the roundtable (Persian and English)

بخش اول: http://www.rozhn.tv/?lang=English&id=339&cat=

Protest against the Escalation of Executions in Iran - pdf

"... We write to register our strongest protest at the increasing number of executions in Iran. Among the five executed this morning three had their cases open and under review. While in detention they were repeatedly tortured, ill treated and degraded and deprived of the most basic right of legal counsel. No one including their lawyers and families had any knowledge of their impending executions. The condition under which they passed the last night of their lives is not yet known. It is obvious however, that they were not even allowed a final farewell with their loved ones. Earlier letters from prison, from those executed this morning, told of the atrocious conditions they had to endure while their fate was being decided in the so called courts of justice.

Justice in Iran today, however, is not only blind but deaf and dumb. Blind to see the marks of torture and abuses of law, deaf to the cries of the families and all concerned and dumb unable to speak out about the atrocities committed in its courts, detention centres and prisons under the name of ‘Islamic justice’...

...We also express our grave concern for all those who remain in detention after the June 2009 presidential election under pressure to accept false charges that potentially carry the death penalty as ultimate punishment.

Sir, we expect you to demand that Special Rapporteurs are allowed to travel to Iran. We also expect your strongest protest and unequivocal condemnations of the shameful use of execution as a tool of intimidation and oppression. May we respectfully remind you, Sir, that the United Nations as the name implies is the protector of the world’s people and not their governments and that you as the symbol of United Nations ideals and a spokesperson for the interests of the world's peoples are obliged to condemn in no uncertain terms the violations of a regime that fails to observe even its own limited procedural code. ..."

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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S CSW MEMBERSHIP

'Be Our Voice'

Campaign against all forms of capital punishment

in Iran

Supported by Iranian human rights groups and political parties

it condemns the Death Penalty and

its shameful use as a political tool in Islamic Republic’s internal factional fighting.

LIST OF PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

LIST OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS ON DEATH ROW