Date: 8 March 2012 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 allows polygamy allows temporary marriage lasting from a negotiated few minutes to a number of years allows girls of thirteen and younger to be married remains
Written by ACI in 8 March 12 Read more[gallery columns="4" ids="395,396,390,385"] Foreign Press Association, 25 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5AP Read Amnesty International interview with Roya Kashefi On the occasion of the ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 4 x 1 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
Written by ACI in 25 November 11 Read moreRef: 201 / M / 501 Date: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 HE Ban Ki-Moon UN Secretary General UN – New York Your Excellency, I would like to draw your attention to an urgent environmental crisis unfolding in North West of Iran with national, regional and global consequences. Lake Oroumieh, the world’s third largest salt lake and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, is drying up at an alarming rate due to drought, misguided irrigation
Written by ACI in 30 August 11 Read moreRef: 173/M/386 Date: Sunday, 09 May 2010 His Excellency Ban Ki Moon Secretary General of the United Nations Dear Secretary General, Escalation of Executions in Iran letter in pdf We write to register our strongest protest at the increasing number of executions in Iran. Among the five executed this morning[i] three had their cases open and under review. While in detention they were repeatedly tortured, ill treated and degraded and deprived of
Written by ACI in 9 May 10 Read moreDate: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 Ref: 172/M/384 His Excellency Hamidon Ali President of ECOSOC UN - NY Your Excellency, Islamic Republic and membership of CSW We are writing to express our grave concern at the news that the Islamic Republic may be joining the Commission on the Status of Woman. With respect Sir, this is a warning to a Commission whose function and duty is to ensure gender equality and advancement of women globally
Written by ACI in 27 April 10 Read moreکمپین علیه هرگونه مجازات اعدام در ایران دانلود پی دی اف پنجشنبه هشتم بهمن ماه 1388، مرد جوانی در ایران اعدام شد. در زمان وقوع جرائم انتصابی او بیشتر از 16 – 17 سال نمی توانسته داشته باشد. به این معنی او یکی دیگر از قربانیان سیاسی اعدامهای زیر 18 سال بود. اعترافات او زیر فشار و تهدید و در حالیکه خواهر باردارش در اطاق بازجوئی و در حضور او تهدید می شد گرفته
Written by ACI in 3 February 10 Read more“Be Our Voice!” Download PDF: 190KB London, 3 February 2010 - On 27 January 2010, a young man was executed in Iran. At the time of his alleged offence he could not have been more than 16 or 17. He is the first juvenile offender convicted and executed on political charges. He made his ‘confession’ under duress while watching his pregnant sister being threatened by security forces. She later lost the baby. Arrested two months
Written by ACI in 3 February 10 Read more‘Be Our Voice’ Download PDF: 14 kb Today, an anti death penalty in Iran campaign is launched. 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. London, 3 February 2010 - The Islamic Republic unjustly executed its first minor on political charges on 27 January 2010. Four girls and 134 boys, all juvenile offenders, remain
Written by ACI in 3 February 10 Read more4 girls and 134 boys are on death row today in Iran. All have committed their alleged offences when they were under the age of 18 and recognised as a child according to international law and Islamic Republic's international obligations as signatory to the Rights of the Child Convention; This is a full list of their names and case details Download Excel File 104kb
Written by ACI in 3 February 10 Read moreRef: 168/M/377 As the world celebrates Human Rights Day on December 10, and world over human rights defenders are celebrated and honoured, in Iran they are arrested, detained, tortured, imprisoned and given long custodial terms. The protection and promotion of human rights has become nothing but a mockery in Iran. International obligations and commitments are ignored. Even Islamic human rights, which disregards the universality of equality of rights, is not observed. The Islamic Republic’s
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