Secularism
Thursday 19 Mar 09
ranian women’s rights movement, being based on “equality” and insisting on the necessity of legal equality of men and women, has no foundation other than secularism. In a religious government, equality of men and women is impossible. In spit of this, one must not claim that secularism is the only tendency present in the women’s rights movement in today’s Iran.

A Conversation
Thursday 19 Mar 09
Iran is pregnant, like always. Maybe this time the baby that is due will not turn out to be a freak of nature and this hope gives this downtrodden people something to which they can cling. Hopefully a new being will be born, and grow to play a vital role in human rights, acknowledging fundamental rights of the religious, the dissenters, women, men, Baha'i, Communist, nationalist, liberal, ethnic identity-seeker, non-believer, non-Muslim and all others.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Thursday 19 Mar 09
Sixty years have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved. ‎The declaration is the beginning of a new broad global initiative. Extensive research and ‎constructive debates have been raged over it at the global level

Discrimination Against Women Under Iranian Law
Thursday 19 Mar 09
As soon as the revolution succeeded, women’s rights were attacked in the name of Islam. The topics immediately discussed were: a) forced veiling, b) barring women judges from presiding in courts, and c) annulling the amendments that gave rights to women in family law. These discussions were carried out to put pressure on the public to eventually change the law. The effort started with the issuance of fatwas, which are edicts by a recognized religious authority in Islam. Below, we will see how the rights of Iranian women were violated.