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Feminist School:Feminist School web site has been filtered on April 22nd ,2010
This will be the 14th time that the web site is being filtered. The last time was on the 8th of March 2010 on the anniversary of the International Women’s Day.
Please Note: The new web address is:www.iranianfeministschool.com

Feminist School:Iranian women’s rights activists held their second green coalition gathering in the capital of Iran .During the gathering women were singing the well known song «Join us».
This friendly ceremony had speakers such as Shahla Lahiji (publisher and women’s rights activist) Zahra Rahnavard, Minoo Mortazi, Zohreh Tonekaboni, Shahla Ezazi, Fatemeh farhangkhah, Narges Mohamadi, Nayereh Tavakoli and Nasrin Sotoudeh (defending lawyer)and also some of political prisoners’ families like (...)

Feminist School:In the city of Poggibonsi, in Italy, a ceremony was held in commemoration of 19 partisan who were killed by Nazis in 1944 for the crime of defending their homeland. This ceremony is held annually on March 20 to honor and relate the experiences, sweet or bitter, of those young men.
In this year’s memorial ceremony, a great emphasis was placed on the Iranian movement, specifically the women’s and student’s movements. The mayor of the city, Ms. Lucia Coccheri, acknowledging the (...)

Number of women activists in the letter to Mousavi and Karoubi reminded them not to forget women’s demands whilst enquiring on Iranian people’s rights.
Complete letter:
The 10th presidential election in Iran, as you are aware was not only news worthy of its sad and unfortunate eventualities but also for all social and civil activists was an apparent show of political and civil maturity of the people, who were able to put forward their demands by becoming socially active to make the (...)

Change for Equality: Over 1200 women’s rights activists and equal rights defenders have signed a statement objecting to the draft "Family Protection" bill currently in Parliament, which they claim will erode women’s rights within the family even further. The statement issued by a coalition of women’s rights activists working to prevent the ratification of this draft bill, which they have dubbed the "Anti-Family Bill" appears below.
People of Iran, men and women
The Legal and Judicial (...)

During the past few days after the incidents of Ashura, large number of activists such as Mansoureh Shojaee, Zohreh Tanekaboni, Badarolssadat Mofid, Mahin Fahimi, Leyla Tavassoli, Noushin Ebadi, Nasrin Vaziri, Nilofar Hashemi Azar, Atiyeh Yousefi, Bahareh Hedayat

Feminist School: Parisa Kakaee, the women activist and a member of the Committee for Human Rights Reporters, was arrested on January 1, after responding to a telephone summons and appearing at the office of the Intelligence Ministry. Currently seven members of the Committee are being detained in Ward 209 of Evin prison, and other members have been threatened and summoned.
In the following interview, we spoke with Parisa Kakaee’s mother.
Q:What was Parisa like as a young girl?
A:She was (...)

Feminist School: Three weeks since Mansoureh Shojaee, scholar and woman’s activist and one of the founding members of the Campaign for One Million Signatures, was arrested, no one yet knows the reason for her detention. She was detained by the security forces after midnight on December 28 at her home; however, her husband and son, who were present at home at the time

Sarymeh Ebadi, 30 and BoAli Johnfeshani, 32 are at imminent risk of stoning to death after being convicted of “adultery†in the city of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. According to the recent news, their sentences have been approved by the province court on January 6 (Day 16) without representation by a lawyer.
Despite the moratorium imposed in 2002, stoning sentences continued to be implemented in Iran.
Iran’s Penal Code prescribes execution by stoning. It even dictates that the stones (...)

Feminist School:Nasrin Sotoudeh, the defending lawyer of Mansoureh Shojaee, returned to the Revolutionary Court today, January 12th, and was informed that her client’s request to change her detention order was rejected.
Nasrin Sotoudeh added, "I returned to the Revolutionary Court to follow up on the case of Mansoureh Shojaee and that of my other clients. I was informed that Mansoureh Shojaee has objected to her detention order and asked that it be changed. Her request had been sent to the (...)