For the cessation of state violence and suppression in Iran, we call on all women, women’s organizations and networks to show active solidarity with the Iranian women.
For more than 100 years now, the Iranian women have been fighting for freedom and equal rights. After 30 years of Islamic rule in Iran, women in Iran or in exile, independently or as members of numerous campaigns, fight against their discrimination under Islamic law. During their struggle in Iran, they have constantly been confronted with threats, intimidation and custody. Today, many of their activists are imprisoned.
Eight months after the rigged presidency elections in Iran, and the riots resulting from them, resistance of the population is being suppressed even more brutally than before. Physical and psychological repression, including custody, torture, sexual abuse, long prison sentences and executions, has intensified strongly. Currently, many female activists of various oppositional groups, such as women’s rights organizations, the Green movement, the students’ movement, national minorities’ movements, and the labor movement are in custody, and with every new day, the list of those detained is getting longer.
Thus, 30 years after the adoption of the “Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women“ (CEDAW) – which has, however, never been signed by Iran – we are looking back at 30 years of discrimination of women in the name of the laws of Sharia in Iran.
We call on all women’s organizations and feminists to organize actions for the abolition of state violence and for the support the women’s movement for freedom and equal rights in Iran in March 2010.
Iranisch-deutscher Frauenverein Köln e. V.
Demonstration
Saturday, March 6, 2010
12:00
Wallrafplatz, Cologne, Germany
