Women’s Liberation-Iran: Issue 40

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Monday October 06, 2008 15:45

by Maryam Kousha - The Organisation for Women’s Liberation-Iran

Women’s Liberation-Iran: Issue 40 is now available online. This is the journal of The Organisation for Women’s Liberation-Iran

Articles include:
The 5th European Social Forum
New legal curbs on female students rights in iran
Conference in London, 8 March 2009: Why is Secularism essential?
Against Gender Apartheid in Iran.

The OWL fights for the following demands:

1- Complete equal rights for women and men; abolition of discriminatory laws, particularly laws in relation to family, marriage, divorce, and parental responsibility, for children;

2- Abolition of compulsory veiling and for freedom of dress;

3- Complete abolition of segregation;

4- Access to equal resources in education, employment, sports and cultural activities;

5- Separation of religion from the state and education.