WUNRN
Iran Women
Absent at CSW 56 but Their Video & Their Voices Prevail
"We, a group of women activists in Iran who
demand equality, would have liked to attend the fifty-sixth session of the UN
Commission on the Status of Women in New York. But because of all the
threats that the participating women in the previous years have been facing, we
decided to talk to you from afar, with the hope that you, on behalf of Iranian
women, would defend our rights in the efforts to eliminate all types of gender
discriminations and violence against women.
We hope that you would encourage the Iranian
government, who is a member of CSW, to comply with its international
obligations to create gender equality.
We also hope that with the pressure of the
world's women's movement activists and the follow-up of the UN, Iranian women's
activists would be granted a guaranteed safety to attend the next sessions, and
therefore, would be able to work with you side by side towards reaching gender
equality. But what do Iranian women suffer from in reality?"
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