On 2 November, a female student from Tehran's Science and Research University (apparently called Ahu Daryaei) removed her clothes on campus in protest to being harassed by security forces over mandatory hijab rules.
She was violently beaten, arrested and reportedly transferred to a psychiatric ward.
It is the Islamic regime of Iran’s control and suppression of women’s bodies, it is sharia, compulsory veiling, the hatred of women that is the madness, not women’s defiance and screams against misogyny.
When being a woman is a crime, when women’s bodies, hair, voices, sexuality are deemed blasphemous, corrupt and a source of fitnah, nudity becomes an important form of resistance.
FEMEN and One Law for All stand with #StudentOfScienceResearch and demand her immediate release.
We call on women everywhere to join an International Day of Action for the #StudentOfScienceResearch by posting photos and videos of ourselves on Friday 8 November using these hashtags:
#GirlOfScienceResearch
#دختر_علوم_تحقیقات
Alarm At New Sikh Court
For many years, One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters (SBS) and other organisations in the UK have campaigned against religious courts like the Sharia courts or Beth Dinn. We are extremely concerned to see the recent establishment of a Sikh court as well.
Religious courts actively undermine and obstruct access to justice and violate women’s and children’s rights. Rather than establishing more religious courts that represent the fundamentalist agenda, we call on the government to end the religious-Right's use of the Arbitration Act 1996 in family matters and end religious courts once and for all.
For more information on the new Sikh court, see:
The Sikh Court: Parallel Justice Systems are a Danger to Women
In peril: religious authorities are closing in on minority women’s rights!
Events
Maryam Namazie gave the keynote address at the October 19 National Secular Society Secularism 2024 conference arguing against the notion that 'East' and 'West' are fundamentally and irreconcilably different, by stressing our common humanity.
Focusing on the story of the secular 'Women, Life, Freedom' movement in Iran that followed the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini, Namazie urged secularists to act in solidarity ‘across borders and boundaries’ in defence of universal values.
Her speech on ‘confronting identity politics, a breeding ground for division and dehumanisation’ can be found in The Freethinker.
Other upcoming speaking engagements this month:
14 November 2024, Cambridge Union, ‘This House Believes Feminism is Incompatible with Religion’. See details.
29 November-1 December 2024, Reggio Emilia, Giornate della laicita festival. See details.
For more information or to donate, visit One Law for All’s website.
It is the Islamic regime of Iran’s control and suppression of women’s bodies, it is sharia, compulsory veiling, the hatred of women that is the madness, not women’s defiance and screams against misogyny.
When being a woman is a crime, when women’s bodies, hair, voices, sexuality are deemed blasphemous, corrupt and a source of fitnah, nudity becomes an important form of resistance.
FEMEN and One Law for All stand with #StudentOfScienceResearch and demand her immediate release.
We call on women everywhere to join an International Day of Action for the #StudentOfScienceResearch by posting photos and videos of ourselves on Friday 8 November using these hashtags:
#GirlOfScienceResearch
#دختر_علوم_تحقیقات
Alarm At New Sikh Court
For many years, One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters (SBS) and other organisations in the UK have campaigned against religious courts like the Sharia courts or Beth Dinn. We are extremely concerned to see the recent establishment of a Sikh court as well.
Religious courts actively undermine and obstruct access to justice and violate women’s and children’s rights. Rather than establishing more religious courts that represent the fundamentalist agenda, we call on the government to end the religious-Right's use of the Arbitration Act 1996 in family matters and end religious courts once and for all.
For more information on the new Sikh court, see:
The Sikh Court: Parallel Justice Systems are a Danger to Women
In peril: religious authorities are closing in on minority women’s rights!
Events
Maryam Namazie gave the keynote address at the October 19 National Secular Society Secularism 2024 conference arguing against the notion that 'East' and 'West' are fundamentally and irreconcilably different, by stressing our common humanity.
Focusing on the story of the secular 'Women, Life, Freedom' movement in Iran that followed the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini, Namazie urged secularists to act in solidarity ‘across borders and boundaries’ in defence of universal values.
Her speech on ‘confronting identity politics, a breeding ground for division and dehumanisation’ can be found in The Freethinker.
Other upcoming speaking engagements this month:
14 November 2024, Cambridge Union, ‘This House Believes Feminism is Incompatible with Religion’. See details.
29 November-1 December 2024, Reggio Emilia, Giornate della laicita festival. See details.
For more information or to donate, visit One Law for All’s website.
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