The 12th International Forum of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development took place in Istanbul in October, 2012, where Mahnaz Afkhami spoke on conservative religion, political regimes, and women’s rights in the MENA region.
Tag: Islam
Women Could Promote Rights Through Islam
US News & World Report interviewed Mahnaz Afkhami and Melanne Verveer on Muslim values and women’s rights. While some places in northern Africa have seen gains in women’s rights, Afkhami cautions that progress can be revoked under conservative leadership.
CNN's Amanpour: Panel Discussion with Activists on Women's Rights in the Middle East
For International Women’s Day, Mahnaz Afkhami is interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on a panel of women’s rights activists. Afkhami discusses the importance of including women in political positions, the progress made in the Middle East, and hope for the future. Afkhami states: “There are many, many more women in power, in politics, in high-value…
Iranian Women Campaign To End Discriminatory Laws Against Them
VOA News interviews Mahnaz Afkhami on Iran’s One Million Signatures Campaign, which seeks to change discriminatory laws against women. “Afkhami says the activists and their followers are extremely resilient, courageous, and inventive. ‘The reason the world heard so much about what was happening in Iran during the election is because of the sophisticated use of…
VOA Roundtable: Discriminatory Laws against Women in Iran (in Persian)
Following a violent crackdown of women’s peaceful protests in Tehran, VOA Persian aired a program on discriminatory laws against women under the Islamic Republic regime, including a Q and A with callers from all over the world with Mahnaz Afkhami as its guest. Afkhami pointed out that Iranian women had never faced such violence or…
Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_accordion admin_label=”Accordion” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [tm_pb_accordion_item title=”Overview”] A Manual for Women’s Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies 1996 / Sisterhood Is Global Institute / Co-authored Co-authored with Haleh Vaziri; Published in Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, English, Hindi, Malay, Persian, Russian, Urdu and Uzbek. Read on the Women’s Learning Partnership Website The introduction to…
Safe and Secure: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_accordion admin_label=”Accordion” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [tm_pb_accordion_item title=”Overview”] Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies 1998 / Sisterhood Is Global Institute / Bethesda, MD Co-authored; Published in Arabic, English, French, and Persian. Safe and Secure is a training manual to assist women in Muslim societies to identify sources of violence in the family,…
Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_accordion admin_label=”Accordion” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [tm_pb_accordion_item title=”Overview”] Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation 1997 / Syracure University Press / Syracuse, NY Co-edited with Erika Friedl Order on Amazon At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the international community accepted women’s rights as human rights, and with it charge to work…