Iran: with or without

The island of Nazarouh, one of 102 islands in Lake Oroumiyeh will be equipped especially for women.
According to newspaper Tehran Emrouz all public transport, restaurants and facilities on the island will be staffed only by women, and there will be no men on the island.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's provincial representative had no objections and declared that a women-only island is not against Islamic law.

Photo Urmia Lake NASA



The "One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding an End to Discriminatory Laws against Women" started 5 months ago and on we4change.com is an article (Farsi), written by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani.
On Payvand.com is a translation (English) by Sussan Tahmasebi.
The aim of the campaign is to collect one million signatures over the course of 2 years, with the intent of presenting these signatures to the parliament.
The priorities identified by those who sign the petition will in turn define the priorities of the campaign with respect to changes proposed to the law. Legal changes will be proposed through draft legislation and presented to the parliament for consideration. Finally all this improves the legal situation for women in Iran.
From the beginning the government acted like the campaign was a criminal offence.
Seminars were banned through lack of approval, members of the campaign got arrested for shorter or longer periods and almost everything is done to ridiculize this campaign.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl