Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Comrade Azam Kamguian, passed away رفیق اعظم کم گویان چشم برجهان فروبست

 
با کمال تاسف و اندوه به اطلاع عموم و بخصوص فعالین جنبش رهائی زن میرسانیم که رفیق اعظم کم گویان مبارز خستگی ناپذیر و از مدافعین سرسخت حقوق زنان و کودکان در پس دوره طولانی  بیماری  در لندن چشم برجهان فروبست.

اعظم کم گویان از بنیانگذاران سازمان رهائی زن و از رهبران عملی و نظری جنبش رهائی زن، شخصیتی دوستداشتنی، خوش کلام و خوش قلم بود. گستره فعالیتهای اعظم کم گویان در راه رسیدن به آزادی و برابری و مبارزه برای برقراری یک دنیای بهتر، بیشمار است. 
چندین جلد کتاب به فارسی و انگلیسی از جمله 
اسلام و حقوق زن، 
رهایی زنان و روندهای سیاسی در خاورمیانه
، و 
 اسلام، زنان، مصافها و چشم اندازها

.را به رشته تحریر درآورد
 
سازمان رهائی زن از ژرفای فکری و نظری اعظم و سردبیری وی در هفته نامه رهائی زن سری دوم بهره مند شد. اعظم در حین شوخ طبعی در امر مبارزه برای آزادی و برابری بسیار جدی و پرکار بود.
سازمان رهائی زن درگذشت رفیق اعظم عزیز و فداکار را به خانواده، دوستان، همرزمان و فعالین جنبش رهائی زن صمیمانه تسلیت میگوید.
 ما یکی از یاران وفادار، و رهبران فکری جنبش رهائی زن را از دست دادیم. یادش ماندگار و راهش پر رهرو باد.
سازمان رهائی زن
اول ژوئیه 2025

It is with great sadness and sorrow that we inform the public, especially the activists of the women's emancipation movement, that Comrade Azam Kamgayan, a tireless fighter and staunch defender of the rights of women and children, passed away in London after a long illness..

Azam Kamgoyan, one of the founders of The Organization for Emancipation of Women and one of the practical and theoretical leaders of the women's emancipation movement, was a lovable, eloquent, and well-written personality. The scope of Azam Kamgoyan's activities in the path to achieving freedom and equality and the struggle for a better world is innumerable.

She has authored several books in Persian and English, including
Islam and Women's Rights,
Women's Emancipation and Political Trends in the Middle East
, and
Islam, Women, Confrontations and Perspectives

The Organization for Emancipation of Women benefited from Azam's intellectual and theoretical depth and her editorial work in the Women's Emancipation Weekly, Series II. Azam, while having a sense of humor, was very serious and hardworking in the struggle for freedom and equality.
The Organization for Emancipation of Women extends its sincere condolences to the family, friends, comrades and activists of the Women's Emancipation Movement on the passing of our dear and devoted Comrade Azam.
We have lost one of the loyal companions and intellectual leaders of the Women's Emancipation Movement. May her memory be eternal and her path be filled with marchers.
The Organization for Emancipation of Women
July 1, 2025

بیانیه اقدام مشترک تشکل‌های مستقل زنان ایرانی در باره شرایط وخیم زندانیان سیاسی

 
بیانیه اقدام مشترک تشکل‌های مستقل زنان ایرانی در باره شرایط وخیم زندانیان سیاسی در شرایط جنگ
!و اعدام که دو روی یک سکه اند












Saturday, May 10, 2025

Honor killing is a crime against humanity قتل ناموسی جنایت علیه بشریت



Honor killings are crimes against humanity

In the midst of the news, we read that Fatemeh Barkhodari, a Sabzevari teacher and mother of three, was stabbed to death in public by a man who was calling her husband on May 12, 1404, coinciding with Teacher's Day. This is the tip of the iceberg of an unforgivable crime of honor killing victims that has emerged in the dark heart of the uncultured and religiously oppressed society and challenges the conscience of anyone who considers themselves human. Of course, we, along with thousands of human rights activists and defenders of women's rights, strongly condemn these crimes and demand the prosecution of the murderers. But these condemnations are worthless until we restore the balance of power in every neighborhood, village, family and tribe against this barbarity and prevent the reproduction of these human tragedies, because they will not prevent the occurrence of the next honor killing.

To consign the most brutal manifestation of patriarchy to history, we need to establish a mass movement and fight this phenomenon of the age of ignorance on all fronts. A group of teachers have condemned and scrutinized these crimes in their statement, and by doing so, they have willingly or unwillingly become the pioneers of the movement to end these crimes. We call on all women's and children's rights activists, human rights activists, progressive and humanitarian journalists locally and around the world, and especially education and training personnel, to pay attention to our proposed provisions and, based on the balance of local and regional forces, to confront this stinking monster.

The banner of fighting this phenomenon must be raised simultaneously on three fronts: the media, the judiciary, and education.

- Honorable and humanitarian journalists are at the forefront of exposing these crimes, the perpetrators, and the officials who have helped perpetuate these tragedies with their silence. The dormant conscience of civilized people in that society must be awakened, and the petrified motive for these murders must be challenged in every newspaper, satellite media, and social media, and this shameful mark on the foreheads of urban people who pass by these crimes indifferently must be exposed so that they can try to erase it.

- Direct contact with honorable lawyers in the judiciary to form fact-finding committees and file cases against all those involved in the decision-making, preparation, and murder of women and children, and legal prosecution of officials who have been aware of these crimes in their area of ​​responsibility and who have kept the matter quiet, including the mayor, the chief of police and  judicial officials.

- Educational staff, including principals, teachers, and professors, should spend some hours of class raising awareness about the toxic ideas and petrified and backward thoughts that have led to these crimes, according to the age of the students.

In fact, the duty of the educational institution in breaking the vicious circle of producing and reproducing the victim and the murderers in the phenomenon of honor killings is much heavier, and from the first grade of elementary school, along with educational sessions with parents and teachers, they must protect their students from these mental and criminal poisons with tact and initiative.

Men and women who seek freedom and equality, we cry out in unison

Honor killings are shameful and condemned as crimes against humanity!

Organization for Emancipation of Women

May 10, 2025