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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
زنده باد هشت مارس روزجهانی زن
امسال در شرایطی به استقبال روز جهانی زن در
ایران میرویم که خیابانهای بسیاری از شهرهای ایران شاهد اعتراض حق طلبانه و روزمره بازنشستگان از همه اقشار اجتماعی که
جمعیت قابل توجهی از آنان را زنان تشکیل میدهند هستیم. زنان دوشادوش مردان در جنبش
سراسری فرهنگیان و برای دفاع از حرمت انسانی و حق
معاش در خور انسان امروزی و ارتقا سطح دانش فرزندان دلبند جامعه ماست. پیوستن روزافزون زنان به جنبش اعتراضی
فرهنگیان در حال برهم زدن توازن قوا، بین عدالتخواهی مردمی و حاکمیت ارتجاعی،
چپاولگر و سرکوبگر رژیم اسلامی است. فعالین جنبش رهائی زن تمام قد از مبارزات برحق
کارگران، فرهنگیان، پرستاران و بازنشستگان دفاع میکنند.
چهار دهه از نخستین تعرض وسیع ارتجاع اسلامی به
حقوق زنان میگذرد. حاکمان تازه بدوران رسیده با شعار یا رو سری یا توسری سودای
بردگی ابدی زنان در نظام سرا پا تبعیض اسلامی را در سر میپروراندند. از همان ابتدا
با تظاهرات وسیع زنان در اولین هشت مارس، جنبش رهائی زن در ایران اسلام زده کلید
خورد. ارتجاع اسلامی اوباش و تحصیلکرده هایش را بسیج کرد تا این جنبش را در خیابان
و در اندیشه سرکوب کند. سعی کردند با روز فاطمه زهرا و زینب این روز و آرمانهایش
را بفراموشخانه بفرستند. غافل از آنکه جنبشی که با عزم جزم زنان سوسیالیست کلید
خورد با صغرا و کبرا به خانه نمیرود بلکه در هر شکل ممکن به حیات خود ادامه
میدهد و با انتقال تجربیات و سنت مبارزاتی خود به نسلهای بعدی مبارزه برای تحقق
آزادی و برابری را بسرانجام میرساند.
توده های تحت ستم و استثمار در خیزش دیماه 96 و
آبان 98 و جنبش 1401 در رفراندمی مردم خیز رای خود را به خاکسپاری این نظام گندیده
و متعفن داده اند. مشارکت گسترده زنان دراین مصاف نشان از پایان تحمل کردن نظام و
قوانین زن ستیز و ضد انسانسی حاکمیت اسلام میباشد. جرقه ای که از قتل حکومتی مهسا
ژینا امینی به عبای پوسیده نظام زن ستیز زده شد، گستردگی جنبش زن زندگی آزادی و
مطالبات برابری طلبانه در اعماق جامعه ریشه داونده است. این جنبش، حجاب، این سمبل
یوغ بردگی زن و ستون اصلی تبعیض جنسی و تحقیر زن را نشانه گرفت ورژیم را وادار به
عقب نشینی در اجرای قانون ارتجاعی حجاب و عفاف رژیم کرده است. ما شاهد حضور نسلی
از زنان و مردان آزادیخواه و برابری طلب در صحنه مبارزه برای احقاق حقوق زن هستیم
که تازه نفس و مصمم در هر مکان و زمان ممکن نظام متحجر و پوسیده حاکم را به چالش
میکشد.
واقعیت امروزی حکایت از برهم خوردن توازن قوای
اجتماعی دارد. دو بال اصلاح طلب و محافظه کار خفاش حاکم که در دیماه شکسته شد، دیگر
قابل ترمیم نیست. در این زمستان سرد ناتوانی رژیم در تامین برق، گاز، سیب زمینی و
مهار گرانی تحت حاکمیت ویروس اسلامی، سلامت مردم را بخطر انداخته است. جنبش رهائی
زن در همبستگی با جنبش دانشجوئی و جنبش کارگری و جنبش فرهنگیان و بازنشستگان،
پرستاران و با دیگر اقشار تحت ستم فریاد میزند به کمتر از آزادی و برابری و یک
زندگی شایسته انسان امروز رضایت نمیدهیم.
بتاریخ سپردن حاکمیت اسلام زن ستیز دور نیست!
زن زندگی آزادی و برابری
سازمان رهائی زن
8 مارس 2025
کلیک برای نسخه پی دی اف بیانیه
Long live March 8th, International
Women's Day
This year, we
are welcoming International Women's Day in Iran in a situation where the
streets of many Iranian cities are witnessing the daily protests of pensioners
from all social classes, a significant number of whom are women. Women stand
side by side with men in the nationwide movement of educators to defend human
dignity and the right to a decent living for modern humans and to improve the
level of knowledge of our beloved children. The increasing number of women
joining the protest movement of educators is disrupting the balance of power
between the people's desire for justice and the reactionary, predatory and
oppressive rule of the Islamic regime. Activists of the women's liberation
movement are fully defending the legitimate struggles of workers, educators,
nurses and pensioners.
Four decades
have passed since the first widespread attack by the Islamic reaction on
women's rights. The newly arrived rulers, with slogans either openly or
covertly, were pursuing the eternal slavery of women in the Islamic system.
From the very beginning, with the widespread demonstrations of women on the
first of March 8th, the women's liberation movement in Islamic Iran was
launched. The Islamic reaction mobilized its thugs and educated people to
suppress this movement in the streets and in thought. They tried to deface this
day and its ideals into oblivion with the Day of Fatima Zahra and Zaynab. Unaware
that the movement that was started with the determination of socialist women
does not go home with these subversive attempts of the Islamist, but continues
to go on in any possible way and by transferring its experiences and fighting
tradition to the next generations, it carries out the struggle for the
realization of freedom and equality. The oppressed and exploited masses in the
uprisings of 2018 and 2020 and the 2023 movement in the popular uprising
referendum have voted to bury this rotten and fetid system. The widespread
participation of women in this struggle indicates the end of tolerating the
misogynistic and inhumane system and laws of Islamic rule. The spark that was
ignited by the government murder of Mahsa Zina Amini in the rotten cloak of the
misogynistic regime, the expansion of the women's movement for a life of
freedom and egalitarian demands is deeply rooted in society. This movement
targeted the hijab, this symbol of the yoke of women's slavery and the main
pillar of sexual discrimination and humiliation of women, and forced the regime
to retreat in implementing the regime's reactionary hijab and chastity law. We
are witnessing the presence of a generation of freedom-loving and egalitarian
women and men in the scene of the struggle for women's rights, who are fresh
and determined to challenge the ruling, petrified and rotten regime at any
possible place and time.
Today's
reality speaks of the disruption of the balance of social forces. The two
reformist and conservative wings of the ruling bat, which were broken in
January, can no longer be repaired. In this cold winter, the regime's inability
to provide electricity, gas, potatoes, and control inflation under the rule of
the Islamic virus has endangered people's health. The Women's Liberation
Movement, in solidarity with the student movement, the labor movement, the
movement of educators, retirees, nurses, and other oppressed groups, cries out
that we will not settle for anything less than freedom, equality, and a life
worthy of today's human beings.
Consigning the rule of misogynistic
Islam to history is not far away!
Women, Life, Freedom and Equality
Women's Liberation Organization
March 8, 2025