The Iranian Women's Bill of Rights
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
presents
A Persian-language symposium onThe Iranian Women’s Bill of Rightsنشست لایحه حقوقی زنان ایرانپیشنهاد همبود فمینیستی ایران برای ژن، ژیان، آزادی
SpeakersMohamad Tavakoli: Professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of TorontoMahdieh Golru: Feminist, human rights activist, and graduate of Evin UniversityHoma Hoodfar: Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, University of ConcordiaMehrangiz Kar: Attorney, writer, and a women’s rights and human rights advocateMona Tajali: Associate Professor of IR & WGSS, Chair, Political Science Department, Director, Human Rights Program, Agnes Scott CollegeRezvan Moghadam: Independent scholar, human rights activist and founder of several Iranian women’s organizations and campaigns for gender equalityNayereh Tohidi: Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department, the Founding Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at California State University Haifa Asadi: Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice ActivistAzadeh Momeni PhD: Political scientist, Carleton UniversityFatemeh Shams: Professor of Persian Literature, University of PennsylvaniaGhizall Harress: A visiting scholar at University of Toronto, served as Afghanistan’s first presidential constitutional ombudspersonStakeholder CommentaryElaheh Amani: Peacemaker and mediator; works closely with Mediators Beyond Borders Dr. Fariba Bashiri: President, The Iranian Women’s Organization of Ontario (IWOO)Dr. Frangis Ghaderi: Lecturer in Gender and Kurdish Studies, and Joint Director of the Center for Kurdish Studies, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of ExeterSarah Eskandari: PhD student, University of Pennsylvania, women and human rights activist, Co-founder of “PhillyIran”, council member of Confederation of Association of Iranian StudentsComments invited from the audience
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