Call for Solidarity: Freedom and Gender Equality in Iran

The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation has signed the call for Solidarity a group of Iranian feminists and women’s rights activists has made to demand an end to state-led violence and repression, as well as the immediate release of all political detainees in Iran. They invite all women’s rights defenders, activists, organisations, and networks worldwide to demonstrate their solidarity with the Iranian women’s movement and the broader movement for democracy in Iran by organising initiatives under the slogan “freedom and gender equality in Iran” throughout March 2010.

Iranian women have long demanded freedom and gender equality; they have employed both individual and group strategies, initiated various campaigns, and faced insults, threats, arrests and imprisonment in the process. Many of these women are currently in prison.  Read the call and sign!