Support Iranian Women's Demonstration on June 12 to Demand an End to Legal Discrimination

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We have received information from colleagues in Iran of a demonstration they plan to hold next Monday, June 12, 2006 to demand an end to legal discrimination against women. They are seeking support for changes to the civil and penal laws as follows:

• Banning polygamy;
• Reversal of men's uncontested right to divorce;
• Equal child custody rights for mothers and fathers;
• Equal rights in marriage (such as a woman's right to choose where she works, to travel freely, etc.);
• Increase in the legal age of children to 18 years of age (currently girls are viewed as adults at 9 years of age and boys at 15 years of age, making them eligible to be tried as adults);
• Equal value placed on women's testimony in court; and
• Elimination of temporary work contracts which disproportionately and negatively impact women.

Please join us in supporting Iranian women and their ongoing struggle to gain equal rights.

ACTION:

Sign on at:  http://herlandmag.com/news/06,06,07,12,33,14/

Best regards,
Women's Learning Partnership
http://www.learningpartnership.org/