BBC World Service / By Nikki Jecks / Listen
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has announced he intends to appoint Iran’s first women cabinet ministers since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Mahnaz Afkhami was one of the last two women to take part in an Iranian government before the revolution.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
NPR Weekend Edition / By Jacki Lyden and Davar Iran Ardalan / Listen
One of the most remarkable and under-reported stories in Iran is the strength and character of its women’s movement. Through politics, literature, religion and poetry, women’s voices have at times been like roars, and at others, like whispers of dissent. Women continue to be both targets of persecution and agents of change, and for more than a decade, NPR’s Davar Ardalan and Jacki Lyden have been tracking those changes. It began in 1995 when Jacki went to Iran at a time when not many female reporters had been there.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
United Nations Radio / By Bissera Kostova and Sandra Guy / Listen
Mahnaz Afkhami speaks on the condition of women in Iran in the wake of a UN report on human rights in the country. While much progress has been made in education, still a number of family laws and criminal laws discriminate against women. The One Million Signatures Campaign is an effort to peacefully negotiate for change.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
United Nations Radio / By Bissera Kostova / Listen
A UN report on human rights in Iran says the country has made progress in improving health and education for women, but still has discriminatory laws against them. Mahnaz Afkhami says the Iranian government is not justified in defending discrimination of women and practices amounting to torture as being part of Islamic law.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Washington Monthly on the Radio / By Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis / Listen
Mahnaz Afkhami speaks of the conflict between Iran’s sophisticated civil society and a medieval set of laws, which has imposed the segregation of women (gender apartheid so to speak) in public spaces. She also mentions the possibilities offered by technology in communicating with and supporting the women’s movement in Iran.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
International Museum of Women “Women, Politics and Power” Exhibit / By Masum Momaya / Listen
Ms. Afkhami speaks about the women’s movement in Iran, fundamentalisms, international movement building, and concepts of leadership.
Saturday, September 9, 2006
NPR “All Things Considered” / By Jacki Lyden / Listen
Delegates from developing countries, many from Islamic nations, met in Washington, DC to compare notes on the struggle to advance women’s rights. “Any sort of progress toward modernism, toward what we consider egalitarian societies, involves the basic structure of the family,” Afkhami says. “All the arguments for backwardness and fundamentalism really focuses on women.”
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars “Dialogue Radio” / By George Liston Seay / Listen
To affect change, women must take charge of their own destiny. They must reclaim the tenets of their faith. They must also be willing to challenge deeply rooted traditions.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University / Listen
Autonomous grassroots organizations in different Muslim-majority countries have partnered to create a Guide to Family Law in the Maghreb. They are also campaigning for more egalitarian family laws in their societies.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
VOA News / Listen
An organization headquartered in Washington is dedicated to strengthening women’s leadership, communications, and advocacy skills. Its president describes the ways that women are being helped to contribute to democracy and peace building in their nations.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009