Jila Kazerounian
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Articles by Jila Kazerounian
August 23, 2009
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
From the Iranian-American Communities and Families of Camp Ashraf Residents:
END THE HUMANITARIAN CASTASTROPHE AGAINST IRANIAN EXILES IN CAMP ASHRAF, IRAQ
Dear Mr. President:
We respectfully ask that your Administration take prompt and decisiv...
June 27, 2009
The images are very powerful. Iranian women, young and old, stand up to the fundamentalist, misogynist dictators of Tehran. No wonder that Neda Agha Soltan, the brave young woman who was brutally murdered by the Basij militia forces, has become the face and the symbol of this uprising. Iranian wom...
July 18, 2008
Jila Kazerounian is the Executive Director of Women´s Forum against Fundamentalism in Iran (WFAFI)
http://www.wfafi.org/
February 05, 2008
The news media report that Iran will be stoning to death two sisters convicted of adultery. The verdicts against the two sisters, Zohreh Kabiri (27) and Azar Kabiri (28) were confirmed by the 23rd branch of the Supreme Court in Iran. The sisters had already been tried and already received 99 lashes ...
June 25, 2007
On Wednesday June 20th, 2007 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution demanding from the United Nations to charge the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on Genocide, as he has called for destruction of Israel. Article 2 of the Convention defines ...
June 09, 2007
June 12 marks the one year anniversary of Iranian women’s rally against the gender apartheid regime ruling their country. Thousands of women took to the streets of Tehran in a protest organized by several women’s groups to oppose the suppression and inequality under the theocratic rulers. They chant...