.: UICS - Azar Majedi :.

:: Azar Majedi ::

Back to school without our
Dear Friends
September 23, 2009

Tree Planting
July 31, 2009

Nova Scotia Government
& General Employees Union
(NSGEU) supports the recent
Iranian movement
July 9, 2009

The anniversary of 18th Tir movement
July 9, 2009

The memory of those who
gave their lives for freedom!
June 26, 2009

Azar Majedi is born in Iran, she has finished her university education abroad and returned to Iran at the time of the revolution against the monarchy in 1978. She became active both politically and in defence of women’s rights while a university student.

Since 1978 she has devoted her life to fighting against the dictatorial regimes in Iran, first the monarchy and then Islamic Republic, fighting for freedom and equality, fighting for women’s rights. She was active in all the demonstrations to oppose the restrictions the Islamic Republic was imposing on women. She organised an 8 March celebration in 1979.She wrote and translated articles and pamphlets in defence of women’s rights.
In 1982 when the Islamic Republic had begun brutal attacks against all the left and opposition groups, torturing and killing thousands, she and her husband were forced to escape from the security forces, and left for Kurdistan. Azar continued her activities, working in a clandestine left Radio as a producer-broadcaster, working as a member of editorial board of a left journal.
She is a member of Worker-communism Unity Party and a member of coordination committee of European Feminist Initiative. Publications: Book called Women's Rights vs Political Islam another one under publication: Iran: a Female Revolution, a monumental blow to Islam. Also articles in various international journals and websites and in different languages.
Azar Majedi was our guest on January 31, 2010.
You can listen to Radio Payam’s interview with Azar Majedi here.
And all other our guests Interviews from HERE.
You may find more information about her from: http://www.azarmajedi.com/.

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