Maryam Namazie: How should the UK respond to the women's revolution in Iran?
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CLH and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain invite you to this online talk and discussion on the human rights situation in Iran highlighted in recent weeks by the death of Mahsa Amini.
How should we in the UK understand and respond to the needs of women in Iran relating to freedom of expression and belief? Join us as well to explore how the revolutionary being received in Tehran, as well as in other more conservative regions of Iran, and why humanists in particular should support solidarity campaigns led by Iranian activists there, and around the globe.
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Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born writer and activist. She is the Spokesperson of One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
She hosts a weekly television programme broadcast in Iran on Saturday evenings in Persian and English called Bread and Roses.
She is on the International Advisory Board of the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom and Euromind; a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism, National Secular Society Honorary Associate; Honorary Associate of Rationalist International; Emeritus Member of the Secular Humanist League of Brazil and a Patron of Pink Triangle Trust.
Maryam and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain were featured in a 2016 film by Deeyah Khan called Islam’s Non-Believers. She was also a character in DV8 Physical Theatre’s Can We Talk About This?, which deals with freedom of speech, censorship and Islam.
She was joint winner of the 2019 Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize; awarded the 2017 Henry H. Zumach Freedom From Religious Fundamentalism award; 2016 International Secularism (Laicite) Prize from the Comité Laïcité République and was honoured by the National Secular Society for her campaigning work defending free speech at universities (2016) despite attempts at barring her by Student Unions or Islamic Society efforts to intimidate and cancel her talks.
She was also awarded Atheist of the Year by Kazimierz Lyszczynski (2014); Journalist of the Year at the Dods Women in Public Life Awards (2013); selected one of the top 45 women of the year by Elle magazine Quebec (2007); one of 2006’s most intriguing people by DNA, awarded the National Secular Society’s Secularist of the Year Award (2005); selected ‘Iranian of the Year’ by Iranian.com readers (1997 and 1998); International Rescue Committee medal recipient (1988); and received the Julia B. Friedman Humanitarian Award (1987).
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Date: Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Timings: 6.00pm Zoom meeting open, 6:30pm start, 8.30pm finish
Venue: Online talk & networking (link visible to attendees)
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