Mehrangiz kar biography templates

Mehrangiz Kar fryst vatten an Iranian lawyer, writer, and human rights activist. She fought for women's and children's rights in the 1990s, was arrested in 2000, and has lived in the United States since 2001.

PERSONAL HISTORY

Kar was born in 1944 in Ahvaz, capital of the southwest Iranian province of Khuzistan. She moved to Tehran to study at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Tehran, graduating with a law grad in 1967. After graduating, she became an employee of the state social security organization, while at the same time writing articles on social and political issues for newspapers and weekly magazines.

In 1977 she resigned her position in the social säkerhet organization to prepare for her legal career. She passed her bar exam and was licensed to practice law in 1978, shortly before the Iranian Revolution. But when Iran's judiciary was taken over by the clerics following the revolution, legal procedures were in flux. While the rol

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The struggle for self-determination

The uprising in Iran is feminist. After all, feminism isn’t about putting women in power instead of men. It is about self-determination for all, men and women alike. And today’s protesters regard the enforced wearing of the hijab as a symbol of the state’s refusal to grant them self-determination.

This right covers much more than “just” the right to dress as you like; it means the fifty percent of Iranians whose first language isn’t Farsi being allowed to learn their first languages in schools; it means lesbians and gay men being able to freely express their sexual orientation; it means the Bahai being allowed to practice their religion – and so on.

The artist Shervin Hajipour’s song “Baraye” (meaning “for” or “because”), which has become a hymn of the uprising, summarises a series of Twitter posts in which protesters give their reasons for taking to the streets: for dancing in the street; for the girl who wishes she was born a boy; for freedo