Women's Rights in Iran according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Shirin Ebadi - CaptiveDaughters.org

Http://captivedaughters.org discusses Human Sex Trafficking Around the World in Iran. Captive Daughters wants to raise awareness of the problem of human sex trafficking that exists throughout the world. Today we are focusing on Iran. In a recent report, the Center for Cooperative Women's Affairs and the Committee for the Defense of Victims of Violence, found that the kidnapping and sex trafficking of women and girls in Iran is skyrocketing. The victims are then trafficked to the UAE, Pakistan, Afghanistan, as well to as Europe and Asian countries. : Earlier this month Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist and prominent human rights activist whose organization participated in the research for this report was arrested and is currently being held on unspecified charges.Narges, along with prominent women's rights leader and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, are supportive of the Green Movement that seeks to remove the president from office and is currently working on the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks to eliminate laws that discriminate against or harm women. Iran has a very poor record when it comes to respecting and defending the rights of women. Just this April, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, once again refused to sign the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women or "CEDAW" saying that women in Iran were treated better than they were anywhere in Europe. Even so Iran was elected to hold a seat on the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, a controversial move that is being protested by women's rights leaders throughout the world.The reality is that women are treated terribly in Iran, death by stoning is still practiced, and women are disrespected by both the government and by religious leaders. A recent report even has a cleric blaming devastating earthquakes on so-called "promiscuous women". The new 2010 Us State Department Trafficking in Persons Report ranks Iran at Tier 3, or the lowest level. They are doing very little to comply with the international standards of preventing and punishing sex trafficking within their country. Iran has a long way to go to improve the quality of life for women in their country, and in the meantime the women's movement there continue to grow and strengthen. For more information on sex trafficking please visit our website: CaptiveDaughters.org.

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