Solidarity with…Iranian women

Show your solidarity with Iranian women who are demanding equity and equal protection under the law.

In Iran, women face striking legal and economic inequities. Even if a woman’s husband beats her, beats their children, or is addicted to drugs, she has virtually no custody rights to their children upon divorce — the father automatically gets custody of a boy over the age of two and a girl older than seven. A divorced woman receives no financial support from her husband.

Under current Iranian law, women also receive unequal treatment in the right to inherit property (although this right is specifically granted in the Quran) and the ability to seek prosecution for rape. Iranian women may be subjugated to death by stoning as punishment for adultery.

Last June, Iranian women launched a grassroots movement to right these inequities, demanding changes be made to Iran’s constitution. This movement includes the “One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws” petition. We invite you to participate in this unprecedented international campaign and add your name to those that have poured in from around the world. Let the women of Iran know that we stand with them in their struggle to be treated as fully human.

Visit (copy paste it) http://www.we4change.com/spip.php?article19 to sign the petition.