By David Lowe on November 9, 2009
Iran’s fraudulent presidential election last summer has spawned ongoing street protests and mass demonstrations, as students, women, human rights activists, workers, and many others have mobilized to challenge the corrupt clerical and political establishment that rules the country. Radio Farda reported last week that on November 2nd, ten members of the One Million Signatures Campaign [read full story]
Posted in Featured, Guest Post, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Regions | Tagged iran, Iranian democrats, One Million Signatures Campaign |
By Michael Allen on August 3, 2009
Renewed protests erupted today as Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as president for a new four-year term, temporarily papering over the cracks revealed in recent factional fights. With a mass trial of opposition figures underway and uncompromisingly strident rhetoric, the regime is taking a notably harder stance towards the reformist [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Democracy assistance, Elections, Iran, Islam/politics, Labour/labor unions, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Soft power, democracy promotion, dissidents, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Iran's green revolution, Mansoor Osanlou, National Endowment for Democracy, Office for the Consolidation of Unity, One Million Signatures Campaign |
By Michael Allen on July 20, 2009
The World Movement for Democracy reports:
On July 17, Shadi Sadr, a lawyer and prominent women’s rights activist working with the One Million Signatures Campaign, was arrested by undercover security officers and taken to an undisclosed location. The men pulled her into a car as she walked along a busy road and beat her as she [read full story]
Posted in Iran, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, Women, authoritarianism, dissidents, protests | Tagged One Million Signatures Campaign, Shadi Sadr, Women’s Learning Partnership, World Movement for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on June 23, 2009
It may seem like stating the obvious, but Anne Applebaum makes the point that mass movements are rarely, if ever, purely spontaneous upsurges but rather reflect the undramatic, tedious, and incremental work of activists and organizations generally working below the media’s radar.
She highlights the One Million Signatures Campaign’s online petition for equal rights within [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Human rights, Iran, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism, dissidents, promoting democracy | Tagged Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, democracy activists, democratic movements, Iranian civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, One Million Signatures Campaign, Roya and Ladan Boroumand |
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