Bahara Alavi
| Bahara Alavi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | بەهارە عەلەوی |
| Born | 1989 Saqqez, Iran |
| 💀Died | April 11, 2010 (aged 21) Sanandaj, IranApril 11, 2010 (aged 21) |
| Resting place | Saqqez |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Iranian Kurdistan |
| 💼 Occupation | Human rights activist and Women rights defender |
| Twitter= | |
Bahara Alavi (1989-2011) was an Iranian human rights activist, women's rights defender and blogger (writer).[1]. She was born in 1989 in the city of Saqqez, in eastern Kurdistan Rojhalat. She was a member of the campaign to collect One Million Signatures to amend Iran's laws in favoring women's rights and died in a car accident in early 2011.[2][3][4][5]
Biography and Activities[edit]
Bahareh Alavi started writing as a teenager in 2005 and at the age of 16, at the same time as she began to defend women rights, she began writing her blog, The Daughter of the Sun.[6] She was under pressure from Iranian security agencies for her writings.[7]
One of her companions, Kaveh Kermanshahi, who won the Hellman/Hammett award from Human Rights Watch, presented it to Bahareh in an interview with Radio Zamaneh.[8]
She died in a car accident on 27 April 2011.[9].
Her death provoked wide reactions among the human and women's rights activists, several articles about her life and activities were published in various media.[10][11] for instance: "The human rights community has truly lost a shining star, but as Change for Equality reminds us, Ms Alavi. will be “Missed, but not Forgotten.” Below is a touching piece by Change for Equality detailing the exemplary life of Ms. Alavi ..."[12]
Fred Petrossian from Spain In response to Bahareh's death, wrote she was the author of the Sun Girls blog one of iranian activists.[13]
Rezvan Moghaddam graduated from the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin wrote:
Many bloggers courageously broke redline in their writing especially when expressing their own experiences. One example is Khorshid Khanoom (Lady Sun), the weblog by Bahareh Alavi, a member of the “One Million Signatures” campaign. Her posts were simple, honest, and frank. She was not too ashamed to write about her sexual needs. At the same time, she was challenging the patriarchy and discriminatory laws against women.[14]
Letter to the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council[edit]
She was one of the women rights activists who wrote a letter to the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council warning about Iran's membership in the organization in 2010. The letter states that:"We, a group of gender-equality activists, believe that for the sake of women’s rights globally, an empty seat for the Asia group on CSW is much preferable to Iran’s membership. We are writing to alert you to the highly negative ramifications of Iran’s membership in this international body."[15]
Amnesty International[edit]
In an Exhibition and seminar in Trinity College Dublin in 2011, Amnesty International while showing the biography posters and descriptions of the humanitarian activities of women rights activists in Iran including Bahara Alavi wrote: "Women in Iran are often portrayed as victims - helplessly unable to stand up and claim their own rights. The truth, however, is that Iranian women are at the very heart of the human rights movement, and are some of the most courageous and effective human rights campaigners in Iran".[16]
According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch thousands of iranian women have especially in recent decades protested against women's rights laws and called for them to be changed, and their goal is women's rights. In this country, many women's right defenders like Shirin Ebadi have had to choose between voluntary exile or staying in the country and being imprisoned.[17][18]
References[edit]
- ↑ At night, when you close your eyes, think of a woman who never sleeps, Bahareh Alavi, Amnesty International UK, 2010
- ↑ Bahareh Alavi, activist of the One Million Signatures Campaign, Iran Today, 26 April 2011
- ↑ Keep Iran's Heart Beating, slideshare.net, 2016
- ↑ Keeping Iran's Heart Beating- Stories of Women's Rights Activists, 2011
- ↑ پروین اردلان: جای یک رسانه بدون مرز خالیست, DW.De, 2010
- ↑ The Daughter of the Sun, Bahara Alavi Web blog
- ↑ Alavi, sunset of the sun girl, Iran global, 28 April 2011
- ↑ Kaveh Kermanshahi presented his award to Bahara, We Women Website, 2001
- ↑ A lament for Bahareh Alavi who went with Bahar, Asr No, 27 April 2011
- ↑ Commemoration of Bahareh Alavi, Iranian Women's Association, 5 May 2011
- ↑ Bahare Alavi, Missed but Not Forgotten, We-Change.org, 2011
- ↑ Bahare Alavi, Missed but Not Forgotten, united4iran, 2011
- ↑ Iran: Activist and blogger died in a car accident, Fred Peterson, GlobalVoices, 2011
- ↑ Struggle for Equality From the Constitutional Revolution to Cyberfeminism with a Focus on the Role of New Media in the Women’s Movement in Iran, Freie Universität Berlin, 2012
- ↑ Letter by Women’s Rights Activists to Members of the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council, Center for Human Rights in Iran, 2010
- ↑ Keeping Iran's Heart Beating- Stories of Women's Rights Activists, Amnesty International, 2011
- ↑ Iran 2020, Amnesty International Official Website
- ↑ Iran, Human Right Watch
External links[edit]
- 8th anniversary of 1MillionSignatures campaign for equal women rights in Iran; the Tweets by people who lived it, medium.com, 2014
- Endangered Scholars Worldwide, Matt Congdon, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Vol. 79, No. 4, 2012
- Bahare Alavi the daughter of sun, the feminist school in persian
- Let's Write about the daughter of sun, Youtube
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