On November 20, 2024, the European Parliament welcomed Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s President-elect, to speak on the process of regime change and transition of power to the people of Iran.
Among dozens of meetings at the European Parliament, Mrs. Rajavi had a meeting with a group of women’s rights activists on the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Mrs. Amparo Fuertes, a women’s rights activist from Spain, also addressed this meeting.
The following are the remarks by Mrs. Amparo Fuertes:
Good afternoon,
Dear president, dear friends.
Thank you very much in the first place for inviting me to participate in such a timely event.
Among the different kinds of violence that exist in different countries at the present time, one of the most repulsive is indeed that done against women.
Violence Against Women: A Measure of a Society’s Moral Quality
And it is one of the most clear signs of the moral quality and civilization of a society or a political and legal system. The implementation of equality between men and women in terms of civil law, education, freedom to decide on their own matters, access to public office of any kind, family, and labor conditions.
Unfortunately, there are still places and political structures on our planet where these rights of women are established neither in the law nor in social habits and traditions.
One of the most heinous examples of such a situation is the Islamic Republic of Iran, where women are considered second-class citizens and are victims of the worst kind of mistreatment by the mullahs’ regime.
Systematic Discrimination Against Iranian Women
A woman in Iran cannot be president of the republic nor judge, and cannot graduate in many scientific, technological, or humanistic areas.
Her inheritance is half that of a man, and she cannot have a job without her husband’s permission. Polygamy and temporary marriage are serious humiliations for women.
It is in this context that one of the outstanding elements of the Ten-Point Plan for the future of Iran proposed by Mrs. Rajavi is equality between men and women in all aspects of social and political life.
This reform would mean a complete change in Iranian society that could then benefit from the extraordinary contribution that women could make to the creation of wealth, standard of living, and moral improvement in the country.
United Nations: Acknowledging the Right to Resist Oppression
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights recognizes explicitly the right of people subject to subjugation, tyranny, or grave abuse, to rise up against the repressors, and so have done the women of the Iranian Resistance.
Many heroic women have fought with their lives and their resistance (against) the totalitarian dictatorship that for 45 years has oppressed them so painfully and unfairly.
Thousands of them have been taken to the gallows or tortured to death for defending their ideals of democracy and freedom for the Iranian people.
To honor their memory, we, women of the free world, must support them in their struggle until their final victory over the medieval, inhuman, and cruel clerical regime that today prevents them from enjoying the life they deserve.
Voices from Evin Prison: A Defiant Stand Against Injustice
Dear Maryam, Dear President,
You can count on us in your unfailing labor to bring justice, freedom, prosperity, and dignity to the people of Iran.
I have recently read that these days, hundreds of sisters in the yards of Evin Prison in Iran shout every day fearless of their oppressors against the execution of Varisha Moradi.
Let me join them with one of their slogans, a very strong one, that says: “Our lives may go, our heads may fall, but freedom will never be lost.”
Stop the execution of Varisha Moradi.
Thank you very much.
