From Bad to Worse and Beyond…
Massive opposition to “Family Protection Bill”
The Discriminatory Family law in Iran is on the Brink of taking few steps Back!
“ Family Protection Bill “ passed swiftly and quietly in the first round of discussion in the legal and judicial commission of the Iranian parliament in July 2008 almost one year after it was drafted. The opposition to this bill has brought one of the largest coalition being forms to protest a bill in recent years. An inclusive and strikingly diverse group of women activists, feminists, human rights defenders and many secular as well as religious groups including some conservative and fundamentalist women groups are opposing this bill and demanding the government of Ahmadinejad to take action and prevented from being presented to the parliament for the final vote.
