One Million Signatures Campaign

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The One Million Signatures Campaign is a grassroots Iranian women’s rights initiative launched in 2006 to collect signatures demanding the reform of discriminatory laws against women in Iran.

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instanceOf Iranian social movement
grassroots movement
women's rights campaign
alsoKnownAs Campaign for Equality
Change for Equality Campaign
awardReceived Olof Palme Prize
Simone de Beauvoir Prize
surface form: Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom
country Iran
focus elimination of legal discrimination against women
gender equality
women's legal rights
goal collect one million signatures in support of legal reform
reform discriminatory laws against women in Iran
hasEffect increased public awareness of women's legal discrimination in Iran
mobilization of Iranian women's rights networks
hasPart Change for Equality website
inception 2006
language Persian
legalIssue child custody law in Iran
criminal law discrimination against women in Iran
divorce law in Iran
family law in Iran
inheritance law in Iran
polygamy law in Iran
location Iran
method door-to-door signature collection
online organizing
petition campaign
public education
movement Iranian women's movement
opposedBy judicial branch of Iran
surface form: Iranian judiciary

Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
surface form: Iranian security forces
opposes child marriage
gender-based legal discrimination
polygamy
unequal inheritance rights
unequal marriage laws
organizer Iranian women's rights activists
participant Delaram Ali
Nasrin Sotoudeh
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
Parvin Ardalan
Sussan Tahmasebi
startDate August 2006
subjectOf UN human rights documents
reports by Amnesty International
reports by Human Rights Watch
uses petitions
street outreach
workshops

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Simone de Beauvoir Prize notableLaureate One Million Signatures Campaign