Shirin Ebadi Echoes Demand of One Million Voices Campaign

Nov. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- UN Women, the new United Nations agency specifically created to promote the cause of women globally could  choose a representative of the Iranian regime as one of the 41 members of its board of directors.  This is an outrage to the women who are imprisoned, tortured and executed in Iran, as well as to women throughout the world who are forced to endure gender inequality.  Worse, the UN is doing nothing to stop Iran's crimes against women and against all its citizens. What's necessary is diplomatic (not economic) sanctions against individuals within the Iranian government who are directly responsible for these human rights crimes. These sanctions include travel bans and the freezing of assets, as demanded by the Million Voices for Iran campaign: http://www.speak4iran.org

In fact, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi echoed that same demand at the UN on Tuesday 9 November 2010, as reported by Betwa Sharma on AoL News:  "Ebadi, who is Iranian herself, called for steps such as travel bans and freezing assets of those leaders and officials who were involved in human rights abuses. She noted that eight Iranian officials had recently been barred from entering the United States.

Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wants the international community to impose travel restrictions and other "political sanctions" against Iranian officials who have taken part in human rights abuses.
"We ask other countries to adopt the same kind of political sanctions against Iran. ... Let's make the world smaller for violators of human rights," she told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York."

We call upon the United Nations, world leaders and human rights defenders everywhere to join the One Million Voices for Iran campaign to demand Iran’s full compliance with the Geneva Conventions and international laws and the release of all prisoners of conscience, and that countries impose diplomatic sanctions against individual members of the Iranian leadership until these conditions are met.

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The One Million Voices for Iran is combining "digital activism" through social media platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, and blogs, with "pavement activism" at rallies, protests and events, to create a network of supportive individuals and organizations in the pursuit of its goals.