Second Eastern Women's Congress

Second Eastern Women's Congress, also known as Second General Congress of Oriental Women and Second Oriental Women's Congress was an international women's conference which took place in Tehran in Iran in between 27 November and 2 December 1932.[1] It was the second international conference to unite women's organizations of the Middle East, following the First Eastern Women's Congress.[2]

Life

The conference was arranged with royal support by Iran's leading women's rights organisation Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, under the leadership of Ashraf Pahlavi, with participants from the Arab World and Eastern Asia.[3] Ashraf Pahlavi served as the honorary president of the Congress and Sediqeh Dowlatabadi as its secretary. Šayḵ-al-Molk Owrang of Lebanon served as its President, and Fāṭema Saʿīd Merād of Syria, Ḥonayna Ḵūrīya of Egypt and Mastūra Afšār of Persia belonged to the organization committee.

Representatives from Afghanistan, Australia, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon, Persia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Zanzibar participated in the Congress. The congress discussed the situation of women in their respective countries, and debated issues were the particularly bad situation of women in the Muslim world, specifically the illiteracy and the oppression within marriage of women.[4]

The congress approved of a resolution with 22 subjects, recommending reforms family law, Islamic law, women's suffrage, a ban against polygamy and prostitution and access to education, work and equal salary for women and the eradication of illiteracy among female adults.[5][6]

See also

References
  1. Moghissi, Haideh (2005). Women and Islam : critical concepts in sociology. London New York: Routledge. p. 224. ISBN 9780415324212.
  2. Kristine Gift: Unreliable Allies and Powerful Opponents: The Uphill Battle of Syrian Women Activists during the Interwar Period
  3. Haleh Esfandiari: Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
  4. Hamideh Sedghi, “FEMINIST MOVEMENTS iii. IN THE PAHLAVI PERIOD,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, IX/5, pp. 492-498, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/feminist-movements-iii (accessed on 30 December 2012).
  5. Haleh Esfandiari: Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
  6. Hamideh Sedghi, “FEMINIST MOVEMENTS iii. IN THE PAHLAVI PERIOD,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, IX/5, pp. 492-498, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/feminist-movements-iii (accessed on 30 December 2012).
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