Iran Protection Act or the family?
two years ago that Iran and its parliament are talking about the Bill on the Protection of the Family (DdlPF), which in turn work with women religious conservatives and reformists, and secular ones.
The Sixth Parliament (2000-2004, reformist) Iran had asked for a bill to limit parental authority, to ensure equal rights in of inheritance for men and women, to enable the maternal transmission of citizenship to their children, make changes to the wedding dowry (Mahr), entrusted to the mother custody of the children according to the principle of good (maslahat) of mother and son and then considering the minimum age of the child, facilitate the procedures of the request for divorce from the woman and other measures to raise the status of women within the family.
The bill has been called to the Center of Women's Participation, which in turn has involved scholars and theologians in Qom University Mofidi adapt to the changes required to the precepts of Islam. The sixth parliament, however, failed to complete the work on time.
With the election of Mahmud Ahmadinejad in 2005, and the tightening of the relationship between conservative politicians in power and civil society, women become, once again, the main object of the icon of the new president moralizing.
The Cultural Commission of the seventh parliament (2004-2008), August 26, 2007, a different approves draft law on Protection of the Family (DdlPF) without considering the requirement to raise the status of the wife within the family, and since then there have been protests over changes that DdlPF that the political and social activists consider a draft bill against the family. "
L ' Ayatollah Yusef Sane, authoritative voice of religious reform, issued a fatwa in respect of Article 23 and considered "an act of haram and unfair to the man who decides to take a second wife without the permission of the first" .
Rafat Bayat, a member of parliament VII (2004-2008), explains that the DdlPF is against the thinking of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, and seeks to destroy the foundations of the family.
Behruzi Maryam, head of the Society Zeynab "(a non- government and conservative), in a letter to parliament, considers dangerous DdlPF.
the Women's Commission "Islamic Iran Participation Front, the 'Order of the defenders of human rights", and the' neo-Association of Muslim intellectuals, organized table discussion entitled "No to DdlPF ".
Over a hundred lawyers, in a letter, asking the parliament to put out the government program DdlPF.
Faezeh Hashemi, a member of parliament V, daughter of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in an interview with one of sites of the "One Million Signatures Campaign ," expresses his protest: "How come a woman can become a lawyer and minister, while the family is considered inferior and the second sex?"
Dr. Nahid Tavassoli , responsible chief of the literary magazine Nafeh in an interview with one of the sites of the "One Million Signatures Campaign" which explains the DdlPF was created in a male uses only the reasons of man.
This is because, in the Judiciary Committee as the Cultural Commission of the parliament, the lack of female figures. She expressed her disappointment at the absence the spirit of Justice ("Edalat) DdlPF in Islam.
The protest is general, and parliament was forced to make changes to certain articles , exactly at 23, which abolished the need for the permission of his first wife to marry a second husband, and Article 25, which provided for a fee, the bridal dowry, due to his wife at the time of marriage. The
May 24, 2010, the Commission proposes the new Justice DdlPF divided into six chapters containing 59 items (the latter contains eleven articles of the law precedents that will lose its validity if the DdLPF be signed into law).
continue the protests during this second round of discussion on DdLPF. The activists, Islamic and secular, continue to organize events and seminars in this regard, inviting experts and deputies.
groups are particularly active:
One Million Signatures Campaign http://www.we-change.org/ ;
feministschool.com /
Focus on Iranian Women
The site offers legal information on marriage, the notary responsible for the registration of marriage;
The network of Iranian women which provides news on the political situation women's social
For more information, please visit the site DdLPF www.fairfamilylaw.info
Information- The debate begins when the LPF in 1967 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the "last Shah of" Iran), as a sign of modernization of the country, decided to take legal measures to restrict male power to "inner limiting the powers of the family of her husband to" inside of marriage.
Under this Act, "the husband, to have a second wife, and needed permission of the Court (or Family Court) of the consent of first wife: a rule which would restrict polygamy. In order to avoid the easy divorce from their husbands, the "Law" included the decision of the court, so even for the care of children should be asked of this court that it would decide in the "interest of the child.
Two weeks after assuming power, the "Ayatollah Khomeini, as a sign of the success of the Islamic religion and tradition on" modernizing ideology of the Pahlavi, abolishes the LPF and thereby remove the limitations on polygamy, unilateral divorce for the re- "Man, suppresses the care of children with divorced women, lowers the" minimum age of marriage for girls in the first 13 and then 9 years down the "prohibition of the wife to leave the home or to travel without the "consent of her husband, establishing the" duty of submission to the will of her husband, Tamkin, the woman who refuses to sottomettervisi nâshezeh is guilty of and liable to the penalties laid down by Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
L "ban also applies to the profession of court because, according to Islamic tradition, the weakness of women prevents them from controlling your own emotions and express an opinion accordingly invalid.
With regard to religious services, because of "impurities resulting from the menstrual cycle, women can not lead the Friday prayer, issue fatwas or become mujtahid or a faqih. Some measures
abolished the LPF were re-enacted during the early years of the revolution thanks to "the same commitment in the government and Muslim women during the reform period (1997-2005), under the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, are taken other measures designed to raise the status of the wife and to protect women "within the family.
