IRAN - Lily Mazahery Responds to Khatami At Harvard University

EXPLAINING KHATAMI'S ETHICS OF TOLERANCE: Leading human rights lawyer and activist, Lily Mazahery, speaks at Harvard University in response to Mohammad Khatemi's speech.

• Mazahery's counter speech to Iran's former President, Khatami, at Harvard University

Stoning Women to Death

Iranian authorities routinely charge women and girls who have been raped with the crime of "adultery" and sentences them to death by public stoning. (Their unpardonable crime is to have been raped.)

• Village Voice Coverage by Nat Hentoff

• Victims of Rape Sentenced to Death by Stoning

Struggle to Defend Women’s Rights

Beyond the headlines on Iran’s nuclear program, millions of Iranian women face daily civil rights abuses and restrictions.

• HAMSA SPEAKERS BUREAU: Middle East Human Rights Activists

A BRAVE NEW WORLD:

HOW TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND NEW MEDIA ARE IMPACTING HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY INITIATIVES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

• Lily Mazahery Moderates Panel at the 2010 World Technology Network Summit in New York City, NY

Social Networks & Societal Revolution: what happened/is happening in Iran?

Moderator: Lily Mazahery, Founder/President, Legal Rights Institute

Panelists include: Reza Sayah, CNN Correspondent, Mark D. Drapeau, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, The Center for Technology and National Security Policy, The National Defense University

• Lily Mazahery at the 2009 World Technology Network Summit

The silent screams of women and girls

Farsi weblogs reveal a reality far different from the official image projected by the Iranian government.

• Text of Speech by Lily Mazahery published in the Jerusalem Post