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The Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran had an online conference Friday evening, May 13, 2016.
The committee's Elham Zanjani hosted Dr. Ranjana Kumari, director of the Center of Social Research, from India and author of nine books on women's rights especially on violence against women, and Ms. Diana Culi, former Member of Parliament and President of Women's Forum in Albania, writer and journalist with a focus on women.
The panel focused on the plight of women in Iran and women's rights in tomorrow's free Iran as outlined in the ten-point plan of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi. 
The conference initially discussed the early days when the Khomeini regime took power in Iran, stripping women of their rights and imposing the compulsory veil and dress code and excluding them from offices and work places, particularly in the Iranian judiciary. It was also pointed out that Tehran has not signed the CEDAW because it contradicts the country's laws on countless instances and because misogyny is institutionalized in the regime's laws.
Ms. Culi noted at this point that the first thing every dictatorial regime does is to oppress women and there is a long history of such discrimination. So, it was a major achievement for the world in 1995, to come up with the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which is a very important instrument for countries that really want to be democratic. It was in the World Conference in Beijing in 1995 that it was officially declared for the first time that women's rights are human rights.