Delegation of NCRI Women's Committee Partakes in International Federation of Women Lawyers
NCRI - Invited by Maria Elena Elverin, president of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, a delegation from NCRI Women’s Committee participated in an international conference held by the organization.
Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the 4-day conference was participated by prominent women lawyers from North America, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
Messages of solidarity by prominent women from across the world were also read in the conference, among whom were Hillary Clinton, US Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party, Bandana Rana, UN-elected woman of the year 2016, and Ingrid Betancourt, former Colombian Presidential candidate.
Also Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi sent a message to the international conference in Buenos Aires.
The delegation from NCRI Women’s Committee in the conference tried to enlighten the audience as to the campaign seeking justice for the martyrs of the 1988 massacre.
In her speech, member of NCRI Women’s Committee Elaheh Arjmandi explained the institutionalized repression against women by Mullahs’ misogynist regime and outlined details regarding the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners. She then answered the questions asked by the audience in this regard. The lawyers in the meeting described the 1988 massacre as a shame on the justice system in the modern world and stressed on the necessity to put on trial the Iranian regime’s leaders as the perpetrators and instigators of this crime against humanity.
The conference came to a close on its fourth day with speeches by Maria Fabiana Tones, chair of the Argentine’s Parliament Women’s Committee, as well as Dr. Mariana Elena Elverin.
In their trip to Buenos Aires, the NCRI Women’s Committee members also met with Ms. Estela Barnes De Carlotta, President of the Association of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (an organization seeking to identify those martyred or abducted during Argentine’s military dictatorship).
The representatives of NCRI Women’s Committee in the meeting lauded Ms. Barnes De Carlotta’s 39 years of efforts to put on trial those responsible for the crimes perpetrated during Argentine’s Colonel Dictatorship.
The representatives of NCRI Women’s Committee in the meeting lauded Ms. Barnes De Carlotta’s 39 years of efforts to put on trial those responsible for the crimes perpetrated during Argentine’s Colonel Dictatorship.
Expressing her pleasure over meeting NCRI Women’s Committee, Ms. Estella Barnes De Carlotta also declared her support for the campaign seeking justice for the martyrs of the 1988 massacre.
