January 24, 2006
Report on “White Carnations
Festival” in commemoration of Fadima Shahindale and the conference on
globalization of political Islam and its relation to honour killing
White Carnations
Festival has been initiated by
Parvin Kaboly for the past four years to commemorate Fadima Shahindale a victim
of honour killing in
Fadima was a well –known
figure in
The aim of this Festival is
to mobilize women’s movement against the back ward culture and to challenge
government in
The theme of this year
festival was banning Religious schools and prohibiting veils on children under
the age of 16. This year festival
started on January 16, 2006 in Gutenberg and lasted a week.
On January 19, 2006, the conference on globalization of political Islam
and its relation to honour killing which was part of this festival was held in
the famous museum in Gutenberg. At the place of conference Photo gallery and
information on women and children’s rights was available in several languages.
at press conference Homa Arjomand
was interviewed by GP Gotebors Posten Newspaper, Sverigos radio, City
local paper and SVT Rapport Swedish National Television.
Speakers at the Gutenberg
conference were: Parvin Kaboly coordinator of the International Campaign
in Defence of Women’s Rights in Iran Homa Arjomand the coordinator of
the International Campaign against Sharia Court in Canada and chair person of
children first Now, Ziyar Adami editorial of Gringo Newspaper.
The representatives of
following organizations attended panel discussion. Left party, social Christian
party, Green party, Feminism creation and White Carnations Festival.
On Saturday January 21,06 similar
conference was held in
The speakers talked about the suppressive nature of
Political Islam in women and Children’s lives with special focus on honour
killings. There was a heated debate from the floor regarding the role of
religion and culture in violence against women. The conference welcomed a
resolution which was read out.
A panel discussion was held in the afternoon and following people
participated in this panel. Afsaneh Vahdat social worker and
journalist, Arhe Hamedanca in charge of honour killing research. Ida
Lindqvist journalist, Inger
Stark from left party, Amine kakavand and kimia Pazoki coordinator of
IFIR in
Resolution:
1- Banning of religious schools.
2- Banning of the veil for under
aged girls.
3- Stop financial help to religious
organizations and movements.
4- Financial and moral support of
secular organizations and those defending women’s rights and children’s rights.
5- Providing appropriate
facilities to help girls and women who flee their homes. Financial and moral
support should be provided.
6- Defending the international
movement against gender apartheid.
Homa
Arjomand’s interview with GP Goteborg
http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=113&a=253850
National television in
http://svt.se/svt/road/Classic/shared/mediacenter/index.jsp?d=30929&a=342601