The International Committee against Stoning is a network of individuals and organisations against stoning. The Committee has been established by Mina Ahadi, a member of WPI's Political Bureau, to step up the fight against stoning decrees and abolish the practice of stoning. The Committee is calling upon well-known personalities and individuals and women's and human rights organisations to join the Committee and intervene to end this practice of Islamic barbarity. The following individuals and organisations have joined the Committee:

Azar Majedi, Editor of Medusa and a well-known activist in the women's movement; Gonter Walraf, the renown German writer and researcher; Nasrin Amirsedqi, Director of f. Kultur & Migration e.V DIA, Germany; Siavash Modaresi , Editor of Pusheh Magazine, Germany; Basir Nasiby, critic, film director and editor of Cinema in Exile magazine; Parvin Kaboli, activist in women's movement and co-ordinator of International Campaign in Defence of Women's Rights in Iran - Sweden; Frauen, feminist organisation for education, guidance and culture ( Frauen Hetz), Austria; Azam Kamguyan, writer and activist in women's movement; Nahid Riyazi, activist and co-ordinator of International Campaign in Defence of Women's Rights in Iran - Denmark; Kayza Alferdson, university lecturer- Sweden; Nadia Mahmood, Chair of Centre for Middle Eastern Women's Studies, UK; Mahin Alipoor, women's rights activist, Sweden; Parvin Moazi, co-ordinator of International Campaign in Defence of Women's Rights in Iran - Germany; Lars Gonar Welimo, Swedish journalist - Brussels; Maryam Namazie, Executive Director of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees, UK; Reza Kamangar, activist, Finland; Sylvia Akar, Foundation of African and Asian Studies, Finland; Siw Handroos, Kelekiay The Organisation of Finnish and Kurds; Ville Koumei, former MP in Finland and a member of the Finnish and Kurd organisation; Parvanah Ilkhanizadeh, Centre of International Cultures, Finland; Shahla Rahtasm, member of Iraqi Women's Organisation, Finland; Ala Faraj, Iraqi Women's Campaign, Finland; Soraya Shahabi, women's activist and Director of Children First Organisation; Maryam Kousha, Chair of the International Campaign in Defence of Women's Rights in Iran; Halale Rafea, women's rights activist, Sweden; Sara Mohammad, Campaign for Women in Iraq; Soheila Farhang, Assistant Editor of Medusa, UK; Hildegard Mauerhofer, Rener Cultural Institute, Austria; Rosa Logar, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Austria; Goundi Diek, activist and former editor of a magazine called Women Solidarity, Austria; Hedi Poya, women's rights activist, Germany; Rent Mowbray, Warn from F.P.K, Sweden; Terre des Femmes, Germany; Rita Thalman, Professor; France; Shiva Mahbobi, women's rights activist, Canada; Bahram Modaresi, Young Communists Organisation , Berlin; Mehrnoush Mosawi, International Federation of Iranian Refugees, Germany; Anderea Westman, women's rights activist, Sweden; Marrianne Faghberg, women's rights activist from the Social Democratic Party, Sweden.

To join the Committee, please contact Mina Ahadi, minaahadi@aol.com
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