{"id":21565,"date":"2021-03-22T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=21565"},"modified":"2021-03-22T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:55:59","slug":"baroness-verma-urges-support-for-female-activists-leading-a-push-for-change-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2021\/03\/baroness-verma-urges-support-for-female-activists-leading-a-push-for-change-in-iran\/21565\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroness Verma Urges Support for Female Activists Leading a Push for Change in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Baroness Verma, former UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development addressed an online panel<\/a> supporting women\u2019s rights in Iran to mark International Women\u2019s Day on March 8, 2021.
A panel of 30 Members of Parliament and women\u2019s rights activists from the UK and Europe urged their governments to put human rights at the forefront of Iran policy during an online conference sponsored by the British Committee for Iran Freedom on International Women\u2019s Day, March 8, 2021.
The cross-party speakers called on the UK and EU governments to work together to put pressure on the regime to release all political prisoners<\/a>, prisoners of conscience, protesters, and dual citizens held under arbitrary charges in Iran, especially the women. Speakers urged the UK and EU to make economic and political relations and agreements with the regime in Tehran contingent upon verifiable improvements in human rights and women\u2019s rights. They stressed that Iran stands on the brink of change as the regime has no solutions to any of the economic and social crises facing it and that growing popular dissent in the country rejects the theocracy in its entirety and demands regime change.
The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>), Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, was the keynote speaker at the conference speaking alongside the panelists including several former ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baroness Verma, former UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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