‘I do not struggle for power,’ says Iranian feminist activist Parvin Ardalan. ‘I struggle to push the power.’
Ardalan co-founded the One Million Signatures campaign, launched in 2006 to gather the names of a million Iranians who demand that men and women be equal under law. Signatures were supposed to have been handed over to the Iranian Parliament with a request to change discriminatory laws. However, not wishing to legitimize the current regime, the campaigners are considering giving the signatures to the UN or a human rights organization once the campaign is finished.
