Mehrangiz Kar

Mehrangiz Kar
Mehrangiz Kar

Mehrangiz Kar (b. 1944; Ahvaz, Iran) (Persian: مهرانگیز کار) is a prominent Iranian lawyer, human right activist and author.

Mehrangiz Kar is one of the most celebrated activists in the history of women movement in Iran which dates back to almost one century ago.

Mehangiz Kar was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and in the 2005/06 academic year was based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1]

She has also been recognized as a Scholar at Risk through an international network of universities and colleges working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide.

In 2002, the U.S. First Lady, Laura Bush, gave her the National Endowment for Democracy's Democracy award.[2]

She is the widow of Siamak Pourzand, a fellow Iranian dissident and former prisoner of conscience[3] who committed suicide on 29 April 2011, after a long period of torture and imprisonment.[4]

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Awards and honours

  • 2004 Recipient of the annual Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee For Human Rights) Human Rights Award
  • 2002 Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize (France) for a lawyer working to promote women’s human rights, awarded jointly by the Human Rights Institute of the Bar of Bordeaux and the European Lawyers Union.
  • 2002 Democracy Award of the National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.), for advancing human rights and democracy.
  • 2002 Hellman/Hammett Grant from Human Rights Watch (International) for a writer who is a target of political persecution.
  • 2001 Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award of PEN New England (Massachusetts, U.S.), for a writer who has struggled in the face of oppression and brutality to make her voice heard.
  • 2000 PEN/NOVIB Award of PEN Clube (Netherlands), for writers who have lost their liberty for political and ideological reasons.
  • 2000 Donna Dell’anno Award of the Conseil De Lavallee Consiglio Regionale Della Valle D’aosta (Italy), for persevering in the fight for freedom and the defense of women’s rights.
  • 2000 Latifeh Yarshater Award of the Society for Iranian Studies (U.S.), for the best book on Iranian women.
  • 1975 Forough Faroukhzad Award (Iran), for best article.

See also

References

  1. ^ Past Carr Center Fellows, Retrieved on 11 March 2011.
  2. ^ Publications
  3. ^ "Siamak Pourzand: a case study of flagrant human rights violations". Amnesty International. May 2004. http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=914A399538BBCECA80256E90005266C5&lang=e. Retrieved 6 May 2011. 
  4. ^ Eli Lake (1 May 2011). "Longtime Iranian dissident kills self ‘to prove his disgust for regime’". Washington Times. http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=914A399538BBCECA80256E90005266C5&lang=e. Retrieved 6 May 2011. 

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