Women 🙍🏻♀️ Life ☀️ Freedom ✌🏻
Keep reading please, if you are FOR women's freedom! ✌🏻
🫂💖
Global action in solidarity with Iranian women & girls who are courageously demonstrating peacefully
for
their
fundamental human rights... ✌🏻
For decades, gender inequality and discrimination against women have
been
legally enshrined
in Iran. 😢
Throughout history, Iranian women have participated in national uprisings. In 2022, they are leading
them, taking direct
aim at the regime’s repressive treatment of women and girls, while the Iranian government is
reacting
with lethal force
to attempt to end the protests. People across Iran and around the world—representing different ages,
genders, income
levels, and geographies—are joining or supporting the women- and student-led movement, despite the
government-sponsored
violence in response.
Woman, Life, Freedom
Women, Life, Freedom (Kurdish: Jin, Jiyan, Azadî,ژن، ژیان، ئازادی) or
Woman,
Life, Liberty
is a popular political Kurdish slogan used in both the Kurdish independence and democratic
confederalist
movements.The slogan became a rallying cry during the protests which occurred in Iran as a
response to the
death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini.
The origin of
The origin of the slogan can be traced to the Kurdish freedom movement of the late twentieth
century.
The first time
that the slogan was used was by members of the Kurdish women's movement, a part of the Kurdish
freedom
movement which
was founded on grassroots activism in response to persecution from the governments of Iran, Iraq,
Turkey
and Syria.
It was popularized further by Kurdish figures such as Abdullah Öcalan, in his anti-capitalist and
anti-patriarchal
writings. Since its first use, the slogan has been used by members of Kurdish organisations and
those
outside of the
Kurdish movement. This was the slogan of the Kurdish fighters in breaking the siege of Kobani by the
State of
Iraq and the Levant in Syria.
The slogan was
The slogan was first coined by Kurdish women fighters and then became popular in other protests
around
the globe.
For example, on 25 November 2015 it was used in gatherings held to mark International Day for the
Elimination of
Violence against Women in several European countries.
On September 16, 2022, the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Tehran's religious morality police sent shockwaves through Iran and launched a revolutionary movement, characterized by the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom". The government quickly moved to suppress protests in cities across Iran, arresting more than 20,000 people and killing more than 500 young protesters. The regime subsequently employed facial recognition technology to enforce strict laws on wearing the hijab, resulting in the closure of numerous restaurants, shops, and even pharmacies who served uncovered women.
