The One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality in Iran has won the RAW in WAR’s third annual Anna Politkovskaya Award.  The grass roots campaign, launched in 2006, aims to collect one million signatures of Iranian nationals to a petition demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iran.

Leila Alikarami, a lawyer and human rights activist, accepted the Anna Politkovskaya Award on behalf of the Campaign, which was presented to her by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mairead Maguire, at a special award ceremony at Kings Place in London.

Fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Shirin Ebadi, was one of the founders of the campaign.  Read Ebadi’s response to the prize in the Guardian, as well as a letter signed by a number of Nobel Laureates for the occasion.

RAW in WAR (Reach All Women in WAR) annually presents the Anna Politkovskaya Award to a woman human rights defender from a conflict zone in the world who, like Anna, stands up for the victims of this conflict, often at great personal risk.

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Iran’s women are not afraid, The Guardian, 6 October 2009.

Women of courage in the face of danger, The Guardian, 7 October 2009.

Watch a VIDEO about this award.

Iranian women’s rights activists win courage award, The Star, 7 October 2009.