WFRC public relations reported that on the verge of birthday anniversary of Hadhrat Zahra (S) the faculty member of WFRC, Mrs. Alasvand, visited Indonesia in response to the invitation by Hasanuddin University in Makassar and participated in the scientific conference on “woman, society, and international policy”. The conference was held by the Institute of Human Rights Support with the participation of deputy-Mayer of Makassar, the president of the University of Sawerigading, as well as the professors and the students of the university.
Explaining the Islamic Republic of Iran’s achievements related to the women inspired by Fatemi culture she told: we should know that the international organizations are always seeking to impose their standards on other states and nations in order to evaluate the amount of their women’s developments. Therefore, it is the values of the powerful countries in international institutes that are transferred into other countries, but not vice versa. Hadhrat Ali (A.S) states in Nahj al-Balagha (The Peak of Eloquence) that the polytheists always evaluate you based on their own measures; while such behaviors of international institutes are seriously criticized, for example the quantity of the standards of development of the international organizations and societies, ignoring the quality standards of women’s life, etc.
Explaining the situation of women after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s revolution, she clarified that concurrent with strengthening of family institution as the central part of development plan, the Islamic republic of Iran has considered improving of cultural, social, economic, and political situation of women and girls in its national legislation and policy-making. All the governments are also attempting continuously to take long-term perspectives and plans on women’s issue.
The faculty member of WFRC added that although the development standards of the UN entail the aforesaid shortcomings, the Iranian women and girls have made considerable developments in education, research, science, entrepreneurship, occupation, and health areas based on the same standards. In spite of the hard unprecedented unilateral sanctions against our country, the human development index of Iranian women has improved continuously and the Iranian women keep moving toward the predetermined goals.
Referring to a number of achievements she told that trying to eradicate women and girls, illiteracy and increasing the rate of their literacy, increasing the rate of the girls, higher education as compared to that of boys, improving the women’s life expectancy, and lowering the death of women in pregnancy and childbirth are a number of positive incidences after the Islamic revolution.