In cooperation with the High Council of Human Rights of the Judiciary, the Tehran General and Revolutionary Court Prosecutor’s Office, the General Justice Department of Tehran, Charitable Institute for the Protection of Social Victims and UNA-Iran, the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence held the Women’s Rights in the Judicial Justice Process 2-day international conference.

Jurists, lawyers, judges and prosecutors from Pakistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Sudan, Australia, Italy, and Switzerland attended the conference and took part in the panels that were held, presenting their presentations on specific women’s legal and social issues and also activities and achievements from their countries.

Among the over 300 participants of the conference were dignitaries from foreign missions, and representatives from UN Agencies in Iran. These included, dignitaries from the Australian, Austrian, British, French, Danish, Russian, Brazilian, Switzerland, Italian, Belgian, Libyan, Egyptian, and Mexican Embassies, and UNODC, UNIC, UNHCR and UNFPA.

The objectives of this conference included: the promotion of women’s capacities; judicial protection and support for women; and the presentation of practical solutions for furthering access to justice; and also the exchange and transfer of international accomplishments and achievements in the judicial justice process for the realisation of women’s rights.

There were ten roundtables that were held in the two days. On the first day the topics included: women’s rights in the judicial justice process; women’s role in the judicial justice mechanism; review of legal capacities in relation to women’s rights; interaction of executive and judicial institutions in women’s access to judicial justice; and the role of courts in women’s access to justice.

The second day’s subjects included: women’s role in the judicial justice process; of women’s role from Islamic jurisprudence perspective; human rights – women’s rights; criminal justice protection for women’s rights; the role of the media and NGOs in improvement of judicial justice.

During the closing ceremony the chairman of the 2-day event roundtables, Dr. Mohammad Reza Zandi, the education deputy of Tehran Province Justice Department read the conference final statement

The event was received very positively, especially with its extensive coverage by Iranian news agencies and media.