Second Eastern Women's Congress

Second Eastern Women's Congress, also known as Second General Congress of Oriental Women and Second Oriental Women's Congress was an international women's conference which took place in Tehran in Iran in 1932.[1] The conference was arranged by the Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah under the leadership of Ashraf Pahlavi, with participants from the Arab World and Eastern Asia.[2]

It was the second international conference to unite women's organizations of the Middle East, following the First Eastern Women's Congress.[3]

A recommendation of the conference were reforms in family law and the islamic law, women's suffrage and the eradication of illiteracy among female adults.[4]

See also

References
  1. Pernille Arenfeldt, Nawar Al-Hassan Golley:Mapping Arab Women's Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within
  2. Haleh Esfandiari: Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
  3. Kristine Gift: Unreliable Allies and Powerful Opponents: The Uphill Battle of Syrian Women Activists during the Interwar Period
  4. Haleh Esfandiari: Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
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