Jaleh Lackner-Gohari

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Jaleh Lackner-Gohari ( Persian ژاله گوهری نائینی, DMG Žāle Gohari nāʾini ; * 1939 in Tabriz ) is an Iranian doctor and women's rights activist .

Life

Jaleh Gohari came to Vienna at the end of 1955 as a 16-year-old high school graduate , where she studied medicine at the University of Vienna . After a short stay at the University of Düsseldorf , she completed her doctorate in Vienna in 1964. She completed training as an internist specializing in infectious immunology at the Medical University Clinics in Vienna and research facilities in London. After her doctorate, she worked as an internist at the University Clinic Vienna, where she also taught until 1979, she held the chair for infectious diseases and chemotherapy at the university.

Her work there was interrupted by various stays abroad, especially in Iran and the USA. Since 1971 she has worked at various medical institutions of the UN , first in New York and later in Vienna ( Vienna Based UN Organizations ). As a civilian doctor she took part in various military missions of the UN and the IAEA , took part as a doctor in peace missions of the UN in Eastern Slavonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and was involved in the construction of a hospital in Vukovar .

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent wave of refugees and emigration, she concentrated on humanitarian work for Iran, the human rights of women in Iran and intercultural mediation .

She worked for various international organizations ( CTBTO , UNMIBH and others) in the field of intercultural communication and gender aspects in multicultural cooperation. She is co-founder of GIF (Society of Independent Iranian Women in Austria), co-initiator of "Women without Borders", European Vice President of InnerCHANGE WORKS & InnerCHANGE Associates International. In 2006 she founded the intercultural forum “The Iranian Vienna”.

Prizes and awards

  • 2012 MIA Award, Category "Humanitarian & Social Commitment"

Publications

Jaleh Lackner-Gohari published a series of articles on the situation of women in the new Iranian civil society.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lackner-Gohari, Jaleh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian medic and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz , Iran