Mehrangiz Dolatshahi

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Mehrangiz Dolatshahi (also Mehrangis Dolatschahi , born on December 13, 1919 in Isfahan ; died on October 11, 2008 in Paris ) was an Iranian politician and social activist.

Life

She was the eldest daughter of Mohammad Ali Mirza Meshkout Al Dowleh and his wife Akhtar ol-Mulk . Her family was among reasons of parentage of Prince Mohammad Ali Mirza Dolatshah for until 1925 ruling Qajar dynasty ( Schahzadi Mihranghiz Khanum was her name as born princess) and owned large estates in Kermanshah . Her cousin Esmat Dolatshahi became the fourth wife of Reza Shah Pahlavi .

She studied in Germany at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg , where she earned a doctorate in social and political sciences.

In 1946 she started working on social projects in Iran. She founded the organization Rah-e No (New Way), which offered reading courses and training events for women and represented their rights. After the introduction of women's suffrage in 1963 it was for the province of Kermanshah to the Majlis elected, where they continue campaigned in three terms of women's rights, such as the Family Protection Act. This gave women the right to divorce and introduced the obligation for men to obtain the permission of the first wife before a second marriage.

From 1973 to 1976 Mehrangiz Dolatshahi was the successor to Mary McGeachy President of the International Women's Council , followed by Prem Purachatra .

Sent to Denmark as an ambassador in 1976, she left the embassy in the face of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and went into exile in Paris . It was not until 2015 that there was Marsieh Afcham in Malaysia as the second ambassador in Iranian history. Dolatshahi wrote a book in 2002 on society, politics and the women's movement in Iran; she died in 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Family tree of the Qajars on royalark.net (en.)
  2. ↑ CIA : Centers of Power in Iran (1972) Digitized (en.)
  3. ↑ The Age: Sex equality still elusive: feminist , November 6, 1973. Digitized version (en.)
  4. ↑ Obituary in The Iranian ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (en.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / iranian.com
  5. ↑ Die Welt , October 29, 2015: Better not to take risks with first ambassador since 1979
personal data
SURNAME Dolatshahi, Mehrangiz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dowlatshahi, Mehrangiz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician and social activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Isfahan
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2008
Place of death Paris