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History

This collection is dedicated to the history of democracy and pro-democracy movements in Iran. Historical truth and collective memory are the first victims of totalitarian regimes. With no memory, people grow morally and intellectually dependent on their rulers. No wonder, therefore that freedom of the press was the first target of the nascent Islamic Republic. The History collection aims at archiving different documents that bear witness to the failures and successes of pro-democracy movements in Iran since the mid-19th century. By making these documents available to the young generation in particular, the library wishes to evoke forgotten figures and moments of pro-democracy struggle in the midst of revolutionary torment. This endeavor is a small contribution to the efforts of a generation to restore Iran's collective memory badly damaged by fifty years of dictatorship and twenty-five years of a violent totalitarian regime.

» Iran Pro-Democracy Movement 1880-1925

Documents in this collection: 5

» Iran Pro-Democracy Movement 1941-1965

» The Revolutionary Era

Documents in this collection: 10
Newest document added: July 5, 2008

» Pro-Democracy Opposition 1979-today

Documents in this collection: 3
Newest document added: July 5, 2008

Currently no documents in this section of the library.


 
 

Library collections

» Iran's Pro-democracy Voices

· Current Articles and Newswires

· Recent Pro-Democracy Movement Communiqués

» Human Rights Instruments

· On the Philosophical and Historical Origins of Human Rights Instruments

· International Bill of Human Rights

· Human Rights Defenders

· Prevention of Discrimination

· Rights of women

· Human rights in the administration of justice

» Human Rights Debate

· Death Penalty

· Cultural Relativism

· Women's Rights

· Religious , Ethnic and other Minorities

· International Justice

· Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

» International Human Rights Organizations' Reports on Human Rights Abuses in Iran

· Amnesty International /Reports on Iran

· Human Rights Watch

· International Commission of Jurists

· United Nations

· Reporters Without Borders

· International Federation of Human Rights

· Others

» National Human Rights Organizations' Reports on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran

· LDDH

· Others

· Iranian Human Rights Activists Groups in EU and North America

» The Islamic Republic against Human Rights

· Books and Articles

· IR Laws

· IR Judiciary

· IR Rationale against Human Rights

» Cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment in the Islamic Republic of Iran

» Official Documents

» Testimonies of Victims of Human Rights Abuses in Iran

· Victims and Witnesses

· Islamic Republic Officials

· Prison Memoirs

» The Idea of Democracy

· Religion and Politics

· Representative Regime

» History

· Iran Pro-Democracy Movement 1880-1925

· Iran Pro-Democracy Movement 1941-1965

· The Revolutionary Era

· Pro-Democracy Opposition 1979-today

» Iran in Perspective


 

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