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ODVV held a sitting with representatives
from GOs and NGOs. At the start of the
sittingtheUNSecretaryGeneral’smessage
for the day was read by the representative
from UNIC in Tehran. It must be said that
the this year’s UN slogan for the day was
“My Voice Counts”
3 - International Day of Peace
On Wednesday 21 September the
ODVV held the “Fair Peace, Lasting
Peace” seminar in commemoration of the
International Day of Peace. This seminar
was held with the cooperation of ICRC,
Red Crescent and UNIC in Tehran,
Victims of Chemical Weapons Support
Association and UNA Iran.
The participants included university
science groups’ members and 40
representatives from governmental and
nongovernmental organizations.
The ceremony the reading of UN
Secretary General’s message for the
participants were introduced to the “role
of international law in international peace
andsecurity”, the“positionofinternational
crimes in international peace”, “peace and
justice in Persian culture and literature”,
“determination of the status of peace and
justice from Islamic jurisprudence”, and
“rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem and
the fair peace paradigm”.
4 - International Day of Families
The Systemic Family Therapy
technical sitting was held by the ODVV
in May 2014 on the occasion of the
International Day of Families. Twenty
psychotherapists and family counsellors
participated in this sitting. The sitting
commenced with the reading of the UN
Secretary General’s message for the day
by Maria Dotensko the UNIC in Iran
Resident Coordinator.
In this workshop the Iranian couples
and families relationships and the
presentation of suitable models for
family therapy were reviewed.At the end
of the workshop, with the presentation
of a therapy model for counselors,
psychologists and social workers active
in the field of the family, systemic family
therapy model based on interaction
between members of Iranian families
was presented.
- Holding International Sittings
1 - Sitting on the Sidelines of the 16th
Session of the HRC on Islamophobia
and Human Rights
Islamophobia and Human Rights:
This first panel was held on 13 March
in which approximately 90 people
participated. The sitting which was
chaired byDr.Alireza Deihim, had guest
speaker Dr. Amir Saeed, lecturer from
Sunderland University who spoke about
the media and its role in the promotion
of Islamophobia, Dr. Mohammad Javad
Javid lecturer from Tehran University
who spoke about Islamophobia and
the right to morality in the west and
Dr. Stephan Sheehi from University
of South Carolina who spoke on the
subject of American Islamophobia as a
cultural ideology.