Mona Silavi fromAhwazi women organisation "Napiraso" speaks at 10th UN Forum on #MinorityIssues

click here and watch the speech of Mona Silavi fromAhwazi women organisation "Napiraso" speaks at 10th UN Forum on #MinorityIssues 1 Dec 2017
As I understand this Forum is intended to be a dialogue, so I will put my speech aside and I would say do not get surprised if we minorities get nervous if we do not get our 2 minutes. Most of minorities here which work as NGOs are denied ECOSOC status, so only once a year for 2 minutes we have the chance to speak.
For this reason we get nervous if we do not get our 2 minutes.
We get nervous if we can not talk within the subject that have been chosen for this forum, because it is hard for me to know there is a young Ahwazi waiting for execution while Iam sitting here and talking about social media.
It is hard Believe me it is hard. I am happy that Iranian delegation is here , I would like them to take note of this name Yousef son of Abbas silavi , my father, victim of enforced disappearance since 2009 .

He was lost and last seen in my homeland of Ahwaz. It makes wonder, Iran a country with more than 12 parallel security service bodies, why can not they provide us with any information about one Arab citizen that went missing years ago.

If my father is not kidnaped due to political motivation then why my mother is denied a passport to leave the country? I hope that they can give me some answers because my mother keeps on searching relentlessly and authorities inside Iran do not give her any information.

So please excuse us minorities if we get nervous if we want our 2 minutes. We are denied the ECOSOC, so we can not enter UN to speak out loud about our problems.

For the first time minorities from all around the world gathered to make their own United Nations (UNPO) Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation which has more than 40 minority members and even this NGO is denied the ECOSOC.
We minorities have been working together since 1991 when UN had not yet recognised the right of minorities. This forum started its work only 10 years ago in 2007.
So excuse us if we talk politics! Please let me use my 2 minute to express my opinion freely.

Let me tell the Iranian delegation that I can provide them with detailed reports of Ahwazi Arab students that can not study because there are no schools in their villages despite the fact that there are huge oil wells in the backyard of their houses, and they have to deal with the oil spill that destroys their farms and kills their animals and poisons their water.

I do not believe the claim that Iran does not have enough resources to combat these issues. According to UN reports, Iranian government spent up to 15 billion$ a year for the past 6 years in order to keep Bashar Assad in power .
These resources are the right of Iranian people that should be spend in development and respect the right of every citizens.

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Last Updated: 04 December 2017

DSPA's representative speaks at the 10th UN Forum on Minority Issues

Speech by Mr.Qusay Doraghi the representative of the Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz (DSPA):
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Ahwazi Arabs in Iran are faced with discrimination in the Iranian civil service.According to the university of ahwaz less than 1% high administrative positions granted to ahwazi arabs in the province! This means that almost 70% of the populations of Ahwaz region (the Arabs) held back of the key and important governmental positions due to their ethnicity. With inadequate political representation, the Ahwazi Arabs are unable to address the injustices faced by their people in the economic, cultural, political and judicial sphere.
Indigenous Ahwazi Arab students drop out of schools at a rate of 30% at elementary level, 50% at secondary and 70% at high school because they are forced to study the “official language”, Farsi, a language which is not their’s
Ahwazi-Arab people have been subjected to a forcible population transfer program. In the past 15 years 1.2 million Ahwazis have been forcefully displaced into central provinces whilst 1.5 million non-Indigenous Persians were relocated into government-funded resettlement towns such as Ramin, 1, 2, 3, and Shirin-Shahr in Arab cities in Ahwaz region.
More than 6,000 hectares of my tribes - Ahwazi farmland north of Shush which has been taken to “resettle the faithful non-indigenous Persians”, according to directives by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Revolutionary Corp Command.
Ahwazis cannot realize their economics, social and cultural rights unless the Iranian state respects Ahwazi arab minority collective rights and allow us internal autonomy to build our civil society and develop our cultures, languages, histories and economies.
At the end i would say that, We as AHWAZI youth would like to be known as a nation whom concerned about freedom, equality, justice and prosperity for all the people in the world particularly in Iran.

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Last Updated: 04 December 2017