Manda Zand Ervin

Manda Zand Ervin is an Iranian writer, thinker and human rights activist born in the province of Lorestan, Iran. She is a member of the Zand tribe.

Life

Manda held offices in several Iranian Government ministries in Iran prior to the overthrow of the Shah by Ayatollah Khomeini. After the revolution she fled to Europe along with other influential intellectuals. She is currently based in Maryland in the United States where she founded and heads the Alliance of Iranian Women which works with the Iranian women inside Iran, helping them to establish the foundation of a civil society and women’s organizations, and bringing the plight of the women and children of Iran to the attention of the western governments, media and human rights and women’s organizations.[1]

gollark: Maybe. It's hard to judge. If you average across all platforms ever, then probably.
gollark: I fear it.
gollark: The very ominously named "online safety bill" is very ominous and would impose ridiculous compliance requirements on basically everything, as well as allowing the media regulator to block sites which don't comply, as well as in a plausibly-deniable way banning end to end encryption, as well as requiring all web platform things to censor "harmful content".
gollark: The UK is also doing bad things nominally but not really in opposition to technology companies.
gollark: Australis is doing rather bad things seemingly not driven by and not desired by any tech companies.

References
  1. Alliance of Iranian Women Web Site


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