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Khoda'i Shahrokhi, Fereshteh

Interviewer Mahnaz Afkhami
Place Bethesda, Maryland
Date May 24, 1991
Condition Open
Status Complete
Language Persian
Content
Interviewee Details Womens' Rights Advocate; Director of Social Work at Juvenile Rehabilitation Center; Director General, Ministry of Health.
Abstract Memories of childhood in Baluchestan; curriculum, organization, and trainig of social workers at the Tehran School of Social Work; on the Juvenile Rehabilitation Center; on the organization, mission, programs, curricula, teachers and students at the (Yakhchiabad) School of Social Welfare of the Women's Organization of Iran (WOI); on the Yakhchiabad Welfare Center of WOI--childcare facilities, family planning services, legal advice services, and vocational planning courses; experiences as legal social worker in Iran's family courts; career after the Revolution; as a woman professional in the Islamic Republic; recollections of arrest and interrogation by the "komiteh"; at the Evin Prison; leaving Iran after release from prison; on life in exile; evaluation of the work of WOI.

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