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Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, also spelled Haghighatjou and Haqiqatju ((ペルシア語:فاطمه حقیقتجو)) (born 29 December 1968/8 Dey 1347) is a reformist and a former member of the Iranian Parliament. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Ph.D., an expert in Iran’s internal affairs and a leading advocate for civil, democratic society in Iran, one that grants freedom of speech and human rights, including women's rights, academic freedom, and a free press, was a member of Iran’s reformist Majlis (parliament) from 2000 to 2004. After a losing struggle for reform in the parliament, her resignation was accepted as the first of several members on February 23, 2004. Before entering politics, Haghighatjoo was a psychologist and head of the Student Psychological Consultant Center of Iran University of Science and Technology.〔(Iran University of Science & Technology - IUST Home )〕 She has held professorships at Tehran University 〔(University of Tehran )〕 and Shahid Beheshti University,〔(History - Shahid Beheshti University )〕 formerly known as the National University of Iran. She has authored a book entitled ''Search for Truth'' (published in Persian in 2002). In 2005, Dr. Haghighatjoo completed her Ph.D. in Counseling from Tarbiat Moallem University 〔(Tarbiat Moallem University - Tarbiat Moallem Portal )〕 in Tehran, Iran. Almost immediately after being awarded her Ph.D., Haghighatjoo left Iran for the United States with her husband, a journalist, and their daughter. They arrived in Boston in September 2005. She was honored as a Young Global Leader in 2005 by the World Economic Forum.〔(World Economic Forum )〕 Shortly after arriving in the United States, Haghighatjoo became a fellow at MIT’s Center for International Studies.〔(MIT CIS: Spotlight Archive )〕 The following year, she was a fellow at Harvard University's Women and Public Policy Program.〔()〕 While at MIT and Harvard, Haghighatjoo worked on a revision of Iran's constitution. She continues this effort while also working in Iran's reform movement. After that, she taught women’s studies courses at The University of Connecticut 〔(University of Connecticut )〕 at Storrs during the academic year of 2007-2008. One of them was called Women in Iran; the other was called Gender in Global Perspective. In 2008, Haghighatjoo became a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy, located at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.〔(John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies ... )〕 She is currently working on an initiative called Women's Leadership in a Global Perspective,〔(DigiCert® UC Certificates - Unlimited Servers No Extra Cost )〕 which includes a week-long training program in Boston. In addition, Dr. Haghighatjoo is currently a part-time faculty member at UMass Boston, where she teaches a course called Women in Global Perspective for the Women’s Studies program. In 2010, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo became a co-founding chair of the Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy, Inc. (NID).〔(NIDemocracy | Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy )〕 Currently, Dr. Haghighatjoo works on defining “state feminism” in Iran, which is the institutionalization of women’s issues there, to how it both promotes and limits women’s position there. She has published a book chapter and several papers on the Iranian women’s movement. She is also working on a book manuscript, a memoir of her life and career, entitled ''A Voice for Truth''. Dr. Haghighatjoo has been extensively interviewed and quoted by the international media, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Christian Science Monitor'', ''USA Today'', ''BBC Persian TV and Radio'', ''Voice of America'', ''CNN'', and others. Since arriving in the United States, she has given numerous talks regarding efforts at forming a civil society in her native Iran, as well as women’s rights and internal politics in Iran. ==See also== *Iranian women 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fatemeh Haghighatjoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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