Maryam Behrouzi
| Mariam Behruzi | |
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| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1996 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1945 (aged 66) Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 18 February 2012 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Zeynab Society |
Mariam Behruzi (1945-2012) was an Iranian lawyer and former member of the Iranian Majlis. In 1980, she was one of four women elected to the first Majlis of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where she continued to serve until 1996. She worked to improve women's and family issues, successfully campaigning to have a committee on women's issues created within the Majlis. Behruzi also worked to have more women included in the judiciary, and her efforts resulted both in a reversal of a ban that prohibited women from studying law and a change in public opinion on women in law in Iran.
Behruzi was born in 1945 in Tehran to a prominent clergyman. She completed high school and, despite being married at 15, studied at university. She had a son, who was killed in the Iran–Iraq War.
After beginning university, Behruzi started to provide education on the Qur'an to Iranian women. She participated in the protests against Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi that led up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution in which the Shah and the Pahlavi dynasty were overthrown, and an Islamic Republic was established under Ruhollah Khomeini. Though barred from political activity in 1975, she continued to participate secretly, and was jailed from 1978–1979.
In 1980, Behruzi was among four women elected to the first Majlis of the Islamic Republic. She, along with other women, helped found the Committee of the Family within the Majlis. They met regularly with the civil court judges, where they examined family issues and came up with ways to solve women's issues within the family setting. Behruzi was particularly concerned with improving divorce courts, which she found to focus too little on women and children and specifically to favor fathers in custody issues. She also worked to improve the rights afforded to divorced wives. Behruzi also tried to establish a committee for women's issues, though this did not pass. Behruzi was re-elected to the second Majlis, along with two of the three other women from the first Majlis.
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