{"id":2847,"date":"2019-11-01T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/minoo-jalali-chair"},"modified":"2019-11-01T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T12:19:00","slug":"minoo-jalali-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/minoo-jalali-chair","title":{"rendered":"Minoo Jalali (Chair)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minoo Jalali was a practising lawyer, and an executive member of the largest Iranian women organisation formed in the aftermath of the Revolution in 1979.\u00a0 She campaigned against the violation of human, and specially, women\u2019s rights. As a result, she was unlawfully banned from practice and had to leave Iran in 1983.<br \/>\nIn Britain she first worked with the Citizen Rights Office in Edinburgh.\u00a0 She also together with other women activists helped to set up the first Asian women refuge in Edinburgh.<br \/>\nIn 1987, she joined Avon and Bristol Law Centre in Bristol where she helped in setting up its immigration team, representing clients and campaigning on asylum and immigration rights issues.\u00a0 She was a founding member of the Refugee Women\u2019s Legal Group which was formed in 1996. Its aim was development of a gendered perspective on refugee law and practice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nMinoo was on board of trustees of Refugee Action for the period 1994 to 2016, and has been&#038;n&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minoo Jalali was a practising lawyer, and an executive member of the largest Iranian women organisation formed in the aftermath of the Revolution in 1979.\u00a0 She campaigned against the violation of human, and specially, women\u2019s rights. As a result, she was unlawfully banned from practice and had to leave Iran in 1983. In Britain she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}