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11 Jun 2010, 9:00 am
Criminal law and procedure - It was reported on May 22, 2010, that two Iranian women, 31-year-old Marziah Amiri and 28-year-old Maryam Rustam-poor, who had spent 14 months in Evin prison on charges of apostasy and revolt against national security, were... [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 10:15 am
At the Kampala Conference, a demand that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir be held accountable for crimes committed in Darfur, particularly those against women and children, was made by the Nobel Women's Initiative, an Ottawa-based NGO founded in 2006 by 6 Peace Laureates: Jody Williams of the United States, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, Rigoberta Menchú of Guatemala, Irishwomen Betty Williams and Máiread Maguire, and Dr. [read post]
27 May 2010, 8:18 am
In the Middle East and North Africa, there were patterns of governmental intolerance of criticism in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia, and mounting repression in Iran. [read post]
14 May 2010, 5:00 am
I haven’t a clue, though I suspect that, as Tim Cavanaugh noted a few weeks ago, it might have something to do with Iran being nominated to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. [read post]
13 May 2010, 10:20 am
Gang Rapes of a male as a punishment was awarded for crimes like adultery in Rome and Violating the sanctity of Harems in Persia and Iran. [read post]
11 May 2010, 2:30 pm
“Dayareh” (Circle), for which he won the Golden Lion, is a film comprised of interlocked tales about several socially marginalized women struggling through challenging circumstances that reveal the oppression of women. [read post]
11 May 2010, 12:55 pm
" That is enough to say here.If two or three poets add their voices to mine,The people will soon start humming this songTheir hums will uncover the women's fair faces,The women will proudly throw off their vile masksThe people will then have some joy in their lives.But otherwise, what will become of Iran? [read post]
10 May 2010, 6:40 pm
Shadi Sadr is a lawyer from Iran who has successfully had the convictions of several women sentenced to death overturned. [read post]
10 May 2010, 5:23 am
(We knew it was hard to be a woman in Iran.) [read post]
7 May 2010, 12:33 pm
Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Nauru, Palau, Tonga, and the United States. [read post]
MORE PROOF OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ CHARACTER: United Nations Names Iran to Commission on the Status …
30 Apr 2010, 10:54 am
MORE PROOF OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ CHARACTER: United Nations Names Iran to Commission on the Status of Women. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 6:31 am
the United Nations elected IRAN to the body's Commission on the Status of Women. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 6:30 am
"... handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged 'immodest.'"blog advertising blog advertising [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 10:14 am
"Suntanned women to be arrested under Islamic dress code" "Iran has warned suntanned women and girls who looked like "walking mannequins" will be arrested as part of a new drive to enforce the Islamic dress code. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 6:58 am
She returned from Iran in 2004 and has been living in her in laws house. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 8:55 pm
The sluts.See, you didn't know that because you don't have the benefit of Muslim religious scholarship: "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," says Hojoatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Iran's acting national Friday prayer leader.Which would make Sedighi the Iranian equivalent of Pat Robertson. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 10:11 am
It provides in-depth analyses of diverse literary works: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and the movie Hotel Rwanda (both representing terrorism); Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail; two documentary films about women and family law in Iran, Divorce Iranian Style and Two Women; Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (women's human rights and human trafficking in China); Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation (shedding light… [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 1:41 pm
Here are some recent titles from NYU Press: FREEING SPEECH: THE CONSTITUTIONAL WAR OVER NATIONAL SECURITY by John Denvir DEMOCRACY IN MODERN IRAN: ISLAM, CULTURE, AND POLITICAL CHANGE by Ali Mirsepassi THE MEASURE OF INJURY: RACE, GENDER, AND TORT LAW by Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 8:20 am
The blog now plays an important role in disseminating information about women's rights in Iran. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 8:14 am
Ms Saberi insightfully observes that being a guard in a women’s prison is considered a very respectable job for the lower-middle class religious women who work there. [read post]
