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19 Aug 2009, 5:12 pm
… Women die every minute from poor maternal health care. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 9:22 am
She has been increasingly involved with Iranian youth and women, bringing attention to many of their unjust convictions and treatments in detainment. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 3:03 am
Lisa's pre-academia career included service as a consultant to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, as a legal assistant at the Iran-U.S. [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 1:37 am
The Global Day of Action [official website] was organized by United for Iran, a coalition made up of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Nobel Women's [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 12:07 pm
She founded Zanan-e Iran (Women of Iran), the first website dedicated to the work of Iranian women’s rights activists and has written extensively about Iranian women and their legal rights. [read post]
3 Jul 2009, 4:00 am
Her current art aims to convey a more nuanced image of Iranian women than that presented in the mainstream media, and at the same time to critique the sexism prevalent in popular portrayals of women both Iran and the United States.As she narrates in more detail in this interactive version of her painting "The Fall" (left), Negar's art grapples with the "way that the culture she love[s is] 'degraded, demonized and reduced to a cartoon' both… [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 8:37 am
"Women deal with emotion, trauma and other events differently than men do. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 2:13 pm
Of all the players in what has become Iran’s bloodiest uprising in 30 years, few have captured the world’s attention like the Iranian women have. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 10:25 am
The security forces were “”beating women madly” and “killing people like hell,” the source said. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 10:02 am
I would urge those who really want to see important social issues in Iran critically examined should check out some of the great films made in Iran such as “A Time for Drunken Horses” which deals with poverty among Iran’s Kurdish minority, “The Day I Became a Woman” and “As Simple As That” about the frustrations experienced by women in Iran, and “Santoori” which deals with drug addiction. [read post]
21 Jun 2009, 3:02 am
So I'm wondering to what extent the media may be considered to interfere, and to what extent the events in Iran are a result of media and the power of modern commication technology.I'm wondering this because here in Paris, I have met Iranian women who contradict the image we outside Iran have all been given of what it's like on the inside. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 10:47 pm
The men and women of Iran who are risking their lives, and dying, in the streets of Tehran for democracy deserve our prayers and support. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 4:49 pm
Mass protests in Iran, violent backlashes against protesters, restrictions on media coverage, and the widespread use of new media in resistance and to tell the story, continued today. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 3:32 pm
More than 80 men, women and children were burned alive in this house. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 4:46 am
" Along with Galloway, other peace activists and progressives who have been barred entry into Canada include: Reza Alijani (an award winning Iranian journalist with Reporters Without Borders) and; Shadi Sadr (a women's activist in Iran) were denied entry into Canada in early May, 2009; and Ann Wright (retired U.S. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 2:59 am
Zetkin had fought for the economic and political independence of women workers and women in general. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 9:12 pm
Forget that in America, Madam is an appellation of respect used toward women. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 9:25 am
They also attacked the women's dormitory next door. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 1:16 pm
Soccer has long been the sport of choice in Iran by both men and women. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 11:39 am
Why is this happening in Iran? [read post]
