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23 Sep 2007, 3:32 pm
"To the great dismay of the international community, it is a great concern that the rights of women are violated, and no serious attention has been paid in promotion and protection of women's rights in Canada. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 3:06 am
Though women are also serving jail sentences in our frenzy to protect children from sex but hardly anything else that threatens them, the show has thus far dealt only with men. [read post]
15 Sep 2007, 10:53 pm
Thus, classes required for all engaged couples teach women and men that "women should enjoy themselves as much as men" (patience guys, women take longer to be aroused). [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 8:37 am
Both women, dual nationals, had been detained by the Iranian government on charges... [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 7:48 am
There are hundreds of men, and 10 women, awaiting the final punishment in Texas. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 3:09 pm
[JURIST] Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi [advocacy website, in Persian; JURIST news archive] said Monday that she has urged UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website; JURIST news archive] to investigate allegations that the Iranian government has been detaining women's rights activists and charging them with national [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 7:09 pm
And then there's this great report by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart that explains that "It's the Women, Stupid". [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 1:18 am
(Occasional sobering thoughts.)With ambassadors of the United States and Iran set to talk today about "the deteriorating security situation in Iraq" today, the 2d of the face-to-face talks we've applauded, here's the casualty count in the wartorn country: Iraq Body Count reports that as of Sunday, between 67,945 and 74,336 Iraqis, women, children, and men, had died in the conflict -- an increase of 1,138 to 1,216 deaths in the last 3 weeks. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 5:09 pm
Would you meet with leaders of Iran, S. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 10:30 am
Would you meet -- "without precondition" -- with the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, North Korea? [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 9:00 pm
The images do look pretty non-Iran-like to me. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 3:08 am
[JURIST] Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [official website; BBC profile] has warned that women's rights activists should not attempt to reconcile or replace the Sharia [JURIST news archive] with international conventions or western ideals of women's rights, saying Wednesday that the current Islamic jurisprudence may only be altered if new insight is supported by the Qur'an and [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 2:10 am
(Susan Tiefenbrun's paper "The Semiotics of Women's Human Rights in Iran" analyzes the efforts of Ebadi and others.) [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 4:13 am
The U.S. is allied with Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and China in applying the death penalty as a punishment for murder.Fortunately, in our collective mind, we know better. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 5:26 am
Will they redefine "sunni" and "shia" to blame Iran for another Al-Qaeda attack on American soil? [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 11:03 am
At about 1:20, Hillary Clinton heats up, talking about diplomacy and Iran. [read post]
29 May 2007, 9:37 am
PART 2 -- THE OREGON COURT OF APPEALS Oregon's Court of Appeals is made up of ten (10) judges, three women and seven men. [read post]
22 May 2007, 3:23 pm
Iran's first female-only Internet cafe has opened near Tehran aimed at creating an "appropriate atmosphere" for young women, according to a semi-official Iranian news agency. [read post]
11 May 2007, 7:20 am
I am one of those who believes, from much evidence, that the Bushies (Cheney especially), know exactly what they are doing: keeping Iraq divided and in chaos so our troops have to remain to secure the oil and threaten Iran from our permanent bases; and gut the minority sections of New Orleans. [read post]
11 May 2007, 3:37 am
Of all knownexecutions that took place in 2006, 91 percent were carried out in sixcountries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the United States.Over half the world's countries have abolished the death penalty in law orin practice.In the United States, the death penalty is used mainly in the formerslave-holding states of the old Confederacy. [read post]
