Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran hangs woman for murdering love rival

AFP: Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a love rival, her lawyer told the official IRNA news agency. ...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Ahmadinejad urges girls to marry at 16

AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged young girls to marry at age of 16 in his latest rejection of the country's once effective family...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran woman with stoning sentence shown on state TV

AP: Iranian state television has broadcast a purported statement by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in which she calls...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran arrests three women lawyers: reports

AFP: Iranian authorities have arrested three female lawyers at an airport in Tehran after they arrived on a flight from Turkey, media reported on...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran fails to get seat on UN Women board

AFP: Iran failed in an election on Wednesday to secure a seat on the executive board of the new UN super agency to improve...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Nordic countries make joint appeal over Iran execution

AFP: Five Nordic countries issued a joint appeal to Iran Thursday, calling on the Islamic republic to commute the sentence against a woman condemned...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian’s stoning would be ‘barbarous’: Brazil’s new leader

AFP: Brazil's female president-elect, Dilma Rousseff, said Wednesday she was "totally opposed" to the death-by-stoning sentence ordered for an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani. ...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Canada first lady urges Iran to free woman condemned to die

AFP: Canada's First Lady Maureen Harper on Wednesday condemned Iran's "senseless and continual" disregard for women's rights and called for the release of a...
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Iran: No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign Marks 133rd Week

Reports indicate that on Tuesday, August 11, the No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign entered its 133rd week, with thousands...
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British Couple Imprisoned in Iran End Hunger Strike After Nearly Three Months

The family of Lindsay and Craig Foreman, a British couple imprisoned in Iran, announced that the two had ended...
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