In Iran, some women pursue rights despite pressure
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Nahid Keshavarz says two weeks in an Iranian jail didn't deter her from helping try to collect one million signatures for a petition urging more women's rights and, if anything, prison showed the cause was worth fighting for.
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As the world marked international women's day on Thursday, some women in the small war-battered west African nation of Sierra Leone barely knew about it.
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LISBON, Mar 8 (IPS) - In spite of their conquests in the 20th century,  and  so far in the 21st, women in the European Union (EU) are  still a long way  from achieving equality with men -- a goal  unequivocally laid down in the  Universal Declaration of Human  Rights.
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A gay woman who is facing deportation from Britain to her native Iran has had her removal deferred pending a legal challenge, her supporters told AFP Saturday.
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PARIS Iran reiterated its right to produce fissile uranium for nuclear energy Wednesday, despite urging from the United Nations&#39; nuclear agency that the country suspend such activity.
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A UN committee is calling for women in Saudi Arabia to be given basic freedoms.
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VENICE, Italy  - All Iranian filmmakers  working in their homeland have to face the trials of the  censor, but if the subject matter includes abortion, adultery  and lesbian love, the chances of gaining official approval in  the Islamic republic are all but zero.
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First female leader of a Muslim country in modern times had envisioned a democratic, moderate future
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Shrugging off a deadline, Iran defied the prospect of possible UN Security Council sanctions as it stood firm Sunday in claiming the right to exempt some equipment from a deal freezing uranium enrichment programs that can make
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YABED, West Bank - Dozens of women defied traditional Islamic limits and pressures, running for office and winning in last weekâs West Bank local elections, reflecting a new political awakening in a male-dominated society.
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Recent conferences highlight growing efforts to include women in the struggle to end brutal conflicts.
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IRAN TEHRAN -- Iran's hard-line leadership ruled out allowing women to run for president in June elections, denying reports in the state-run media yesterday that it had decided to allow female candidates for the first time. It was not clear whether the denial meant the Guardian Council was reversing itself or whether the earlier announcement was a mistake.
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Three years after the fall of the Taliban, women remain subject to many legal, religious and cultural restrictions and domestic violence is endemic.
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TEHRAN -- A new movement of passive resistance is quietly sweeping young people in Iran, a response both to the reform movement's failure to introduce political and economic change and conservatives' control over who can run for office, according to Iranian student leaders and political analysts.
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Iran said on Tuesday it did not need U.S. advice about how to deal with Iranian-Americans Tehran has detained and said Washington should focus on its own cases of human rights abuses.
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Most French women still find themselves less than equal in politics and the corporate world.