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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Recent conferences highlight growing efforts to include women in the struggle to end brutal conflicts.
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An Iranian woman now living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan, was once a leader in a terrorist group based in Iraq trying to overthrow the Tehran government, federal authorities said in court documents on Monday.
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Two announcements today appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Iran marked the 28th anniversary of its revolution on Sunday seeking to show unity over its nuclear policy, but Western pressure and cautious voices at home dampened prospects for a major statement on atomic progress.
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A UN committee is calling for women in Saudi Arabia to be given basic freedoms.
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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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TEHRAN -- Emad Baghi is a human rights activist who spent three years in prison for his writings. Shadi Vatanparast is a promoter of underground Iranian rock bands who, in the semi-privacy of her office, throws off her government-mandated headscarf. And Fazel Mehbadi is a mullah who preaches a message that's dangerously dissident in the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran: ...
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Iran's authorities arrest more than 25 women protesting against alleged discrimination in the capital, Tehran.
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TEHRAN -- Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said yesterday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and 10 lashes.
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Iran's legislative watchdog said on  Saturday women could run in June's presidential election,  clearing up an ambiguous article of the constitution.
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Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey's secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer's elections.
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Sayeed Habibi considers himself a marked man. The reason: his Internet blog that challenges some of the policies of Iran's theocracy.
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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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Iran has not yet responded to a Western proposal over its nuclear program because of deep differences within its regime about what to say.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.