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An Unfortunate Accident: Violence in Ahmadinejad’s Iran,
Tehrān :: Iran | 2 days ago
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Women's organizations have actively campaigned against such violence, but analysis of post-election violence must not look at abuse of women in isolation. Instead, it must highlight the way that difference – whether it be political opinion, religion,...
Tags: Iran, human rights, Tehrān, Islam and women, Shirin Ebadi, Politics, Hosein-Ali Montazeri, Social Issues, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Iranian people, Women in Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Mehdi Karroubi, Islam in Iran, Haleh Afshar Baroness Afshar, Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Headlines for November 30, 2009
Tehrān :: Iran | 10 days ago
Credibility The Washington Post reports as many as 9,000 Marines are beginning final preparations to deploy to Afghanistan. The extra Marines will be sent to Afghanistan soon after President Obama outlines his new war strategy on Tuesday during a speech at the U.S.
Tags: U.S. Military Academy, Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks, Iraq, Osama bin Laden, Iran, Indonesian, Muslim, Obama, United States, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tehrān, Islam and women, Shirin Ebadi, Politics, Manuel Zelaya, Barack Obama, Mohamed ElBaradei, Iraq War, Iranian people
Money for Philippine typhoon victims goes missing
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 13 days ago
Credibility Formula One will return to Montreal for at least the next five years, government officials announced Friday. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that Wal-Mart Canada Corp. was within its rights when it shut down a store in Jonquière, Que., that...
Tags: Iran, Shirin Ebadi, Richard Colvin, nobel peace, Wal-Mart Canada Corp., governing adviser, muzzle senior, Supreme Court of Canada, prisoners turned, canada ruled, Afghanistan, Kandahar, Iranian people, Islam and women, Politics, Wal-Mart, Jonquiￃﾨre, Law Crime, Social Issues, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad, Environment, Human rights abuses, Morality, Paul Okalik, Nobel Peace Prize, Iranian Plateau, Crimes against humanity, Criminal law, Afghan Canadian
IRAN STEALS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
In what would be a dastardly first, Norway has accused Iranian authorities of stealing a Nobel Peace Prize. The prize belongs to Iranian national Shirin Ebadi, a human rights lawyer who received the honor in 2003. “The medal and the diploma have...
Tags: Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace, Norway, Oslo, Iran, Tehran, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Authorities, Iranian National, Human Rights, Lawyer, Human Rights Lawyer, Dr. Ebadi, Norway foreign minister, Foreign Minister, Iran Steals, Advocacy, Norway allegations, allnews, Islam and women, Iranian people, Human Interest, Politics, peace prize
Iran denies seizing Nobel medal
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility Norway's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Ebadi's gold Nobel medal and her award diploma had been removed from her bank box and that her bank account, where the prize money was deposited, had been frozen. Ramin Mehmanparast, an Iranian foreign...
Tags: Shirin Ebadi, Iran, Dr. Ebadi, Norway, peace prize, nobel peace, Norwegian, prize medal, nobel medal, Foreign Ministry, Tehrān, Iranian people, Islam and women, Politics, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Nobel Peace Prize, Women's rights in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Social Issues, Adolf Butenandt, 1939, Carl von Ossietzky, Human rights in Iran, Geir Lundestad, Mehdi Karroubi, Gerhard Domagk, Behzad Nabavi, Aung San Suu Kyi, Basij, Nobel Prize
Unimpressed with Obama winning Nobel Peace Prize
Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 month ago
Credibility The last American president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize was President Carter. I certainly pray for hope and change that President Obama does a better job as president than Carter did in his four years. In 1979, President Carter turned his back on...
Tags: Shirin Ebadi, human rights, Barack Obama, Islamic Republic of Iran, nobel peace, Carter, peace prize
Nobel laureate demands democracy for Iran
Seoul :: South Korea | 4 months ago
Credibility Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi called Monday for intensified international pressure to help her country democratise and denounced the crackdown on opposition protesters. "I oppose military and economic sanctions against Iran as they will...
Tags: Iranian, Shirin Ebadi
The Pendulum in Iran: Bombs and Tear Gas
There is only one flaw in the drive from spanking Teheran Airport to the hotel in affluent, tree-lined North Teheran — the visitor gets little sense of the enormous history of this land. It was some thirty years ago that the last Shah was celebrating...
Tags: Iran, Mousavi, Ahmedinejad, Elections, Zahra Rahnavard, Shirin Ebadi, Ayatollah Khameinie, Ayatollah Khomeni
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire detained by US Homeland Security
USA Homeland Security detained Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire earlier this month as she entered the US at a Houston airport. According to information provided by the Free Gaza Movement, Maguire was returning home to Northern Ireland from...
Tags: Homeland Security, Nobel Peace Prize, Mairead Maguire, Free Gaza Movement, Rigoberta Menchu, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Womens Initiatives, Barack Obama
Karroubi stresses need for 'change'
Tehrān :: Iran | 7 months ago
Credibility Karroubi who is currently the chairman of the Etemad-e Melli (National Confidence) party added that he has joined the presidential race to bring about necessary 'change'. "There is a need for change. I think my team and I are capable of this," Karroubi...
Tags: Iranian-American, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr Obama, Shirin Ebadi, Barack Obama, Bahá, presidency mahmoud, Ali Khamenei
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