Two men, one of them an Afghan citizen, were executed in Isfahan
Two men were hanged in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, reported the Iranian daily Ettelaat. The men were identified as “Siah Khan Sh.” convicted of carrying 56 kilograms of opium, and “Mohammad N.” for distributing 159,5 kilograms of crack and 860 grams of heroin. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Tip on [...]
Down with SCAF (VIDEO)
Activists like Ahmad Hafez, Medo Iskandar, Al-Jazeera journalist Dima el-Khatib,Lilian Wagdy, Gigi Ibrahim, Medo Iskandar are each leading the chants against the military abuses, as dozens of protesters gathered outside the Military Court today, in solidarity with journalist Rasha Azab and her editor Adel Hammouda, who’ve been summoned by the military prosecutor over Rasha’s reporting of torture [...]
Grief
An old woman was shouting hysterically in front of the military court, where her son was being interrogated, before she fainted. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Military Court on Sunday, in solidarity with journalist Rasha Azab and her editor Adel Hammouda, who’ve been summoned by the military prosecutor over Rasha’s reporting of torture and [...]
Multiple forms of discrimination experienced by indigenous women from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) within the nationalist framework
This paper was presented at a consultation with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Ms. Rashida Manjoo. The consultation was arranged by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and Women’s Aid Organization (WAO) in Kuala Lumpur in January, 2011. Introduction To understand the discrimination faced by indigenous women [...]
Fighting sexual harassment head-on
Sometimes a comment from a perfect stranger can have a profound effect on a person’s life. When I was about 13 years old one such comment was made over the phone to my parents. The caller was anonymous and told my father that if I continued to wear ‘western’ clothes in public I would be [...]
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