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The Iranian female rower who gained the first Olympic berth for Iranian women, attracted billions of global audiences, international media and anti-Iranian lobbies while she carried the Islamic Republic of Iran flag during the opening ceremony of...
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Paloma lives in the basement of a tall, regal-looking building on a smart street in west London. Hers is a spacious studio flat with a neat patio area, just big enough...
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Given the way women have made their mark in various fields, the anxiousness of fair sex to join combat duties would not sound too odd. However, having said that,...
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Sexual harassment of women in the Arab world is, unfortunately, a daily burden they must carry. For the record, by harassment I do not mean cropping or worse but the...
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At the rate rape is gaining prominence in media, I wonder if it should be designated as national/most popular sport (at least among male). Forget ladies even...
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Library. A girl is pretending to search for her lost mobile phone, in a sensuous way. She needs the man’s smell phone to find out hers. She makes a call from his cell...
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Meira Kumar was today elected unopposed as the Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha after emerging as the consensus candidate of the ruling UPA led by her party Congress as...
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A recent Supreme Court judgement has focused attention on gender discrimination in the Hindu Succession Act. V. Kumara Swamy investigates
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Women working in the federal government still earn less than their male counterparts, but the pay gap is shrinking.
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He also used to feed her acid. After all, he wanted a son. To demonstrate how rampant acid attacks against women and children are in Muslim-majority Bangladesh,...
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Irina Mikitenko of Germany has won the London Marathon for the second consecutive year.
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The evangelical men’s organization Promise Keepers waived conference admission fees and brought in standup comics trying to recapture its mid-1990s influence. The...
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The clergy guided and heavily religious flavored administration of Islamic Republic of Iran, in yet another tirade against individual freedom and liberty to choose own...
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Iran has severally criticized the film Persepollis which has won the Prize of the Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and will released for the general public in...
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Life for women in Iran has really gone haywire with the hold of the tyrannical reign of the Islamic clerics are getting stronger day by day.
After the fall of the...
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With just two more days to go, that proud Iranian women, Anousheh Ansari, who gets to be the first women tourist must be having goose bumps at the very thought of her...
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The countdown finally begins for Anousheh Ansari, the Iranian-born entrepreneur in United States. Bagging the dream from many other space aspirants Ansari has just...
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The Police forces across Iran are behind the women folks for quite a long time now to tame down their colorful dressing sense. Despite the rigid measures thrown by the...
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Shahla Lahiji, one of the well-known feminist in Iran has accused the government of neglecting women rights. Women in Iran still have a long way to go. However, to...
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Iraqi women burnt alive
Iraq as a nation might have won its freedom three years ago but the plight of women has not changed with the changing times.
Due to the...
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Despite the orthodox nature of the society and the world of ‘all black abayas’ for women in Iran, a very happening form of art is the new fashion statement...
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Last week, Iran kicked off the first International Women Polo Tournament. This event was more of a cultural exploration for the foreign teams, as myth, regarding the...
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The Iranian women in Tehran are preparing to stage a major unauthorized rally to vocalize their demands for more rights to women.
The rally will be joined by some of...
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Does anyone even remember that on May 30, two Iranian women made history by becoming the first two women to have reached the peak of Mount Everest?
30th May 2005 is...
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Muslim dress code has always been a much-discussed topic for the media network and in the conservative religious forums as well.
The Tehran Police recently launched a...
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It seems that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slowly trying to reform the lifestyle of Iran by bringing about little bit of changes here and there in different fields....
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Only a few days back, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lifted a ban thereby approving that Iranian women can attend the soccer games.
So inconsistent are the...
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The higher authorities in Iran have recently launched a project which will arrest any women dressed inappropriately in the public places.
This new campaign was kick...
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Out of the blue, without any prior indication President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lifted the ban on the stadium issue: ‘women from now on will be allowed to enjoy games...
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Haideh Moghissi in his book Populism and Feminism in Iran has beautifully portrayed the struggle of Iranian women for their legal rights and personal freedom....
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The Fourth Women’s Islamic Games turned out to be a great success for the Iranian women. The most interesting part of the event was to see the Muslim participants...
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