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Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on Monday urged the international community to act to end the "oppression" of women in Iran, two years after the start of a women-led protest movement. "I call on international institutions and people around the world... to take active action," she said in a letter written in Tehran's Evin prison ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/05 15:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ali Khamenei Capital punishment execution Iran WOMEN
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said in a statement. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/08 13:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Iraqi Parliament is set to legalize child marriage, a major setback for the rights of women and girls in the country. The move follows a controversial bill passed on August 16, 2024, which would lower the legal age of marriage to 13 for girls and 16 for boys. The new legislation is a revision of the current Personal Status Law, which ...
