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Years and years ago I was exposed to an idea from clergymen:”In western world, women are used as commodities. Their scantily clad bodies are used
November 19, 2015
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Years and years ago I was exposed to an idea from clergymen:”In western world, women are used as commodities. Their scantily clad bodies are used
The Russian air force has been bombing indiscriminately all anti-Assad opposition groups during the last month. The raids are the result of an accord between
Over two years ago, in the heat of the debates among Iran’s pre-selected presidential candidates and the indifference of the overwhelming majority of Iranians, especially
Human Rights advocacy is a laudable activity. Advocates automatically occupy the high moral ground in pursuit of their goals – and this of course reflects
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been established in 2002 according to the Rome Statute to look into cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and
The UN made another mockery of human rights by electing the Islamic Regime in Iran (IRI) to five subcommittees of the Economic and Social Council,
Iran is just like the US! Both have the death penalty! This past week, I received several emails from Iranians who were outraged at the
Since people under totalitarian regimes, such as Iran’s, are kept unaware of their rights, complicated set of mechanisms emerges against their own collaboration ending in
Around three years ago, Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei, traveled to Kermanshah, Iran’s Kurdish region. He delivered a speech at the city’s university, Razi, where a
Seyd Hussein Navab Safavi was a young Iranian intellectual and a close advisor of Iran’s first president, A.H. Banisadr. Now, more than thirty years after
What is the definition of a criminal? At its most basic level, it is someone who deliberately breaks a law. Now, picture a man who is
I visited him in 2005 at his home in northern Tehran, facing the Alborz Mountains. He is the longest held prisoner of Iran, sometimes referred
On Sunday more than fifty women’s rights activists were violently beaten and arrested for exercising their rights to freedom of expression. These courageous activists had
A review of “Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran” by Danny Postel Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago. How do you explain the silence of the US progressives
By Ramin Ahmadi, MD, MPH and Joanne Cossitt, MA Griffin Center for Health and Human Rights On the eve of the 2001 presidential elections in
An interview with Azar Nafisi, professor of English literature at Tehran University, by Jacki Lyden, a reporter for the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) during
