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Shirin Ebadi: Human Rights and Civil Society in Iran

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Iran: After the Election

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Daniel Brumberg

Dr. Brumberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and a Special Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace. He received his BA in French and Political Science from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, and a Visiting Fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center.

Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On October 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She is the first Iranian to receive the prize.

Karim Sadjadpour

Karim Sadjadpour is the International Crisis Group's Iran analyst, based in Tehran and Washington DC. Over the past three years he has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian, American, and European officials, as well as hundreds of interviews with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others. He is a regular contributor to BBC World, CNN, National Public Radio, and PBS NewsHour, and has also written in the Washington Post, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and New Republic. Sadjadpour has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, given lectures at Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities, and spoken before the Council on Foreign Relations and Asia Society in New York. He has degrees from the University of Michigan and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, was a visiting fellow at the American University of Beirut, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright scholarship. He has lived in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East and speaks Persian, Spanish, Italian, and conversant Arabic.

Shirin Ebadi Rejects Separate Human Rights for Muslims

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Shirin Ebadi Considers Iranian Laws Sexist and Unjust

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farida yakoot

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Posted: 11.30.10, 11:24 AM

I had just finished reading her book, Iran Awakening, and I would like to say that only people from Islamic countries,and women in particular, can appreciate her struggle for the welfare of all humanity because they know exactly what price a woman should pay for spending her life confronting tyrants, then seeking justice and equality. God bless her. I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to listen and learn more about her.

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theknopfknows

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Posted: 08.15.10, 01:09 PM

Saudi Arabia did put out a Arab Human Rights in Middle 1960`s, However they purposely left out the equality for women, they mentioned Non-Muslims, converts,and slaves, yet women were less than slaves and not even considered.
�3 things are necessary for change anything less is a Entertaining Distraction.
First, get rid of Supreme being, the king must die, so people can live, 2nd
Separation Mosque from State, Religion separate from civil government, Third
Most important FREE ALL WOMEHN EQUAL rights for women and gays.
Anything less than free press, free individual, Free PEOPLE, is a JOKE a DEADLY JOKE!

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heybd

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Posted: 03.16.09, 06:20 PM

I don't know what the Islamic Declaration of Human Rights says, but why should there be anything besides the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? How could someone say any of those points are not human rights? All governments and societies should honor them.

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