Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel peace prize winner. She recently accepted, on behalf of Abdulreza Tajik, an Iranian journalist who is in prison, the Reporters Without Borders ‘Journalist of the Year’ award. euronews used the occasion to talk to Shirin Ebadi about human rights in Iran. … www.euronews.net
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This program is a discussion of human rights with a focus on women’s rights in Iran. Covered are a brief timeline of Iran’s political history and women’s contributions to human rights, past and present. A comparison of the current political atmosphere with Iran’s past and future is highlighted, and what efforts are being made toward a future change in policy. The current regime in Iran is not supported by a majority of its citizenry; it is currently unstable and volatile. But there is an alternative to a war with Iran that is also an alternative to appeasement. There is a third choice that could effectively end the funding and exportation of terror and the flagrant violation of human rights being perpetrated on Iranian citizens by its government; an alternative that could prevent the promotion of further human rights violations. There is an alternative that is peaceful, intelligent and democratically organized, and legitimized by international law. The third alternative needs neither financial nor military support from the US
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For more information on THE SARI SOLDIERS click here www.wmm.com Email orders@wmm.com for ordering information. Tell us you found it on YouTube! A film by Julie Bridgham Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepals modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six womens courageous efforts to shape Nepals future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the Kings crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughters fate and see justice done. -Human Rights Watch FF, NY, Nestor Almendros Prize -Human Rights Watch Film Festival, London
www.unwatch.org UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer slams Iran and Saudi Arabia after they expound on women’s rights. Arab group says women should not be miners.
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Nobel Peace Laureate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi of Iran describes how education can lead to peace in the Middle East and calls for an end to discrimination against women in this riveting address presented by theJoan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and the School of Law at the University of San Diego. Series: “Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series” [10/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11869]
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women’s rights are human’s rights
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