Like many others, I was glued to #iranelection, #iran09, and, sadly, #neda over the weekend as I kept checking in with Twitter while working on AAUW convention projects. At one point I turned on CNN and saw Christiane Amanpour highlight the impact women are having in Iran, especially with the protests against injustice — what [...]
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The Uprising in Iran
Posted in Women and Civil Rights, tagged elections, Iran, news, women's rights on June 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
If you’ve been following the news about what’s been happening in Iran since last Friday’s presidential election, then you know that it’s a tense and increasingly violent situation. Is this the beginning of a revolution? It’s hard to say right now, but what is clear is that thousands of Iranians feel that the election has [...]
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