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Ignoring “Women’s Life” in the Law
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Gender-based violence kills women more than any other danger in the world. Iran is one of the countries where femicides, also known as “family homicides” or “honor killings”, account for a high share of official statistics.
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Woman who has always been a victim of honor killings
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Each year, dozens of women are killed by family members in the name of honor, and the Iranian law can not protect women from violence. No exact statistics exist on the number of murders called “Femicide” or “Honor Killing” in Iran, and any published statistics in this regard are either very old or are…
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Women shouldn’t work in fishing, they say!
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People calls her Khajo; Khadijeh Ghodsinejad, 22 years old, born in Hengam. She is a fisher, like many other women of Hengam, an island known as the fisher-woman and the financial responsible of the family. The story of the fisher-women of the island has been covered by the Iranian media for several years and…
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Afghanistan; State-building project in the era of warlords
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chapter two The previous section examined the history of land reform in Afghanistan. We will examine the situation in the 1990s in this section. Many sources have been used in writing this article, some of them historically significant. One of these sources is a long analytical article published by a political/labor collective in Iran.…
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Afghanistan; the land of conflicts
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chapter one Many sources have been used in writing this article, some of them historically significant. One of these sources is a long analytical article published by a political/labor collective in Iran. Its revolutionary historical and class analysis led me to use it to write this collection of essays. The discussion of recent events…
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Iran, water crisis and repression
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There has been a prolonged drought in Iran since the early twentieth century, resulting in the destruction of lakes and wetlands as well as excessive water stress throughout the country. As an example of “human intervention” in water resources, the Iranian drought can be described as a water stress caused by aggressive pressure on…
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Election in Iran
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The political landscape in Iran is characterized by a high degree of unpredictability, particularly during presidential elections. It was the first time that the presidential elections in Iran became a serious matter for the public when Mr Khamenei’s unapproved candidate, Mohammad Khatami, won with a surprising 20 million votes in 1997. The censorship and…