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May 1 2010 11:37AM
AFGHANISTAN, FEMINISM, RAWA.

Please see below an interesting article in today's Guardian about a feminist protest group called the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/30/afghanistan-women-feminists…...

Apr 30 2010 4:43PM
Crude accusations

If on the evening of 6 May you've cast your vote (or not) and are in need of respite from election fever, and you’re near Shoreditch then head along to Amnesty’s Human Rights Action Centre for a free screening of Crude. The film...

Apr 30 2010 1:18PM
Laleh Hassanpour, a poet under torture to 'confess'

For a long time, every morning when I opened my Yahoo mail, there came the photo of this beautiful woman along with her latest piece of poetry. Laleh always wore a cap and smiled at you sideways. I never thought she lived in Iran. Her...

Apr 29 2010 4:36PM
The leaders debate: its a racing certainty they wont mention violence against women

I’m not, as the old cliché has it, a betting man (no, no, I’m really not a betting man, hate it …) but …isn’t that Paddy Power bet where you can try to guess which is the first country mentioned in the leaders’ debate wide open to...

Apr 29 2010 1:10PM
Commemoration of the 42th anniversary of Lin Zhao's death

Several human rights activists were detained due to theircommemoration of the 42th anniversary of Lin Zhao's death. Lin Zhao, born in 1932, was executed on April 29, 1968. Shewas labeled as a“rightist” during the Anti-Rightist...