women's-rights

Still, social critic M.G. Lord wants us to regard Taylor as a sort of inadvertent women's-rights advocate.

Women's Liz Clare McHugh 2012

Ms. Sahabi, a prominent women's-rights activist, had been serving a two-year prison sentence for attending opposition rallies in 2009 and was released from jail to see her father, a former revolutionary who later turned against the Islamic regime, after he suffered a stroke a few weeks ago.

Pressure Rises on Iran Leader Farnaz Fassihi 2011

Yet many legal changes aren't implemented, said Ms. Bayram, a lawyer with the Purple Roof women's-rights organization.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

Despite the government's intense crackdown, Iranian human-rights lawyers regularly defend ethnic and religious minorities, women's-rights promoters and civil-rights campaigners—always against the odds and often at tragic personal cost.

Iran's Lawyers Who Need Lawyers Kishan Manocha 2011

"I thought this would be the moment to really discuss women's issues, but it hasn't turned out that way," said Natalia Mori, co-director of Cfemea, among Brazil's biggest women's-rights lobbies.

Brazil Vote's Winners: Evangelicals John Lyons 2010

Mr. Altayli described women's-rights organizations that protested outside the newspaper's offices Sunday as "idiots" who knew nothing about "real life" and what it took to make the government act.

Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Marc Champion 2011

In the developed world, the civil rights movement obliterated lynchings and lethal pogroms, and the women's-rights movement has helped to shrink the incidence of rape and the beating and killing of wives and girlfriends.

Violence Vanquished Steven Pinker 2011

Ms. Sahabi, a prominent women's-rights activist, had been serving a two-year prison sentence for attending opposition rallies in 2009 and was released from jail to see her father, a former revolutionary who later turned against the Islamic regime, after he suffered a stroke a few weeks ago.

Pressure Rises on Iran Leader Farnaz Fassihi 2011

Only after years of protests from Iranian women's-rights activists and international organizations, was it raised to 13.

Iran's War on Women Nir Boms 2010

Today's anti-war camp is the legitimate inheritor of women's-rights and civil-rights movements.

It was Never about Democracy 2009