“Femicide is not a crime of passion; it is a crime of power” By Judy Haiven Did anyone mark the fact that November 25 was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against...
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Protests in Iran – regime change must come from the people
By Jane Green The grip of the theocratic dictatorship which has been in place in Iran since the early 1980s has been tested several times but none more so than in the past week, following...
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Iran in turmoil over killing
By Jane Green “The murder of Mahsa Amini is the trigger that has set off an unprecedented massive nationwide protest across Iran”, Jamshid Ahmadi, Assistant General Secretary of the Committee for the Defence of...
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Thirty-one years after Montreal, reflecting on culturally sanctioned misogyny
On December 6, 1989, a male student shot and killed 14 women – 13 engineering students and one clerical worker – at the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. Fourteen other people were injured in...
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