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Nobel laureate Ebadi lashes Iranian conservatives on reform
Not that much will come of it...Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has strongly criticised the conservative majority in the country's parliament who last week rejected two key reform bills, the news agency Isna reported. One of the draft bills related to equality and was aimed at eliminating discrimination against women on many issues including divorce and custody of children. "The fundamental principle of gender equality was not only rejected by the new male MPs but - and this makes me very sad - also by the female MPs," said Mrs Ebadi.
Posted by: Fred 2004-08-22 |
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