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NEWS & LETTERS, February 2008 - March 2008Our Life and TimesWorld in Brief...IRAN's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his right-wing government have shut down ZANAN, the country's major women's magazine. Its feminist managing director, Shahla Sherkat, had kept ZANAN open for 16 years and 152 issues despite financial and political pressures. Authorities called the magazine a "threat to the psychological security of the society." The magazine offered articles on health, legal issues, literature, women's achievements and, recently, a discussion that laws codifying unequal treatment of women in Islamic countries lacked justification under Islamic law and could be changed. * * * The EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS has ruled that it is discriminatory to exclude individuals from adopting solely because of their sexual orientation. Earlier, E.B., a woman in France, had been denied the right to adopt by both the French government and the highest administrative court in France. |
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