It is interesting that education is the pirmary one path women have to overthrow their opressors and they have stopped it.
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10Iran Bans Women From Getting Most University Degrees
by Diest inhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9487761/anger-as-iran-bans-women-from-universities.html.
anger as iran bans women from universitiesfemale students in iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.in a move that has prompted a demand for a un investigation by iran'smost celebrated human rights campaigner, the nobel laureate shirin ebadi, 36 universities have announced that 77 ba and bsc courses in the coming academic year will be "single gender" and effectively exclusive to men.. .
it follows years in which iranian women students have outperformed men, a trend at odds with the traditional male-dominated outlook of the country's religious leaders.
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How do deaf people think?
by Iamallcool insome of you know that i am deaf.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/how-deaf-people-think/.
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I am not bad, they were having a blast and it was fun to see such a close love. Imagine the most exagorated version of sign language....I am guessing that they were doing the sign equivilent of yelling.
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Iran Bans Women From Getting Most University Degrees
by Diest inhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9487761/anger-as-iran-bans-women-from-universities.html.
anger as iran bans women from universitiesfemale students in iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.in a move that has prompted a demand for a un investigation by iran'smost celebrated human rights campaigner, the nobel laureate shirin ebadi, 36 universities have announced that 77 ba and bsc courses in the coming academic year will be "single gender" and effectively exclusive to men.. .
it follows years in which iranian women students have outperformed men, a trend at odds with the traditional male-dominated outlook of the country's religious leaders.
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Anger as Iran bans women from universities
Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.
In a move that has prompted a demand for a UN investigation by Iran'smost celebrated human rights campaigner, the Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, 36 universities have announced that 77 BA and BSc courses in the coming academic year will be "single gender" and effectively exclusive to men.
It follows years in which Iranian women students have outperformed men, a trend at odds with the traditional male-dominated outlook of the country's religious leaders. Women outnumbered men by three to two in passing this year's university entrance exam.
Senior clerics in Iran's theocratic regime have become concerned about the social side-effects of rising educational standards among women, including declining birth and marriage rates.
Under the new policy, women undergraduates will be excluded from a broad range of studies in some of the country's leading institutions, including English literature, English translation, hotel management, archaeology, nuclear physics, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering and business management.
The Oil Industry University, which has several campuses across the country, says it will no longer accept female students at all, citing a lack of employer demand. Isfahan University provided a similar rationale for excluding women from its mining engineering degree, claiming 98% of female graduates ended up jobless.
Writing to Ban Ki Moon, the UN secretary general, and Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, Mrs Ebadi, a human rights lawyer exiled in the UK, said the real agenda was to reduce the proportion of female students to below 50% – from around 65% at present – thereby weakening the Iranian feminist movement in its campaign against discriminatory Islamic laws.
"[It] is part of the recent policy of the Islamic Republic, which tries to return women to the private domain inside the home as it cannot tolerate their passionate presence in the public arena," says the letter, which was also sent to Ahmad Shaheed, the UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Iran. "The aim is that women will give up their opposition and demands for their own rights."
The new policy has also been criticised by Iranian parliamentarians, who summoned the deputy science and higher education minister to explain.
However, the science and higher education minister, Kamran Daneshjoo, dismissed the controversy, saying that 90% of degrees remain open to both sexes and that single-gender courses were needed to create "balance".
Iran has highest ratio of female to male undergraduates in the world, according to UNESCO. Female students have become prominent in traditionally male-dominated courses like applied physics and some engineering disciplines.
Sociologists have credited women's growing academic success to the increased willingness of religiously-conservative families to send their daughters to university after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The relative decline in the male student population has been attributed to the desire of young Iranian men to "get rich quick" without going to university.
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How do deaf people think?
by Iamallcool insome of you know that i am deaf.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/how-deaf-people-think/.
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I was at a strip club once when there was a bachelorette party for two deaf lesbians. They were very cute togeather, and watching them sign about stippers was pretty fun to watch.
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Finland: move to reinstate national service for JWs
by behemot inmove to reinstate national service for jehovahs witnessesdefence committee chair jussi niinisto says the preferential treatment granted to jehovahs witnesses is difficult to rationalise to other conscientious objectors.
a kingdom hall is a place of worship used by jehovah's witnesses.
image: yle jussi niinisto, who chairs parliaments defence committee, is demanding that the military service exemption granted to the jehovahs witnesses be abolished.
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Id bet in finland they will make them work or go to jail...
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shepherd the flock gem
by outsmartthesystem injust reading through the manual that only elders have access to ..........and.
page 58 - "elders should act promptly when they receive a report of serious wrongdoing so as to safeguard the congregation and provide assistance to the wrongdoer.
neglecting to care for such matters can hinder the flow of jehovah's holy spirit to the congregation.
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OTS That is awesome...isnt that how we were made to feel. Eat that cake and you have harmed JAH.
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Candace Conti's Sur-Reply is Very Effective
by DNCall inat oral argument on august 13th, the court requested additional briefing from candace regarding the punitive damages being contested by watchtower.
from the case law cited in the brief it is demonstrated that the award of punitive damages is on solid legal ground.
although the court had until august 25 to render its decision as to whether the present judgment will be altered and watchtower granted a new trial, the court docket indicates that the court has entered an order already.
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Red Delicious is the worest fruit out there... I like Granny Smith and Fiji. Granny Smith makes the best juice.
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Candace Conti's Sur-Reply is Very Effective
by DNCall inat oral argument on august 13th, the court requested additional briefing from candace regarding the punitive damages being contested by watchtower.
from the case law cited in the brief it is demonstrated that the award of punitive damages is on solid legal ground.
although the court had until august 25 to render its decision as to whether the present judgment will be altered and watchtower granted a new trial, the court docket indicates that the court has entered an order already.
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The ruling from the court of appeals should be telling. I want to know about the duty of care issue. CA didnt have mandatory reporting back then, but then again the court always sees some duty of care for children.
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south africa - so disappointing!
by LouBelle inand thebsouth africa was on a high!
cameron van de burgh won gold in the 200m breaststroke.
chad le clos beat the amazing phelps by a finger, got the gold in that one, a silver in another.
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Thats a crazy story. Most of the SA people I meet dont have good stories to tell. Granted most of them are rich and white so it is hard to know the other side of things.