Monday, April 13, 2009

Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women Rights movement in Iran


Above picture is Iran today and below is 1977




Thirty years ago women played a significant role in what later became the "Islamic Revolution" in Iran. Today women of my country still fighting for equality... Sometimes by voting and sometimes by boycotting elections (that's because there haven't been many free elections in Iran during the past 30 years). Follow this link for Simone de Beauvoir Prize 2009 (with French translation):