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Five Iranian girls who were arrested for a video of them dancing have publicly apologised, as Iranian women have shared support for the group by posting their own dancing videos. The five teenagers shared a TikTok on 8 March of them dancing to the Selena Gomez and...

United Nations member states have removed Iran from a key UN women’s rights group just months after it joined. The unusual reversal comes as Iran is rattled by an ongoing protest movement sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody of the country’s so-called...

by Mary Wald My neighbor is a twentysomething woman from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her family is still there. When I asked her how her family is doing, she said, “Well they’re alive, and that’s good. "What is so hard to understand is that the Russians were our brothers. We...

by Mary Wald   He's left us. The last time I saw Archbishop Tutu, we sat together on the deck of a house in Laguna Beach, the conversation periodically punctuated by a crashing wave, our faces warmed by the autumn sun. He was concerned that I hadn’t been able to...