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Iran

August 17, 2009 Boss Lady 2 comments

Mideast Iran Women at the FrontFILE – In this Tuesday, June 9, 2009 file photo, Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, waves to the people during a rally at Heidarnia stadium, during the final days of the election race in Tehran, Iran. In a part of the Muslim world where women are often perceived of as the repressed gender, images of Iranian women during and after the recent elections have catapulted Iran’s female demonstrators into the forefront of the country’s opposition movement. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

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Kenya

August 7, 2009 Boss Lady 1 comment

SOMALIA-CONFLICT/

gee woman adjusts her headscarf at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya’s northeastern province June 5, 2009. The United Nations said on Friday that 96,000 Somalis had fled their homes during a month of battles between Islamist rebels and the government in Mogadishu. They have swelled the more than 1 million internal refugees in Somalia, which aid agencies say has one of the world’s worst — and most neglected — humanitarian crises. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly (KENYA CONFLICT SOCIETY HEALTH)