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  • Nobel winner says feminism can help Iran (would better promote democracy than military force)

    09/20/2006 4:30:16 PM PDT · by Libloather · 13 replies · 499+ views
    Boston.com ^ | 9/15/06 | Erin Gartner
    Nobel winner says feminism can help IranBy Erin Gartner, Associated Press Writer September 15, 2006 RALEIGH, N.C. --Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, said supporting feminist movements in the Islamic world would better promote democracy than military force. "Instead of bringing democracy with cluster bombs, we should support women fighting for democracy," Shirin Ebadi said through an interpreter Thursday during a speech at Meredith College, a women's university in Raleigh. A lawyer, former judge and writer in Iran, Ebadi spoke in Farsi to about 1,000 people about fighting for human rights...