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Front Line Welcomes the Awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Tawakkul Karman of Yemenposted on: 2011/11/07

Front Line warmly welcomes the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Tawakkul Karman, a courageous woman human rights defender from Yemen, honoured for her outstanding work promoting peace, democracy, and human rights.

Tawakol Karmanposted on: 2011/11/02

History of Front Line Defenders campaigning efforts on behalf of Tawakol Karman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

Honduras: Death threats against human rights defender Ms. Gladys Lanzaposted on: 2010/07/21

Human rights defender Ms Gladys Lanza, Coordinator of the Movimiento de Mujeres por la Paz Visitación Padilla (Honduran Women's Committee for Peace "Visitación Padilla") has been subjected to death threats and intimidation.

Iran - Womens human rights defender Ms Somayeh Rashidi arrestedposted on: 2009/12/23

On 19 December 2009, women's human rights defender Ms Somayeh Rashidi was arrested after being summoned to the Revolutionary Courts for questioning. Somayeh Rashidi is an active human rights defender working on women's rights in Iran. She is involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign, also known as Change for Equality, a campaign led by women in Iran to collect one million signatures in support of changing Iranian discriminatory laws against women.

Iran: Summons issued to human rights defender and women's rights activist Parvin Ardalanposted on: 2008/05/29

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that a summons has been issued to Parvin Ardalan to present herself at the Revolutionary Court branch no. 13 on 2 August 2008 on charges of acting against national security through propaganda against the government. These charges relate to her work with websites Change for Equality and Zanestan. Parvin Ardalan is a women's rights defender and one of the founding members of the One Million Signatures Campaign.

Iran: Report Documents the Persecution of Women’s Rights Activists in Iranposted on: 2008/05/06

A new report by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran documents how the Iranian authorities have systematically thwarted peaceful and legal civil society efforts to advocate for women’s rights in Iran, abusing the legal system and gravely violating internationally protected civil rights in the process.

Iran; Shirin Ebadi writes to Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour on prison sentences for women human rights defendersposted on: 2007/08/01

Nobel Laureate , Shirin Ebadi, has campaigned for many years for the rights of women and children in Iran. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003 for her courageous work in defense of human rights. In this letter to Human Rights Commissioner, Louise Arbour, she sets our her concern at recent prison sentences handed down against women human rights defenders in Iran.