Human Rights Day – Education Is Not A Crime

Dr Mohammad Maleki (former president of the University of Tehran) “The right to education is a human right which should not be denied from any human being; It is not acceptable to deny any one from this right on the account of one’s belief, religion, sex or any other criteria.”…

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Human Rights Day – Education Is Not A Crime

Dr Shirin Ebadi (2003, Nobel Peace Prize Winner) “Young people play a major role in the economic and cultural development of every society, the disaster is when some young people wish to pursue their education, but their government denies them this right.” To learn more visit Education Is Not A…

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“…you have now been welcomed into a vast and honoured company of imprisoned writers…” Alberto Manguel writes to Mahavash Sabet

Dear Mahvash Sabet, It’s almost an impertinence, I feel, to write to a poet who is being kept behind bars for her words and beliefs. King Lear, imprisoned at the end of the play with his daughter Cordelia, tells her that they will become “God’s spies”. That is what you…

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