Iran: signs of a Lasting Revolution

By Claude Salhani - The Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced two demonstrators of the recent troubles that have perturbed the country since the contested election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to death by hanging.

Iran: Questions by the Participation Front to the Head of the Parliament

A special thanks to the iranian activists for translation from Persian

Dear Mr. Larijani the honorable Head of the Judiciary, The news of the execution of 2 prisoners accused of being Moharebs created a spark of surprise and astonishment amongst the nation of Iran and during a time when the political atmosphere is one of fervent hope to wipe out the dark clouds of hatred and vengeance, this faulty action by the judiciary system was only further proof that there is no willingness and desire to create calm in the country's political atmosphere.

Urgent: demonstration in London today in front of the embassy of Iran

As you are most likely aware, yesterday two of the political prisoners in Iran were executed without even notifying their lawyers or their families.

Iran executes two over election unrest

Iran executed two people on Thursday over widespread street unrest that erupted after the Islamic Republic's disputed presidential election in June, an Iranian news agency reported.

Iran accuses U.S. of seeking to use Internet against it

By Reza Derakhshi - Iran's supreme leader accused the United States on Tuesday of trying to use the Internet as a tool to confront the Islamic Republic, declaring that such a policy only showed Washington's frustration.

Report - 2009 Global Hunger Index

From International Food Policy Research Institute - The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean have reduced hunger significantly since 1990, but the GHI remains distressingly high in South Asia, which has made progress since 1990, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has been marginal.

The billionaires of the Iranian regime: where does the money of the people hungry

Iranian dissidents issued a list of 66 billionaires Iranians, all linked directly to the regime, which brought millions of funds abroad, while in Iran, people die of hunger. Among them are the son of Khameni, Ahmadinejad and other senior politicians in Iran.

Global warming: Environment ministers of China, South Africa, Brazil and India are meeting today in New Delhi

The environment ministers of China, Brazil and South Africa are scheduled to meet Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today to work out a common strategy ahead of formal-climate change negotiations.

23rd January is the Birthday of the beloved Neda Agha Soltan

23 January 2010 would have been the 28th birthday of Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman who was shot and killed by the Iranian government on 20 June 2009. Her murder was captured on video and became a symbol for the Iranian government's brutality against its own citizens.

Burkina Faso device strategies to adapt to climate change

Burkina Faso farmers are devising strategies to adjust to the changing weather patterns following a disappointment from the Copenhagen to help poor nations minimises the effects of global change in developing nations.

Poor nations’ children’s education at stake

The global financial crisis threatens to deprive millions of children in the world’s poorest countries of an education, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, with a knock-on effect on future economic growth, poverty reduction and progress in health and other areas, according to a United Nations report released yesterday.

World Bank: online consultations to help poor nations’ energy strategy

The World Bank Group launched online consultations today to gather input for a new energy sector strategy, which is expected to be completed in early 2011.

Iran's nuclear program: No agreement on sanctions

Diplomats from key nations focused on possible new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program at a meeting Saturday, but they reached no agreement.

Iran: challenges Facing the Women’s Movement

By Asieh Amini - The main demand of all social movements in Iran in the past decade has been to move through social and civil paths toward democracy.  The women’s movement, as a leading movement in this field, has also advanced its civil struggle based on “changing the law” and using “peaceful” methods.  Today, however, the question is whether the women’s demands and movement, as well as methods of struggle, are going to change now that the civil atmosphere is becoming more unstable and insecure.  When the regime cannot tolerate change, and responds to the movement’s peaceful demands with the harshest reaction, employing torture, rape and murder, are we still committed to changing the women’s legal status within the present legal framework?

Iran: today's meeting of 5 +1. Find an agreement?

Six major powers are on Saturday to mull a response to Iran's nuclear defiance but China is sending a lower-level diplomat in a signal of its reluctance to back tougher sanctions pushed by the West.

Iran: now the regime attacked the religious. Arrested Mohammad Taghi Khalaji

Iran has stepped up pressure on the opposition, arresting a dissident cleric and warning against using SMS and email messages to organise anti-government protests, reports said on Friday.

UN-backed microfinance project to benefit thousands of refugees

Tens of thousands of displaced people around the world will get micro-loans to set up their own businesses and become self-sufficient thanks to a new agreement between the UN refugee agency and a microfinance services organisation set up by Bangladeshi Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.

YEMEN: IDPs beyond the reach of aid agencies

By IRIN - Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the northern Yemeni governorate of Al-Jawf, some 270km east of Sanaa, have not yet been reached by humanitarian agencies, according to local officials and aid workers.

Mehdi Karroubi - An Open Letter to The People

Mehdi Karroubi in a letter addressed to the people of Iran while condemning the actions and brutality of plain clothes Basij thugs and security and police forces especially on Bloody Ashura, stated his five step resolution for the current crisis.

Iran: Karroubi accused the regime of "suppress the people in the name of religion"

Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi on Monday accused the Iranian authorities of "suppressing people in the name of religion" and vowed to remain defiant in the face of threats.

Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill – Briefing

Death penalty proposed for consenting same-sex relations Misreported & unreported aspects of the legislation. By Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner London, UK – 11 January 2010

Middle East: US Senators say Iran government may be on the ropes

JERUSALEM - Two U.S. senators traveling in the Middle East said Sunday that opposition protests in Iran suggest this was the beginning of the end for Tehran's clergy-led regime.

Iran: Bahais held over protests to face trial this week

Yesterday Iran told that members of the outlawed Bahai group arrested in connection with anti-government protests would soon face trial, as a spokeswoman for the group rejected charges they had weapons in their homes.

Iran: Regime coward - thirty mourning mothers have been arrested

Thirty mourning mothers were arrested yesterday in Tehran. The regime has once again proven to be composed entirely of men cowards.

Iran: appeals to the big of entertainment, music, cinema and information

For many months the people of Iran is fighting for his freedom. Thousands of youths have been arrested and tortured. Hundreds have died. Incarcerated girls were raped sexually. All because they called for freedom and human rights for the people of Iran.

South Sudan and secession: the fears of people living in the north

By Opheera McDoom - Southern Sudanese living in the north fear intimidation or even war if a referendum next year results in secession from the rest of the country and many are calling for international monitoring to protect their rights.

Iran: the regime into a corner

By Raghida Dergham - The news from Iran is still in the limelight both in the region and in the world at large, and will continue to be so for some time, given that this internal affair has become an international issue, and since the regime in Tehran has been shaken, while its aura, stature and the absolute powers given to the Supreme Leader seem to have collapsed.

Urgent and alarming - Shots Against Karroubi

The armoured car of one of Iran's opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire in the northern town of Qazvin, his party's website reported on Friday, but only the windows were damaged.

Urgent (update): 2 Steps, 1 Minute, to Support for People of Iran

The visit of EU representatives in Iran has been postponed but not canceled. We want to be permanently canceled. Please follow these guidelines

Iran may change: it's time for action not for sanctions

By Bahman Baktiari - If the Iranian rulers had hoped that they'd finally gotten opposition protesters under control after the June 2009 disputed elections, the recent demonstrations should have disabused them. The latest protests have shaken the Iranian establishment, plunging it into the worst political crisis it has ever seen.

Video Shock: What happens in Iranian prisons

A video that showing realistically what happens  in the iranian prisons to the Iranian dissidents  and young boys and girls who  have protested

Iran: the demands of the green movement

A group of Iranian intellectuals abroad has made a list of demands of the green movement. The names of the intellectuals are: Abdolkarim Soroush, Akbar Ganji, Mohsen Kadivar, Abdolali Bazargan, and Ataollah Mohajerani

Campaign against the visit of the European Union in Iran

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN. WE NEED HELP FROM ALL FRIENDS WHO WANT A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC IRAN!!

URGENT - IRAN: Reporter and Journalist, Nasrin Vaziri, Missing

Committee of Human Rights Reporters in Iran –  The family of Nasrin Vaziri, reporter and journalist taken into custody since Monday, December 28th, report that their inquiries have gotten nowhere.

Speech of Mir Hossein Mousavi on January 1, 2010

In the name of God the Compassionate and the Merciful

It was constantly said to me and [my] friends that if we don’t issue any statements, people would not take to the streets and would quit their protests and demands, and peace would return to the country. I, as one of those accompanying the great Green movement of the people, was not in favour of this idea and believed that things would not go back to normal unless the necessary reforms based on the clear principles of the constitution were carried out.