Save A Girl Child. 285 Indian girls replace names meaning 'unwanted' to rise above gender discrimination. Edmonton single mother barely escapes internet 'nanny scam' Esther Sagesse unwittingly wired $2,000 to a scammer in California after her bank told her a cheque for $2,700 had been cleared for her to use.
The cheque turned out to be fraudulent. An alert agent at Western Union in California became suspicious of the person who tried to claim the $2,000 and… Ending global poverty begins with women's rights. Iran reportedly sentences film actress to 90 lashes. (Bonnie Elliott/Sydney Morning Herald)An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian actress to one year in jail and 90 lashes related to her role in an Australian-made film portraying social alienation, artistic repression and drug use in Iran, according to an Iranian opposition website.
"In an outcome that could have been lifted from the pages of the movie's script"--"My Tehran for Sale"--the film's lead actress, Marzieh Vafamehr, "was arrested in July and received her sentence at the weekend, according to reports quoting Iranian opposition website kalameh.com," the Sydney Morning Herald reported. In the 2009 film, Vafamehr portrays a Tehran actress whose theater work is banned by the authorities and is thus driven to Tehran's cultural underground. Ultimately, she contemplates whether to leave Iran for exile abroad. WWF - Local to Global Environmental Conservation. Child Sponsorship & Gifts. Because I Am A Girl – Empowering Girls and Women Worldwide. Working to Protect Human Rights.
Amnesty International Canada. Vang Thi Mai, the woman who healed a village. Ma Thi Mi was sold for marriage in China.
She now works with Vang Thi Mai's co-op in Hop Tien making crafts to be sold to tourists Photo: Justin Mott | The New York Times Rare visitors to Hop Tien often catch a first glimpse of this sleepy village in a blur as they career, white-knuckled, around a hairpin turn high in the mountains above.