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Rudabeh Bakhtiar (Persian: رودابه بختیار, born 21 June 1966), better known as Rudi Bakhtiar, is an Iranian-American journalist and television producer.She is a producer for Reuters in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] She is best known for anchoring CNN Headline News Tonight, as well as Anderson Cooper 360, Voice of America, and Reuters News.
The country’s new reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian campaigned on a promise to halt the harassment of women by morality police. But the 85-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ...
In Iran, women's rights have changed according to the form of government ruling the country, and attitudes towards women's rights to freedom and self-determination have changed frequently. [6] With the rise of each government, a series of mandates for women's rights have affected a broad range of issues, from voting rights to dress code.
The United Nations has escalated the BBC’s complaint over Iran. In March, the British broadcaster filed an “urgent” U.N. complaint regarding the country’s harassment of female journalists ...
On July 5, 2007, Bakhtiar's lawyer wrote to Fox News saying that she had been unlawfully treated and terminated, citing a hostile environment of sexual harassment; quid pro quo sexual harassment ...
Negin is a former BBC Persian news anchor. Shas has more than 20 years of experience advocating for women's rights both inside and outside of Iran. Through her tireless campaigning at BBC Persian, she was instrumental in increasing the representation of women in the media from 7% to 32%. Negin has addressed the UN Human Rights Council twice ...
Iran has launched a major new crackdown on women defying the country’s strict dress code, deploying large numbers of police to enforce laws requiring women to wear headscarves in public ...
Shakarami participated in the Mahsa Amini protests of September 2022, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody and aimed at increasing women's rights in Iran. . The riot was called upon by The Covenant (پیمان) and the Neighborhood youth alliance (جوانان محلات ایران) bringing hundreds to Keshavarz Bouleva