I find that today being international woman's day this is more news worthy to support woman who have a global cause for fairness and attention and not a personal cause for attention.
*** found in todays news ***

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran released most of the women who were detained for a peaceful gathering in front of a court in the Iranian capital earlier this week, a lawyer for some of the women said Thursday, but three remain jailed.




"Twenty-eight of the detained women activists were released by Thursday," said Mohammad Ali Dadakhah, lawyer of two of the released women. Most were freed on bail ranging from $11,000 to $55,000.

Security forces arrested at least 31 women Sunday during their peaceful protest against the prosecution of five women activists charged with criminal offences in June 2006 for demonstrating in Tehran, Iran's capital. They are currently standing trial on those charges.

The released women were ordered not to attend a protest gathering to be held Thursday in front of the Iranian parliament to mark International Women's Day, the lawyer told The Associated Press.

One of the women still in custody, Jila Baniyaghoob, is a reporter, Dadakh said. "Her job requires her to attend gatherings." A lawyer Shadi Sadr also remained jailed. The name of the third woman was not immediately available.

It was not clear why the three women continued to be held. Calls to judicial officials were not immediately returned on Thursday, the beginning of the weekend in Iran.

Dadkhah criticized the arrests saying "the had no logical justification" because the women were just gathering.

United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour, a former Canadian Supreme Court justice, expressed concern Tuesday over the detention of at least 31 female activists who had gathered peacefully Sunday in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran.

During the June protest about 200 women demanded equal rights for women and the nullification of a law allowing Iranian men to have four wives.

Iran's Islamic law imposes tight restrictions on women. They need a male guardian's permission to work or travel. Women are not allowed to become judges, and a man's court testimony is considered twice as important as a woman's.

Despite such restrictions, Iranian women have more rights than their counterparts in Saudi Arabia and some other conservative Muslim countries. They can drive, vote and run for most public posts.

I think we should not think about the activists or feminists, they are able to do something for themselves. Whilst women in the west fight for equal rights and equal pay we should think about the women who cannot fight at aill.

Think about the women in the developing world that are no where near as privilidged as us. All the women who are murdered by their husbands, all the young girls as young as three that are raped in Africa, all the women who have not help during childbirth, all the women that have no access to any sort of assistance, then have to put up with their lives, if you can call it that. Read and weep!!

Two-thirds of the world's 800 million illiterate adults are women as girls are not seen as worth the investment, or are busy collecting water or firewood or doing other domestic chores.
* Two million girls aged from five to 15 join the commercial sex market every year.
* Domestic violence kills and injures more people in the developing world than war, cancer or traffic accidents.
* Seventy per cent of the world's poorest people are women.
* Violence against women causes more deaths and disabilities among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war.
* Women produce half the world's food, but own less than two per cent of the land.
* Of the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty, 70 per cent are women.
* Almost a third of the world's women are homeless or live in inadequate housing.
* Half of all murdered women are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.
* Every minute a woman dies as a result of pregnancy complications.
* Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours, yet earn only a tenth of its income.
* One woman in three will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
* 43 million girls are not able to go to school.
* Last year, one million HIV-positive women died of AIDS-related illnesses because they could not get the drugs they needed.
* Human Rights Watch, in reports on 15 countries including Afghanistan, Brazil, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Togo and South Africa, has identified violence against schoolgirls, child domestic workers and those in conflict with the law as on the rise.
* Women across the developing world are the victims of systematic abuse.

Taken from an article in todays Independent.

This is where the fight for womens rights, NO human rights is!!

No, I meant what I wrote, we say "womens rights", but in actual fact they are basic human rights. Human rights of women.