Women's Rights Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/womens-rights/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:24:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Women's Rights Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/womens-rights/ 32 32 59910430 Narges Mohammadi, Physicist and Human Rights Defender, imprisoned in Iran Released with Sentence Commuted. https://concernedscientists.org/2020/11/narges-mohammadi-physicist-and-human-rights-defender-imprisoned-in-iran-released-with-sentence-commuted/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:05:37 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8751 Narges Mohammadi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who had been incarcerated in Iranian prisons since May 2015, was released on October 7 when her 16-year sentence was commuted due to health concerns. Her conviction and sentence in May 2016 were based exclusively on her peaceful advocacy for women’s rights and the abolition […]

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]]> 8751 2018 Sakharov Prize Winner Sends Speech to the American Physical Society Ceremony https://concernedscientists.org/2018/04/recipient-of-2018-sakharov-prize-sends-speech-to-the-american-physical-society-award-ceremony-as-she-was-unable-to-attend/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:57:27 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6895 Narges Mohammadi, the recipient of the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize, sent her acceptance speech to the Conference when it was awarded to her on April 15, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio by the American Physical Society. She was unable to attend, as she is still confined in an Iranian prison. Mohammadi was dismissed from her job […]

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