The state of Utah is not doing enough to save its imperiled Great Salt Lake and stop an impending ecological collapse, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by national and western environmental groups.
The suit filed in Utah state court seeks an injunction that would force state leaders to come up with a comprehensive plan to prevent the lake from drying.
State lawmakers have recently put hundreds of millions of dollars toward conservation and other water saving rules, but the groups say it amounted to " Read More...
Between 1925 and 1979, Iranian women gained significant rights: access to education and employment, no requirement to wear a veil, the freedom to petition for divorce and child custody, and the rights to vote and to run for public office. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 established a theocracy that largely removed women from public life, both in government and the entertainment industry. Since then, women in the country have fought to try and regain the rights they lost, with many joining grassroots activist movements like the One Million Signatures campaign and pushing for parliamentary candidates who favor restoring women's liberty. Read More...