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Iranian women protest for right to run for president

[JURIST] Despite reforms giving women the right to vote, drive, and run for many government offices, hundreds of Iranian women staged a protest on Sunday [AKI report] demanding a right still denied them – the right to run for president [JURIST report]. Activists are campaigning for a constitutional amendment which would give them this right. Currently, the president must be chosen from political "rijal", which literally means men but can be interpreted as not being gender-specific [JURIST report]. AP has more.

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South Africa becomes first country on continent to legalize same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriages became legal in South Africa on November 30, 2006 as the country's Civil Union Act, 2006 went into effect, making South Africa the only country on the African continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Read the Civil Union Act, 2006.