•Mexico: In a Zapotec (Indian) village, a woman named Eufrosina Cruz ran for mayor last year, despite the fact that local law—based on traditional Zapotec custom—doesn’t allow women to vote or run.
Cruz received several votes, but the town board tore them up on the grounds only a citizen can run for office and she’s not a citizen, she’s a woman.
•Two women have been sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran for adultery. An Iranian man has been sentenced to the same penalty in an unrelated case.
•Human rights groups say 79 Iraqi women were murdered in Basra last year for violating Islamic law. Another 50 women were murdered in honor killings.

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