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In 2004, she was an independent young woman living in the Iranian capital Tehran.
But her life changed forever when a rejected suitor called Majid Movahedi threw acid into her face, leaving terrible scars and blinding her in both eyes.
Ameneh started a campaign for him to be tried under an Islamic law which allows victims to have a say in the punishment of criminals.
She wanted Movahedi to be sentenced to have acid poured into his eyes - and what's more, she wanted to administer the punishment herself.
She won her case, although after an international outcry, the sentence is yet to be carried out."
Cine sunt romii est-europeni?
Serialul "Romii" a fost realizat în 2005 şi examinează agitata istorie a romilor, din antichitate şi până la Holocaust, ce îi uneşte şi ce îi diferenţiază pe romi atunci îşi definesc identitatea culturală, ce probleme şi ce viitor au romii în Europa secolului XXI.
Serialul prezintă aspecte din viaţa romilor din România, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Slovacia, Ungaria şi Polonia.A fost realizat în română şi engleză şi tradus şi difuzat de secţiile colege din BBC în limbile maghiară, turcă, persană, pashto şi urdu.
Programul al şaptelea oferă răspunsuri la întrebările adresate de ascultătorii români pe marginea serialului."
Why Do We Talk? meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech – including a father who is filming every second of his son’s first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.
Horizon also hears from the godfather of linguistics, Noam Chomsky, the first to suggest that our ability to talk is innate.
A unique experiment shows how a new alien language can emerge in just one afternoon, in a bid to understand where language comes from and why it is the way it is."
