Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

Democracy will only come to Iran if we women succeed.

Iranian women keep risking their lives to fight for their rights.

Lawyer and Nobel Laureate,

Shirin Abadi tells me whether this civil rights uprising

will actually spark real change.

Plus, there have been challenges

throughout our history, and yet we have overcome.

Amid America's battle for civil rights, she was the first female student to desegregate

the University of Georgia.

Now journalist Charlene Hunter Golt shares her five decades

of writing about black lives in my people. And Jan Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone

magazine,

behind the music and the glittering rise of rock and roll. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and tonight

we take a deep dive into the global struggle for civil rights from the United

States to Iran. What if anything has been learned from

movements of the past and are today's protests leading to significant change?

Women and their male allies in the Islamic Republic sure hope so.

Females have been at the forefront following the death of one of their own three weeks ago.

In a country infamous for crushing dissent,

these women are trying to force authorities to pay

attention to their demands, sometimes at their own peril. Correspondent Jomana Karadche reports.

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