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On October 24, the International Women’s Media Foundation honored four women journalists for risking their lives to cover the news. Adela Navarro Bello, general director of Tijuana’s weekly news magazine Zeta, reports on Mexico’s drug cartels despite the fact that her former colleague and editor, Héctor Félix Miranda, was murdered for doing so.  Chiranuch Premchaiporn of Thailand faces a possible 20-year prison sentence for allowing comments offensive to the royal family to remain on her website, Prachatai. Parisa Hafezi, the first non-Western woman to serve as Reuters’ bureau chief in Tehran, has endured raids, interrogations and beatings from her government for critical reporting. And the BBC’s Kate Adie, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award, has reported from Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Libya and Tiananmen Square, to name just a few hotspots.

I had the great privilege to speak with Hafezi and Adie about their motivations, their experiences and the challenges of being a woman reporter in conflict zones. Though both women claim to have found their calling by accident, neither has ever thought for a moment about walking away.

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By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Many Iranian women and young people are disillusioned about the upcoming elections, desperate for reform but losing hope in their pragmatic president and his promise of a freer society. The Feb. 26 parliamentary poll will see pro-reform candidates, who broadly back President Hassan Rouhani, attempt to overturn the majority held by conservative hardliners in the 290-seat assembly. It will be a test of public support for Rouhani himself ahead of presidential elections next year. While the vote might not have an influence on foreign policy, which is determined by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the election of a reformist parliament could strengthen Rouhani's hand to push through economic reforms to open up the country to foreign trade and investment. Rouhani won the presidency in 2013, bolstered by the support of many women and young people who were encouraged by his comments that Iranians deserved to live in free country and have the rights enjoyed by other people around the world. "I am not going to make the same mistake twice. I have decided not to vote," said Setareh, a university graduate in the northern city of Rasht. "I voted for Rouhani - was he able to improve my situation? No." Rouhani's