Between science and law.… Read the rest
Polish woman was refused an abortion
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDespite warnings that having a baby could make her go blind. … Read the rest
Karen Armstrong explains about God.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’… Read the rest
Controversy over Tariq Ramadan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRamadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.… Read the rest
IHEU on superstition and witchcraft in Africa
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.… Read the rest
Stepping Stones Nigeria on Child Witches
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”… Read the rest
Free Speech and its Postmodern Adversaries
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”… Read the rest
David Colquhoun on the problem of causality
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.… Read the rest
Sholto Byrnes criticizes secularism on the left.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.… Read the rest
Letter from a Birmingham jail
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’… Read the rest
Fadela Amara and ‘Ni putes ni soumises’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.… Read the rest
Christine Toomey on gender genocide
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFar from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite. … Read the rest
Turkey’s forced ‘suicides’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA growing number of girls and women are being locked in rooms by their families, with a gun, poison or a noose, and left there until they kill themselves. … Read the rest
Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.… Read the rest
Fuambai Ahmadu cheers Bondo women
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’… Read the rest
Afghan women protest law despite bullies screaming ‘whores!’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne provision makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.… Read the rest
Journalists in shock after abduction by FGM group
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHead of group said the women were taken into “our custody because they spoke unfavourably on radio against FGM”… Read the rest
FGM group kidnaps female journalists
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe female kidnappers accused the journalists of insulting their traditions by criticising the practice. … Read the rest
Sierra Leone: women journalists kidnapped by pro-FGM group
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe group regarded their questions and comments as a sign of disrespect for their traditions.… Read the rest
Escaping the Amish
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRape, incest, sexual abuse; physical and verbal abuse; women have no rights; rudimentary education; animal abuse.… Read the rest