It is estimated that as many as 74,000 women in the UK have had FGM and that every year a further 7,000 are at risk.

Across rural India, it’s easy to find people who revere sati as the ultimate demonstration of womanly honour, devotion and piety.

The use of cultural evidence risks a dangerous balkanization of the criminal law.

In their hearts these people were with us, but they were scared to show this.

The documents leave uncertain the degree of involvement of Benazir Bhutto but they trace the pervasive role of her husband.

Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.

The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.

Despite evidence that contradicts the story of a prelapsarian gynecocracy, and a glaring lack of evidence to support it, many people continue to subscribe to it.

She was to be mutilated at the behest of a man who wanted to make her his fourth wife.

against the publishers of Jewish Free Press and the Western Standards for sighting [sic]hate against Muslims

‘If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents.’

Shukria Barakzai, founder and editor of a newspaper for Afghan women, was named Worldpress.org’s 2004 International Editor of the Year.

The state cannot protect women and ensure that they can go about their work safely.

Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.

WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.

Bridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.

She was locked in a room for a year for refusing a forced marriage, spent five years living in shelters hiding from her family.

Ben Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?

This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders.

Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?