Across rural India, it’s easy to find people who revere sati as the ultimate demonstration of womanly honour, devotion and piety. … Read the rest
Flashback
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
WHO study on risks of FGM 
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.… Read the rest
Iran’s bloggers in censorship protest
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.… Read the rest
Pope Says No to Gender-neutral God
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.… Read the rest
Muslim-born woman detained for ‘rehabilitation’ from Hinduism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Islamic officials seized her 15-month-old daughter from her Hindu husband, Suresh Veerappan, last month and handed the child to Revathi’s Muslim mother.… Read the rest
Swimming in Saudi Arabia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest
Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha al-Huwaider banned
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To mark international women’s day 2004, International Pen Writers in Prison Committee focused on al-Huwaider.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe admires Rick Warren
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.… Read the rest
Constitution? What constitution?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”… Read the rest
Nebraska 1997: Multiculturalism meets child marriage
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The use of cultural evidence risks a dangerous balkanization of the criminal law.… Read the rest
Carl Sagan on Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest
Who should be able to stop a forced marriage?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.… Read the rest
Cambridge Mosque press release [on mosque site]
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest
Little help available for minors fleeing FLDS
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways. … Read the rest
Spanish women’s groups sue imam
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
His book gives advice on wife-beating. Not too hard, not on the tender bits; do it right.… Read the rest
Saudi Arabia: more female graduates, no more jobs.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.… Read the rest
Rape in Congo
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Countless women in DRC have been raped and mangled, then shunned.… Read the rest
Anthony Grayling and Keith Ward
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
God didn’t do it, he wasn’t there at the time, and besides he’s sorry.… Read the rest
Interview with Mukhtaran Mai
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In their hearts these people were with us, but they were scared to show this. … Read the rest
