‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’… Read the rest

Sexual behavior may compete with the time and resources required for other goals.… Read the rest

‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’… Read the rest

Emboldened by their growing political power, religious conservatives are once again storming the barricades of science education. … Read the rest

Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress; fifteen died.… Read the rest

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

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.… Read the rest

Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.… Read the rest

TV is popular culture, the working class likes it, so put down that book.… Read the rest

Universal means universal.… Read the rest

‘There is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence.’… Read the rest

ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.… Read the rest

Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.… Read the rest

What is so good about having faith when you don’t have evidence? What is the real advantage to that? Why is this something that we want to encourage?… Read the rest

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.… Read the rest

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

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.… Read the rest

It is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother.… Read the rest

Maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.… Read the rest