Year: 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.

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

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

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

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

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.

Reasons not to talk about stampedes where “several” poor Third-World Muslims died.

“Every day women are sacrificed for their family or tribe,” Nilab Mobarez tells me angrily.

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?

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

We Have No Orders To Save You.

The scientific evidence is overwhelming and has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, the way science is supposed to be done.

AIDS denial plays a corrosive role in the health policies of many countries, but nowhere has the damage been as extreme or as enduring as in South Africa.