IHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the UN HRC.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Prince of Wales joins ‘detox’ fraud
The word detox has no agreed meaning. It is a marketing word, designed to separate the gullible from their money
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Gerald Weissmann on Homeopathy and the Prince of Wales
When Prince Charles uses terms such as ‘integrated therapy’ he is following the lead of creationists who hide under the term ‘intelligent design.’
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Colorado senator opposes AIDS testing.
If the baby has AIDS, the mother will feel guilty, and that will be good.
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BBC boss says Islam should be treated differently
Also says his Christian beliefs guide his judgments.
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Pitcairn Island: 6 Found Guilty Of Sex Abuse
Six men were convicted of charges including rape and indecent assault in trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on Pitcairn.
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Submission in advance
A gigantic taboo zone has been created, repeatedly reiterated and expanded with the well-intentioned collaboration of Western intellectuals.
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Escaping the Amish
Rape, incest, sexual abuse; physical and verbal abuse; women have no rights; rudimentary education; animal abuse.
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Sierra Leone: women journalists kidnapped by pro-FGM group
The group regarded their questions and comments as a sign of disrespect for their traditions.
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FGM group kidnaps female journalists
The female kidnappers accused the journalists of insulting their traditions by criticising the practice.
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Journalists in shock after abduction by FGM group
Head of group said the women were taken into “our custody because they spoke unfavourably on radio against FGM”
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Afghan women protest law despite bullies screaming ‘whores!’
One provision makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.
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Fuambai Ahmadu cheers Bondo women
For protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’
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Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse
19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.
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Turkey’s forced ‘suicides’
A 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.
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Christine Toomey on gender genocide
Far from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite.
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Fadela Amara and ‘Ni putes ni soumises’
“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.
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Letter from a Birmingham jail
‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’
