Author: Ophelia Benson

The group regarded their questions and comments as a sign of disrespect for their traditions.

The female kidnappers accused the journalists of insulting their traditions by criticising the practice.

Head of group said the women were taken into “our custody because they spoke unfavourably on radio against FGM”

One provision makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.

For protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’

19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.

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.

Far from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite.

“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.

‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’

For all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.

The problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.

The theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”

An increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”

Attacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.

Ramadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.

‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’

Despite warnings that having a baby could make her go blind.

Between science and law.

There are certain realities we should not lose sight of and certain people we should not sell out.