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

Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.… Read the rest

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest

Appendix F – a must read.… Read the rest

Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see.’… Read the rest

To mark international women’s day 2004, International Pen Writers in Prison Committee focused on al-Huwaider.… Read the rest

Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.… Read the rest

The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah … Read the rest

More than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.… Read the rest

Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.… Read the rest

Very nasty stuff… 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

Government and military officials are suspected of plotting, ordering, or carrying out more than a quarter of journalist murders over the past 15 years, CPJ’s analysis shows.… Read the rest

Countless women in DRC have been raped and mangled, then shunned.… Read the rest

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.… 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

Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest

Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.… Read the rest

The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder… Read the rest

The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest