Category: Flashback

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

Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life.

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.

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

Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.

His book gives advice on wife-beating. Not too hard, not on the tender bits; do it right.

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.

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‘The acceptance of one’s God-given sex is a form of surrender to God or sumission to Allah.’

Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.

It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.

Driven to desperation by forced marriages and abusive husbands, more and more are seeking release through self-immolation.

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

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

The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious.

A democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.

Debate human nature.

Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.

Delegates from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka – which have similar female suicide rates – discussed the problem at a conference in Afghanistan in November 2006.