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

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. … Read the rest

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest

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

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

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

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.… Read the rest

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

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

Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.… Read the rest

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.… Read the rest

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

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

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

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

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

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

Debate human nature.… Read the rest

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.… Read the rest

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.… Read the rest