She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
Feynman on the Challenger
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAppendix F – a must read.… Read the rest
Woman in burqa horrified by woman in chador
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJust look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see.’… Read the rest
Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha al-Huwaider banned
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTo mark international women’s day 2004, International Pen Writers in Prison Committee focused on al-Huwaider.… Read the rest
Brian Whitaker on Joseph Massad on ‘the Gay International’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGay rights are part of the Orientalist project.… Read the rest
Khadim Hussain on Swat Valley After Emergency in Pakistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah … Read the rest
Women’s lives in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMore than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe admires Rick Warren
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBecause he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.… Read the rest
The Cardinal’s concern for children.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDocuments 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
Murdered Journalists
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGovernment 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
Rape in Congo
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCountless women in DRC have been raped and mangled, then shunned.… Read the rest
Inca children were fattened-up before sacrifice
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe 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
On Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRight from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.… Read the rest
Rape victims are guilty of zina; their rapists go free.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFour male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest
AI asks bloggers to support free speech
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHuman rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.… Read the rest
Kenan Malik interprets the Dispatches Muslim Survey.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest
Injustice in Malaysia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSubjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.… Read the rest
Akbar Ganji on the View from Tehran
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPolitical change in Iran is necessary, but it must not be achieved by foreign intervention.… Read the rest
Natalie Angier on the matriarchal myth.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDespite evidence that contradicts the story of a prelapsarian gynecocracy, and a glaring lack of evidence to support it, many people continue to subscribe to it. … Read the rest