Saudi women’s male guardians now receive text messages on their phones informing them when women in their custody leave the country.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Women in Ireland are third class citizens
Campaigners in Ireland have vowed to keep demonstrating until something concrete is done on this issue.
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Steven Moxon explains that women are incapable
He tells a parliamentary committee that women are biologically unfit to rise to the top in business.
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Why she voted “no” to women bishops
To be called to be a bishop is not to be called to be a CEO but to be a father to the church family. That’s why.
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BBC Newsday talks to Leo Igwe
African Humanists gather next week in Ghana to look at ways to promote an African “Enlightenment”. BBC Newsday’s Akwasi Sarpong spoke to Leo Igwe.
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Acknowledge ‘Almighty God’ or go to jail
The law states, “The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God.”
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Mabus arrested and released
He was arrested for violating the terms of his release, and released after agreeing to a series of conditions. Do we detect a pattern here?
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Kevin Clash resigns
Clash has played Elmo on “Sesame Street” for decades. He was profiled in a documentary last year, “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey.”
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Anjem Choudary plans to “declare a fatwa” on Malala
It’s not a death sentence, he says generously.
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Ars Technica on the arrest of Mabus/Markuze
Among the conditions of his parole were that he stay off social networks. He didn’t.
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The murder of Guinea’s treasury director Aissatou Boiro
She was investigating a high-level corruption case involving the alleged embezzlement of more than 13 billion Guinean francs (US$1.8 million) from public funds.
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Details of Halappanavar inquiry team announced
The Government was fully aware of the anger and upset over the death of Ms Halappanavar seen during protest marches over the weekend.
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Iran considers law restricting women’s right to travel
The draft law stipulates that single women up to the age of 40 must receive official permission from their father or male guardian in order to obtain travel documents.
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Censorship of social media in India
A young woman was arrested in Bombay today for asking on Facebook why the city was observing a city-wide shut down to commemorate the death of Bal Thackeray
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Republicans still say No to Violence Against Women Act
House GOP leaders aren’t yielding to a bipartisan coalition of Senate leaders demanding they extend the protections of the Violence Against Women Act.
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Athens: producers of “Corpus Christi” charged with blasphemy
Golden Dawn and the Orthodox church unite to repress all the things.
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Female genital chopping in Indonesia
Far from scaling down, the problem of FGM in Indonesia has escalated sharply.
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Rallies in Dublin, Galway in memory of Savita Halappanavar
Well not in memory of – in protest at the circumstances of.
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Egypt: Islamists want to destroy pyramids and Sphinx
“All Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,” said a jihadist lunatic.
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Rita Banerji on Diwali as a celebration of misogyny
Sita’s years in exile are paradoxically reflective of the lives of thousands of women in India’s slums and villages today.