A team of male and female vaccinators was going door-to-door to administer polio drops to children under 5 when gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a male volunteer.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Mali: women and girls forced to wear hijab
“I can’t stand how I am at the moment, covered in a veil from head to toe. It’s as if I was in prison,” 15-year-old Aicha said.
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Mali: girls gets 60 lashes for talking to men
The Islamists told her to stop talking to men, but she didn’t stop, so they assaulted her.
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Malala’s likely future
Given the severity of the injury, there is a strong possibility there may be some higher-level cognitive deficits.
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Maria Hagberg on violence against women
Religious leaders should not be in charge of human rights but rather men and women who are striving for an equal society.
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Malala flown to UK for treatment
The panel of doctors recommended that Malala be shifted abroad to a UK center which can provide integrated care to severely injured children.
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The many other Malalas
Those pushing this struggle forward are not foreign. They are people like the teachers assassinated simply for going to work.
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Doctors say Malala is making steady progress
“She is making slow and steady progress which is in keeping with expectations,” the Pakistani military said in a statement released Sunday.
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Greece: fascists beat people up while police watch
The spectacle of fascists physically attacking people whose moral agenda they disapprove of has become routine in today’s Greece.
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Amanda Marcotte on whose consent matters
The belief that men deserve a veil of privacy that makes it easier to harass, beat, and rape women is ingrained in our society.
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Indonesia: teenage rape victim expelled
14-year-old was grabbed and held captive for a week, and repeatedly gang-raped. Back at school she was publicly chastised by her principal and expelled.
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Manchester man jailed for wearing “offensive T shirt”
Barry Thew, 39, was arrested wearing the top with the words “one less pig perfect justice” hours after the deaths of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes.
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Katha Pollitt suggests some actual debate questions
Any plans to end child poverty? How about racial equality? Why lock up so many people? What about civil liberties? Separation of church and state?
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Malala transferred to Rawalpindi for treatment
One of the two other girls shot with Malala is out of danger, the other remains in a critical condition.
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Madonna dedicates a song to Malala at concert
She tshouted “Support education! Support women!” to loud cheers from the crowd.
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Pakistan: Christian boy arrested for “blasphemy”
Some nonsense about “blasphemous content” in text messages blah blah. Mob attacks house, sets fire to contents, family flees.
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Dawn reports Malala Yousefzai out of danger
The Interior Minister Rehman Malik says doctors confirm she is out of critical condition but also says next few days are crucial.
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Is office harassment a thing of the past?
Not only is classic workplace sexual harassment still going on, but technology has created new forms such as abusive emails, including rape threats and death threats.
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Gillard explains about sexism and misogyny
The opposition leader Tony Abbott has demonstrated it repeatedly, she says.