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Three women reportedly buried alive a few days after they protested against previous live burial.

Publisher Martin Rynja thinks there must be open access to literary works; thugs don’t.

Kakar, a mother of six, was known for her courage in one of Afghanistan’s most conservative provinces.

‘Perhaps the biggest reason the force needs women is the escalating rate of domestic violence.’

Polly Toynbee and David Walker on rising inequality.

Head of Kandahar’s department of crimes against women shot to death on her way to work.

‘It’s nine years too late. There were tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths due to her.’

The Muslim media in Bosnia has opposed the festival; death threats were made against the organizers.

Controversial Section makes homosexuality a punishable offence in India.

Dozens of men attacked participants; many chanted ‘Kill the Gays!’ and ‘Allahu Akbar!’

You can’t escape ‘faith’ even at work.

‘It is thought that the men were suspected of attempting to set fire to a publishers in Islington.’

Fire was at property of publisher Martin Rynja, whose company Gibson Square agreed to publish novel.

It turns out ignorance is not a plus after all, even for conservatives.

Imams are also accused of refusing to speak out against domestic abuse in their sermons.

For recreation in the evenings I have been reading Appian’s Civil Wars of Rome in the original Greek.

Karma Nirvana’s Honour Network advises people who fear forced marriage or ‘honour’-based violence.

‘The newspapers grossly and crassly misrepresented everything we are doing.’

Sampling error quietly undermines almost every piece of survey data ever covered in any newspaper.

Five million people have died in Congo since 1998; the population of Norway. Would we notice if Norway vanished?