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Human rights law is not a product of western hegemony. In fact, Stephen James argues, the opposite is true.

When Moses climbed Sinai and received the Ten Commandments and the Bible, he was tripping.

The unconscious was not Freud’s discovery, but that of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche via Hume and Locke.

Harvard has banned men from a gym for six hours a week at the request of Muslim women.

Mehdi Kazemi, 19, learned his boyfriend had been executed in Iran, requested asylum; UK says No.

Ahmadinejad said ‘In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals.’ The audience howled.

Authorities suspect they have been taken abroad to be forced into marriage.

More than 200 girls disappear from Bradford schools each year.

She worships a two-story high teapot. But she was ‘born Muslim’ so she’s not allowed to leave.

Hundreds, if not thousands of stories of inhuman torture and Kafkaesque detentions in Bangladesh remain untold.

Bishop Richard Williamson told The Catholic Herald that the document was authentic.

Sources allege that meetings were hosted between the banned Mungiki militia and senior government figures.

It’s the hells angels’ code of ethics: If you don’t respect me I’ll kill you or scare the hell out of anyone you know.

How is it possible to combine ethical universalism with acknowledgement of difference?

Taxi drivers apparently think it’s their job to tell women what to wear, and attack them if they disobey.

What motivates educated, well-to-do urban sophisticates to continue to believe in miracles and supernatural beings?

Ardalan has denounced the country’s Islamic revolution for destroying a generation of Iranians.

Parvin Ardalan was on the plane for Sweden to collect Olaf Palme prize when the police stopped her.

Organisers say the ceremony will go ahead in honour of Parvin Ardalan, who won for her women’s rights work in Iran.

A woman fought back, and the crowd joined in, chanting ‘We do not want the Islamic regime!’