A woman is raped every two hours and gang-raped every eight hours in Pakistan, according to HRC.
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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Africans React to Gay Marriage Bill
In Uganda, Faridah Kenyini said South Africa had set a good example for rest of continent.
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Press Releases from HRC of Pakistan
Lots of news there.
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Mutual Contempt is a Sacred Liberty
Brown should not be seen to promote, by force of law, some dubious concept of a ‘mainstream.’
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Fears for Lesbian Facing Deportation to Uganda
She is being deported tonight, despite facing persecution and a jail sentence of up to seven years.
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Carlin Romano on Philosophical Detective Novels
Combine profundities of truth and meaning with fast-paced narrative ratiocination and be another Eco.
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Michael Dirda on Robert Irwin on Orientalism
‘Irwin has, to use his own highest accolade, tried to get things right.’
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South Africa Legalizes Same-sex Marriage
SA constitution the first in the world to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual preference.
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Is Feminism a War Against Boys?
No: the ‘war against boys’ is a war against feminism.
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A C Grayling on Religion’s Last Bloody Fling
Media amplification makes religion seem ubiquitous, but it’s fighting a rearguard action.
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Ralf Dahrendorf Asks Why Religion Has Returned
Enlightened countries have become unsure of their values, even of the Enlightenment itself.
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Religion and Politics: Overlapping Magisteria?
We should not feel obliged to agree with people whose reasons for their political views are religious.
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Clive James Interview
Peace and freedom not natural states, but a construction that needs constant maintenance.
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NWFP Passes Taleban-like Law
Musharraf denounced a similar bill last year as a breach of fundamental human rights.
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State Church Dangerous in Fundamentalist Era
Religious leaders sit ex officio in the legislature only in the UK and Iran.
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Jesus and Mo on Lying
Moses gets thirsty.
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Help Ben Goldacre With Freedom of Inf Request
It’s about those fish oil pills again.
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Nick Cohen is Uneasy About Smug Sociologists
Who say fellow citizens are addled by ‘moral panics’ which they are too sophisticated to fall for.
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Discussion of Women and Veiling
Radio Netherlands has an exchange of views.
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Grayling on Mandatory Religion
Offers the archbishops a lesson in semantics.