Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.… Read the rest
The dangers of too much ‘detox’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed. … Read the rest
Belief in hell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.… Read the rest
Brad DeLong on books as people
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’… Read the rest
LRA accused of selling food aid
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.… Read the rest
Flora Terah: beaten and tortured for running for office
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’… Read the rest
‘Honour’ killing rewarded with prize of 3 girls
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGuy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt talks to Der Spiegel
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFeminism created a new normal. … Read the rest
Charles Murray is Deeply in Love With Sarah Palin
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt on Palin the Affirmative Action Babe
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.… Read the rest
Dick Taverne rebukes Prince Charles
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.… Read the rest
Saudi Arabia: more female graduates, no more jobs.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOnly 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.… Read the rest
Swimming in Saudi Arabia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonForeign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest
Maryam Namazie on the veil
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.… Read the rest
Rape victims are guilty of zina; their rapists go free.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFour male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest
Women’s lives in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMore than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.… Read the rest
Woman’s Hour on women in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMaternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.… Read the rest
Primacy of the UDHR
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUniversal means universal.… Read the rest
Nahid Toubia fights against FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’… Read the rest
Canada will not participate in Durban II
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDurban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.… Read the rest