Italy, Iraq, Colombia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, China.… Read the rest
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Normblog on Appiah on Moral Obligation
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe socialist idea is that we sign up to a code according to which people do not die unrescued.… Read the rest
Bush Vetoes Limits on Torture
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe bill would have limited all American interrogators to techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual.… Read the rest
Women’s Day in Afghanistan
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen the Taliban took over, the public lives of women effectively came to an end.… Read the rest
Debate on Blasphemy Abolition: Column 1118
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonYork: ‘the protection of society is achieved by ensuring that the Christian religion is treated with respect.’… Read the rest
Lords Approve Abolition Of Blasphemy
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAfter an acrimonious debate in which the bogeyman of secularism was repeatedly invoked.… Read the rest
3,000 UK Women a Year Forced Into Marriage
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe study found at least 300 cases in Luton where victims had contacted community organisations.… Read the rest
Afghanistan: Thousands Protest Motoons Again
Mar 8th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGood to know they have nothing more important to worry about.… Read the rest
Wired Talks to Philip Zimbardo
Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUnderstanding why somebody did something leads to a totally different way of dealing with evil. … Read the rest
Sholto Byrnes Interviews Samantha Power
Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAuthor of A Problem From Hell and one of five senior foreign policy advisers to Obama.… Read the rest
Rayyan Al-Shawaf Reviews Desiring Arabs
Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJoseph Massad portrays Arab violence as inevitable wherever there is gay and lesbian assertiveness.… Read the rest
Jane O’Grady Reviews Revolution in Mind
Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe unconscious was not Freud’s discovery, but that of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche via Hume and Locke.… Read the rest
Moses Saw God Because He Was Stoned
Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen Moses climbed Sinai and received the Ten Commandments and the Bible, he was tripping. … Read the rest
Universal Human Rights: Origins and Development
Mar 7th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHuman rights law is not a product of western hegemony. In fact, Stephen James argues, the opposite is true.… Read the rest
Malaysia: Woman Jailed for Apostasy
Mar 6th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe worships a two-story high teapot. But she was ‘born Muslim’ so she’s not allowed to leave.… Read the rest
Bradford’s Missing Girls
Mar 6th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMore than 200 girls disappear from Bradford schools each year.… Read the rest
33 Girls Missing From Bradford
Mar 6th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAuthorities suspect they have been taken abroad to be forced into marriage.… Read the rest
Homosexuality is a Capital Crime in Iran
Mar 6th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAhmadinejad said ‘In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals.’ The audience howled.… Read the rest
Gay Iranian Teenager Faces Execution
Mar 6th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMehdi Kazemi, 19, learned his boyfriend had been executed in Iran, requested asylum; UK says No.… Read the rest
Creeping Back to Inequality
Mar 6th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHarvard has banned men from a gym for six hours a week at the request of Muslim women.… Read the rest