Cases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption.… Read the rest

Six men were convicted of charges including rape and indecent assault in trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on Pitcairn.… Read the rest

An increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”… Read the rest

Thy neighbor is not everyone, it is thy group.… Read the rest

A gigantic taboo zone has been created, repeatedly reiterated and expanded with the well-intentioned collaboration of Western intellectuals.… Read the rest

Attacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.… Read the rest

In 2001 Ratzinger issued an order ensuring the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.… Read the rest

Rape, incest, sexual abuse; physical and verbal abuse; women have no rights; rudimentary education; animal abuse.… Read the rest

Ramadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.… Read the rest

More concerned about the ‘eucharist’ than about the molested ‘minors.’… Read the rest

The group regarded their questions and comments as a sign of disrespect for their traditions.… Read the rest

‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’… Read the rest

If there’s a God gene, there must be a hat gene, and a jeans gene, and a singing gene, and…… Read the rest

The female kidnappers accused the journalists of insulting their traditions by criticising the practice. … Read the rest

Despite warnings that having a baby could make her go blind. … Read the rest

‘Racial slurs would not be tolerated or defended, but the use of sexist language was acceptable.’… Read the rest

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest

Appendix F – a must read.… Read the rest

Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see.’… Read the rest

To mark international women’s day 2004, International Pen Writers in Prison Committee focused on al-Huwaider.… Read the rest