A team of male and female vaccinators was going door-to-door to administer polio drops to children under 5 when gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a male volunteer.… Read the rest

“I can’t stand how I am at the moment, covered in a veil from head to toe. It’s as if I was in prison,” 15-year-old Aicha said.… Read the rest

The Islamists told her to stop talking to men, but she didn’t stop, so they assaulted her.… Read the rest

Given the severity of the injury, there is a strong possibility there may be some higher-level cognitive deficits.… Read the rest

Religious leaders should not be in charge of human rights but rather men and women who are striving for an equal society.… Read the rest

The panel of doctors recommended that Malala be shifted abroad to a UK center which can provide integrated care to severely injured children.… Read the rest

Those pushing this struggle forward are not foreign. They are people like the teachers assassinated simply for going to work.… Read the rest

“She is making slow and steady progress which is in keeping with expectations,” the Pakistani military said in a statement released Sunday.… Read the rest

The spectacle of fascists physically attacking people whose moral agenda they disapprove of has become routine in today’s Greece.… Read the rest

The belief that men deserve a veil of privacy that makes it easier to harass, beat, and rape women is ingrained in our society.… Read the rest

14-year-old was grabbed and held captive for a week, and repeatedly gang-raped. Back at school she was publicly chastised by her principal and expelled.… Read the rest

Guess why.… Read the rest

Barry Thew, 39, was arrested wearing the top with the words “one less pig perfect justice” hours after the deaths of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes.… Read the rest

Any plans to end child poverty? How about racial equality? Why lock up so many people? What about civil liberties? Separation of church and state?… Read the rest

One of the two other girls shot with Malala is out of danger, the other remains in a critical condition.… Read the rest

She tshouted “Support education! Support women!” to loud cheers from the crowd.… Read the rest

Some nonsense about “blasphemous content” in text messages blah blah. Mob attacks house, sets fire to contents, family flees.… Read the rest

The Interior Minister Rehman Malik says doctors confirm she is out of critical condition but also says next few days are crucial.… Read the rest

Not only is classic workplace sexual harassment still going on, but technology has created new forms such as abusive emails, including rape threats and death threats.… Read the rest

The opposition leader Tony Abbott has demonstrated it repeatedly, she says.… Read the rest