There can no longer be any pretence that the Human Rights Council can defend human rights.… Read the rest

Bishop of Durham refused to answer, so what else can he do?… Read the rest

The Age of American Unreason feeds the notion of American anti-intellectualism as a no-brainer truth.… Read the rest

HRC was supposed to be a Council whose members genuinely supported the principles of the UDHR.… Read the rest

She finally escaped, but then she went back home.… Read the rest

United Iraqi Alliance MP Qais al-Ameri argued that honour crimes are permitted under sharia.… Read the rest

The first step to dealing with honour killings is to criminalise forced marriage.… Read the rest

Remembering Du’a Khalil Aswad and the thousands of other victims of ‘honour’ killings.… Read the rest

Only condition: the scientists must be willing to accept instruction from Churches on basic morality.… Read the rest

US newspapers keep discovering that yes, the Pope does believe all that. Yes, still.… Read the rest

No, the baby didn’t push his hand out and wave to the crowd.… Read the rest

Because somebody maybe thinks it perhaps might annoy Hizbollah possibly.… Read the rest

Goldin carefully explained the science behind phthalate safety research; her effort was wasted.… Read the rest

Ban Ki-moon condemns ‘offensively anti-Islamic film,’ says right of free speech is not at stake.… Read the rest

Said the conditions she lived in were virtual house arrest and that she was denied medical attention.… Read the rest

If one aspect of a genuine democracy is to sustain free debate, the episode has dented India’s claims.… Read the rest

‘Saudi Arabia called for tolerance of all religions’ – sic!… Read the rest

‘Those promoting “enlightened moderation” are the agents of darkness,’ says Fazlullah.… Read the rest

Sharma doesn’t believe that the Iranian authorities are conducting an antigay witch-hunt.… Read the rest

Experiments to look at the mental mechanisms needed to represent an omniscient deity.… Read the rest