“In honor-based culture, people think that girls could become too independent and make their own choices if they educate themselves.”… Read the rest

Shahnaz Bibi was shot dead on Tuesday by two motorbike riders near the school where she taught in the Khyber tribal region.… Read the rest

“The Saudis usually ask for 12-year-olds.”… Read the rest

A gay teenager with Asperger’s makes new friends, invites them to his birthday party, is bullied to death.… Read the rest

There are pressures which may lead women to believe that leaving their husband is wrong, because it is their duty to be obedient.… Read the rest

A Swiss couple were camping during a cycling trip when they were attacked by seven or eight men. The man was beaten and tied up while the woman was raped.… Read the rest

“Now don’t tell me that those people are criminally responsible.” Therefore the church should conceal and protect their activities?… Read the rest

A proposed amendment by Egypt, that would have allowed states to avoid implementing the declaration if they clashed with national laws, religious or cultural values, failed.… Read the rest

Making women’s wellbeing secondary to “harmony in the home” and treating violence as a private matter are two obstacles to progress.… Read the rest

Shame-based double standards make people think that girls who drink themselves blotto deserve what they “get“.… Read the rest

It is now quite widely believed that Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife, played an active role in Einstein’s early scientific work.… Read the rest

Nigeria’s most prominent humanist, and a human rights activist, will be giving a ground-breaking talk on ‘Breaking the Taboo of Atheism in Black Communities’.… Read the rest

Student Rights reports that several events at London universities have been advertised as “fully segregated.”… Read the rest

Three men arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and false imprisonment at an Islamic girls’ school have links with the school, police said.… Read the rest

University College London said reports of segregation at the debate hosted by the Islamic Education and Research Academy on 9 March were worrying.… Read the rest

Attendees were rather astonished to discover upon arrival that two doors had been set up, one strictly for females and the other for males.… Read the rest

We do not allow enforced segregation on any grounds at meetings held on campus.… Read the rest

The Islamic Education and Research Academy is an extreme Islamist organization, whose staff includes Islamist hate preachers such as Hamza Tzortzis and Yusuf Chambers.… Read the rest

The mob attacked the houses in the provincial capital following allegations of blasphemy against a Christian man.… Read the rest

The law’s backers say it will prevent mass school shootings.… Read the rest