Finding ways for girls to integrate interests in science and shopping doesn’t work if girls think this is the only way to engage with it.… Read the rest

On Thursday, a mullah bashed the polio vaccination campaign, saying that new cases of polio were caused by contaminated medicine.… Read the rest

Before she died, Anene Booysen, 17, identified her former boyfriend as one of her attackers.… Read the rest

“Witnessing the FGM-associated complications that many were suffering caused me to speak out against it in public in 1976 which at that time shocked my family and my people.”… Read the rest

A group under the name of “Muslim Patrol” post YouTube videos showing them harassing people who they think are not conforming to sharia.… Read the rest

A group calling itself the Muslim Patrol posted  a video showing a gang hurling abuse at a gay man and described white women as “naked animals with no self–respect.”… Read the rest

“It was both very funny and also chilling, showing that, in fact, the class system was very active.”… Read the rest

Sandwich shop chain Pret A Manger has withdrawn a new “Virgin Mary” brand of crisps following religious complaints.… Read the rest

They face a similarly vocal pro-choice movement, reinvigorated by the death of Savita Halappanavar.… Read the rest

Catholics for Choice president Jon O’Brien said that providing such exemptions gives “carte blanche” to “religious extremists” to “trump the rights of others.”… Read the rest

Fetal heartbeat measures seek to outlaw abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, in direct contradiction to Roe v. Wade.… Read the rest

Her doctors say she will return to hospital within the next 10 days to undergo surgery to repair a missing area of her skull with a specially molded titanium plate.… Read the rest

Prominent atheist Prof Dawkins and the former Archbishop of Canterbury will discuss whether “religion has no place in the 21st Century” on Thursday.… Read the rest

The international community and human rights activists are urging Nigeria to reconsider the bill prohibiting same-sex marriage.… Read the rest

The subtle unnoticed ways women and men are treated differently.… Read the rest

Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack.… Read the rest

Because God said Ashanti McShan has to wear a long skirt instead of trousers to work at Burger King.… Read the rest

All that trash talk was her fault for being so wrong and she used the trash talk to deflect attention from her wrongitude.… Read the rest

Women are always told to shut up about the abuse or they’ll only make it worse. Sorry, mate; not on.… Read the rest

The petition claims that Pakistan’s ambassador to the US committed a blasphemous act two years ago when she criticized Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in a TV interview.… Read the rest