Religious Belief in Culture
Religious belief began to develop thousands of years ago, ever since the beginning of the development of cultures. It is in our human nature to want to know more and answer unknown questions. Religious...
View ArticleHomosexuality In A Developing Nation
Today Indian cinema saw the debut of Bollywood’s first movie to depict a realistic view of the life of gay men in middle class India. The movie, ‘Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun’, is said to feature a...
View ArticleReligious Conflict, Partition of a Secular Nation, and the Aftermath
With the end of the British Indian Empire, the Indian subcontinent was dissolving into chaos. Indians who had once fought unanimously against 350 years of British rule were now turning against each...
View ArticleEquality for Women: Women in Saudi Arabia fight for their stolen rights
‘Think of the medieval ages, that’s pretty much how it is in Saudi Arabia. It would take a whole generation to fix all the problems women have here.’ – Amani, the Saudi Women Driving Campaign The idea...
View ArticleEquality for women: International Women’s Day around the world
. Algeria ‘Algeria’s Family Code states quite clearly that men and women are not equals within a marriage: “The duty of the wife is to obey her husband”.’ [The OECD Social Institutions and Gender...
View ArticleWriter campaigns to put an end to forced marriages in Britain
‘Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.’ – Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16(2). Earlier this month, a 16-year old girl in Morocco...
View ArticleHow one YouTube video shook the world; Innocence of Muslims
Earlier this week, protests broke out in Egypt and Libya against the production of an anti-Islam film called Innocence of Muslims. Produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Coptic Christian, the clips of...
View ArticleFrustration mounts in Pakistan as YouTube problem persists
YouTube was accessible in Pakistan via some computing and mobile phone platforms on Monday 12 November after the site was blocked for nearly two months. The ban was put into place amidst the uproar...
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