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On June 14th, Indian gold medal winner Pinki Pramanik was arrested following accusations of rape and “being male” by her live-in partner. She was suspended from her job, detained in…
December 10, 2012Read More
Today the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to the EU. The prize of SEK 8 million originates from Alfred Nobel’s fortune, part of which was amassed from the Nobel…
December 10, 2012Read More
Did American Lance Armstrong and Britain’s Sir Jimmy Savile attempt to use charitable giving as a kind of moral sunscreen? asks Robin Scott. Two things have happened on either side…
October 17, 2012Read More
As a child and young teenager I adored Westerns: Cowboys and Indians! I remember gripping the edge of my seat as on the screen hordes of whooping Indians – the…
September 11, 2012Read More
In 2003, when the United States invaded Iraq, I found myself in the awkward position of defending the war to my liberal friends and family. I was majoring in International…
September 11, 2012Read More
Hida Viloria, a campaigner for rights for those with intersex conditions, appeals to Hillary Clinton to broaden her campaign against Female Genital Mutilation. Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…
February 23, 2012Read More
Remember the heady days of 2009? The world – or at least the world’s media – was rocked by such hot topics as the death of Michael Jackson, the spread…
February 8, 2012Read More
Illegal logging is one of the most damaging and lucrative forms of environmental crime. In financial terms, the World Bank estimates that illegal logging costs developing countries $15 billion a…
January 6, 2012Read More
The Anglican Ordinariate that was created by the Roman Catholic Church as a means of permitting the conversion of disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians to the Church of Rome is ethically…
January 3, 2012Read More
It can seem that the Catholic Church opposes the recent attempts to increase access to the morning-after pill due to nothing more than religious dogma (as Terry Sanderson commented earlier).…
December 16, 2011Read More