26 March 2015

Regardless of whether we can actually implement amputations, floggings and stoning, the mentality is already implanted. A STAPLE of the news these days is the many barbaric acts of the group known as the Islamic State or IS in Syria. Every day we are treated to news of their threats as well as actual acts of...

12 March 2015

We don’t want you to just love us, we also want you to respect us as equals. ON International Women’s Day this year, some Afghan men did an extraordinary thing. They paraded in Kabul wearing the burqa to draw attention to the issue of women’s rights in their country, or rather the lack of women’s rights. In...