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Online Hate Speech and Sexual Threats- How Women can Fight Back

April 10, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

One of my closest friends is outspoken, beautiful, intelligent and political. Like a lot of women who engage in activism online, she receives a fair amount of sexist abuse, threats and harassment. So when she asked me how I deal with the hatred I also often receive, I had to think pretty hard before giving […] Read more

An “Ever-closer Union” is Driving the EU Further Apart

April 10, 2017 | by Emile Yusupoff | 0 Comments

The Drive Towards a United Europe is Self-defeating. With 60 years having passed since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union and its predecessors have now shaped Europe for almost as long as the Soviet Union did. It is not an unnoticed irony that the EU’s 60th has coincided with the confirmation of the United […] Read more

Reflections on the Gender Pay Gap

April 8, 2017 | by CNLifestyle | 0 Comments

By Beatrice Louis and Scott Douglas Jacobsen #EqualPayDay is over. With it, we find the regular slew of mutual recriminations. While liberals resolved to fight the good fight to decrease the gender pay gap, Conservatives have re-posted and rebooted a number of videos, and articles, intent on destroying what they like to phrase as the ‘pay […] Read more

Stop Telling Secular Western Women to be Quiet

April 8, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Today, I got up and opened my laptop. Immediately, I see a barrage of comments and inbox messages calling me a ‘feminazi’ a ‘slut’ and a ‘stupid c****’. My crime? I made a sarcastic post on modesty culture. Did I ‘ask for it’ by publicly flaunting my views? Should I just shut up? It’s 4pm […] Read more

Is It Wrong to Assume Arab Countries Violate Women’s Rights?

April 7, 2017 | by Sarah Mills | 0 Comments

No country has benefit - especially Arab Countries - or has been shown to benefit, from the mistreatment of half its population. Women deserve better. Read more

Popular Trends and How They Affect the Problem of Witch Hunting in Zimbabwe

April 6, 2017 | by Takudza Mazwienduna | 0 Comments

Witchcraft has become one of the fundamental beliefs in Zimbabwe such that it is regarded as a reality. However, there is no evidence to support it. Read more

After the wars, investing in infrastructure is they way to stabilise the Middle East

April 5, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Germany, 1945. Berlin and her neighbouring cities are reduced to rubble, concrete and dust. The Red Army has arrived and blown out the floors and regime from under her feet. The women of Berlin wander like ghosts, clasping at the hands of their children, pale-faced at the thought of their husband’s fate. What happens now? […] Read more

Livingstone’s comments are dangerous for the Jewish community

April 5, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Despite the different interpretations you may be hearing, there are many reasons that the comments made by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone in relation to the Holocaust are deeply offensive for Jewish people. Contrary to the perception that he is being ‘told off for comparing Nazism to Israel’, there is actually a continued narrative within […] Read more

Invisibility of Atheism: Exploring the Phenomenon of Worldly Religion in Africa

April 5, 2017 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

Leo Igwe refutes conceptions of African religiosity as deeply mystical showing it to be embedded in material needs and desires, rendering atheism invisible. Read more

Am I a Radical? Identity Problems in the Electric Generation

April 5, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

I’m 18 and in the car chatting to my mother, and she’s unusually quiet. She’s probably not listening to me as I’ve spent the last half an hour raving about my new friend Haleema’s coursework. She pulls into the drive and stares ahead, silent. “Maddie, I need to ask you something.” “I’m not pregnant, don’t […] Read more

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Online Hate Speech and Sexual Threats- How Women can Fight Back

An “Ever-closer Union” is Driving the EU Further Apart

Reflections on the Gender Pay Gap

Stop Telling Secular Western Women to be Quiet

Is It Wrong to Assume Arab Countries Violate Women’s Rights?

Popular Trends and How They Affect the Problem of Witch Hunting in Zimbabwe

After the wars, investing in infrastructure is they way to stabilise the Middle East

Livingstone’s comments are dangerous for the Jewish community

Invisibility of Atheism: Exploring the Phenomenon of Worldly Religion in Africa

Am I a Radical? Identity Problems in the Electric Generation

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