by Sean Reilly | Nov 8, 2007
Student Umedjon Sharifov uses blow-up dolls in his voluntary work for a Tajikistani non-governmental organization around the Central Asian country’s third-largest city of Kulob and he shows videos against domestic violence to men and women – writes Peter...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 1, 2007
Religion and culture are abused when they are employed illegitimately to justify the suppression of women and the denial of their equal humanity, human rights lawyer Chrie Booth argued yesterday in a lecture at Chatham House in London. Ms Booth, who is married to...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 1, 2007
The heated row over abortion continued last night after an official report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (S&TC), released yesterday, said there was no scientific justification for calls to lower the 24-week limit for terminations. But...
by Sean Reilly | Oct 31, 2007
Archbishop Celestino Maggiore, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, has said that global sustainability should be a priority for the nations of the world. He was speaking on Monday 29 October 2007 in New York, USA, before the second committee...
