marginalization

EU shows how to do a dodgy survey

Anne Fleck | 16 May 2013 |

tags: EU, homophobia, human rights

The EU's largest-ever survey of hate crimes and discrimination against LGBT people claims that they labour under a terrible burden. But the figures don’t support the conclusions.

I’ll drink to that!

Andrea Mrozek | 25 October 2012 |

tags: Canada, pro-life movement

In Canada, two pro-life jailbirds have been awarded Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medals.

Will “choice” trump even gendercide?

Margaret Somerville | 03 October 2012 |

tags: Canada, sex selective abortions

A new page in Canada’s abortion debate will force pro-choice politicians to decide just how non-negotiable their position is.

Barefoot power lights up rural Africa

Izael Pereira Da Silva and Boldewijn Sloet | 17 September 2012 |

tags: Africa, development, solar energy

Two Australian entrepreneurs are behind a company that is transforming lives at the bottom of the social pyramid.

The human rights and wrongs of “Innocence of Muslims”

Sarah Joseph | 14 September 2012 |

tags: hate speech, Middle East, Muslims, USA

Should the United States have banned the film that has caused ructions in the Middle East as hate speech?

Religion has its rights in the public square

David Cortman | 09 May 2012 |

tags: religious freedom

There are no historical or rational grounds for denying faith a public voice.

Parenthood is not just a private project

Jennifer Roback Morse | 23 April 2012 |

tags: marriage, parenthood, rights of the child

The state’s role in marriage is essential to protect the rights of children against the mere wilfulness of adults.

Whatever happened to British common sense?

Joanna Bogle | 15 March 2012 |

tags: Britain, religious freedom

The Tory-led government is taking sides against Christians who want wear a small cross at work.

A musical path out of poverty

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 March 2012 |

tags: El Sistema, music, poverty

A visionary Venezuelan programme for social development is catching on around the world.

Why bullycide is on the increase

Izzy Kalman | 02 March 2012 |

tags: bullying, resilience, suicide

Bullying-related suicide will not decrease as long as we glorify the victims with magazine covers and laws in their name.

Death on wheels

Paul Russell | 09 December 2011 |

tags: euthanasia, Netherlands

A Dutch MP thinks mobile euthanasia units are worth considering.

Understanding Somalia

Ioan M Lewis | 10 October 2011 |

tags: famine, government, Somalia

Behind the devastating famine is a profoundly decentralised society with no effective national government.

Margaret Ogola: an African heroine

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 September 2011 |

tags: Africa, AIDS, heroes

One of four distinguished Kenyan women who died recently was a doctor who spent herself on the welfare of AIDS victims and strengthening the African family.

No standing: what marriage radicals really think of “the people”

Jennifer Roback Morse | 16 September 2011 |

tags: law, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage

Is it same-sex marriage rights they want, or a revolution in the American legal system?

The birth of the Berlin Wall

Sue Alexander-Barnes | 12 August 2011 |

tags: Berlin Wall, Communism

It appeared literally overnight, and kept East Germans imprisoned for more than a quarter of a century.

Youth in search of inspiration

Francois Jacob | 26 July 2011 |

tags: Catholic Church, UN, World Youth Day

The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.

Who are the real fundamentalists?

Gudrun Kugler | 19 July 2011 |

tags: fundamentalism, religious freedom, secularism

Secularists who want to evict religion from the public square are strong contenders for the label.

Fundamental rights - or fundamental confusion?

Gudrun Kugler | 07 May 2011 |

tags: discrimination, European Union, human rights

Voicing an opinion at a human rights forum can be a scary business.

France’s faceless women

Abdullah Saeed | 14 April 2011 |

tags: face veil, France, Islam

Seldom do we object when people wear less in public. Why are the French so riled when some women want to wear more?

Marriage 101

Mary Joseph | 10 March 2011 |

tags: marriage, same-sex marriage

What is so special about marriage between a man and a woman that same-sex couples are not allowed to share in it?

Mass torture in America

Lance Tapley | 18 February 2011 |

tags: human rights, prisons, torture

There's Guantanamo Bay, and then there are America's supermax prisons, where tens of thousands of citizens are kept in solitary confinement.

Europe’s marginalised Christians

Gudrun Kugler | 24 January 2011 |

tags: Christianity, interviews, intolerance

Are intolerance and discrimination against Christians a real problem in Europe? An Austrian lawyer says 'Yes'.

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