marginalization

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, heroines

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'.

Page 1 of 1 :