by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2015 | Democracy, Human Rights, New Zealand, Religion, Women
The celebration of an International Women’s Day was first proposed at an international socialist women’s conference in August 1910. It was partly inspired by a women’s day celebrated by the Socialist Party of America in New York the previous year....
by Heather Hastie | Oct 24, 2014 | Health, Human Rights, Middle East, Religion
Orla Guerin of the BBC, a reporter I admire greatly, today presented this report about FGM in Egypt. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a way to embed it into this article, but I urge you to go to the link and watch it. It’s only 2:49 long. In the...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 12, 2014 | Health, Human Rights, Religion, Women
There was a window when Reza Aslan had my sympathy. At the end of July Fox News reporter Lauren Green interviewed him about his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Green’s opinion seemed to be that as a Muslim, Aslan had no right to write a book...
