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Feminism
Global Quickies: Dyphteria Makes a Comeback in Spain, Mozambique Legalizes Homosexuality, and Giant Rats Help with Landmines
SPAIN “A six-year-old child who lives in the Catalan city of Olot (Girona) has been admitted to hospital with the first recorded case of diphtheria in Spain since 1986.” Despite free immunization services, the parents had opted not to vaccinate the child. WORLD Ahead of the Women’s World Cup in Canada, national teams had to supply medical confirmation that all…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Ancient Indian Spaceships, Fossils in Creationist’s Basement, and Nepotism in ISIS
NIGERIA In one of his last acts as president, Goodluck Jonathan signs a law that bans FGM and prohibits men from abandoning their wives or children without economic support. UK Rabbis in an orthodox Jewish sect in London say students should be banned from lessons if their mothers drive them to school because women drivers are ‘contrary to the rules…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Diploma Mills, High Heels, and Iron Fish
IRELAND “The same-sex marriage referendum will be comfortably passed, based on early tallies from across the country.” FRANCE “The Cannes Film Festival is facing an angry backlash after it was accused of turning away women from a red-carpet screening for not wearing high heels.” This includes film producer Valeria Richter, who has part of her left foot amputated, being stopped…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Fake Mummies, Abortions in Latin America, and Alt Med
INDIA “A group of Islamists who cut off a teacher’s hand in revenge for “blasphemy” against the Prophet Mohamed have been jailed in India.” EGYPT/UK Scientists at University of Manchester have exposed a scandal at the heart of Ancient Egypt’s animal mummy industry: About a third of the mummies are empty inside. NORWAY “Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law,…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Racist Jewelry, Racist Columnist, and Volcanoes
PAKISTAN “The progressive activist and organizer who ran Pakistan’s first-ever hackathon and led a human rights and a peace-focused nonprofit known as The Second Floor (T2F) was shot dead today by unidentified gunmen in Karachi.” AUSTRALIA “Doctors will be given incentive payments so that parents stick to their children’s vaccination schedule, and the one religious exemption to vaccinations will end,…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Exorcisms, Measles on a Plane, and the Threats of Atheism
MEDITERRANEAN SEA “Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.” WORLD Meet 6 feminists from around the world reporting on life for girls in their countries. AUSTRALIA “Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott has…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Not Just a Number, Red River Women, and Coding in the Slum
KENYA #147notjustanumber: “An open-source social media campaign has begun commemorating those who died in the al-Shabaab terror assault, tweet by tweet” GHANA Girls in a slum in the Ghanaian capital of Accra are being taught to code in a room above a mosque while their parents pray. FRANCE “France has become the latest country to ban excessively skinny models from…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Attacks on Innocent Women, Giving Mom’s Their Names Back, Unchecked Privilege, and Elves
AFGHANISTAN The woman who was brutally killed by a mob last week after being falsely accused of burning pages of the Koran is said to have been arguing with a mullah about his peddling of amulets to women at his shrine. During the argument she was accused of burning the Koran. This week, thousands of Afghans taken the streets to…
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