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Feminism
Global Quickies: No Dancing, No Birth Control, No Abandoning a Faith
IRAN The Iranian government arrested two 23-year-olds for appearing in a music video singing and dancing in support of the Iranian soccer team in the World Cup. SUDAN Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman freed from death row was detained at the airport for allegedly trying to leave the country with fake documents. She’s now been freed again. JAPAN (From Angelina)…
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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Transgender Rights in Canada, Asian Suffragettes in the UK, and Charlatans in the Czech Republic
CANADA The Vancouver school board has voted to enact new guidelines and practices to support transgender students in schools., which includes allowing transgender students to be addressed by the name that corresponds with their own gender identity and allowing them to use bathrooms of their choice. Also CANADA A 12-year-old transgender boy in Alberta has been granted a new birth…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Exoskeletons, Pastafarians, and No Psychic Pandas
(Just two World Cup-related links, I promise.) BRAZIL A Brazilian paraplegic made the first kick of the World Cup using a robotic exoskeleton. It was cool, but they had promised much more. CHINA Panda cubs at an enclosure in China have been forbidden from predicting the scores of the football World Cup. MALAYSIA Seventeen transgender women were arrested…
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Feminism
World Cup Ad Contest: Expecting the Worst
When I was told I was going to be transferred to Brazil for work over a decade ago, I had no idea what to expect. Pretty much the only thing I had heard about that country was “mulheres, samba e futebol” (women, samba, and soccer). That could not be it, could it? Mexico, where I’m from, it’s not about drunk…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Witch Doctors in Soccer, Hunger Games in Thailand, and Discrimination in the Americas
IRELAND (from Amy) Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers. GHANA Ghana’s most influential witch doctor has claimed he is responsible for the knee injury that is threatening Cristiano Ronaldo’s participation at the World Cup. For non-soccer fans: Ghana is in the same classification group as Portugal, whose star player is…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Horrible Crimes, Horrible Punishments, and Some Lighter Links for Not Totally Ruining Your Weekend
INDIA Authorities in northern India have arrested three men, including two police officers, suspected of gang-raping and killing two teenage sisters before hanging their bodies from a mango tree. PAKISTAN A pregnant woman was stoned to death by her family for marrying without their consent. SUDAN The Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy was forced to give…
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Activism
Global Quickies: Skirts, Racists, and Unhappy Arrests
FRANCE (From Mary) Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right Front National, has suggested the deadly virus Ebola could solve the global “population explosion” and by extension Europe’s “immigration problem”. For more on racists and the European Parliament elections, check out this article. FRANCE Hundreds of male students across 27 schools in the city of Nantes turned up to school…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Apostasy, Exorcisms, and Martians
SUDAN A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy for abandoning her religious faith after she married a Christian man. You can listen to Heina talk to the BBC about this and leaving the Muslim faith on this link. TANZANIA Two witch doctors in Tanzania have been arrested after a woman with albinism was hacked to death.…
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