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Global Quickies: Major Sins, Unlucky Buildings, and Nazi Tatoos
CANADA “A Muslim police chaplain has faced criticism after he reportedly said women commit “a major sin” if they refuse to have sex with their husbands.” FRANCE “Staff at some of Paris’s most high-profile political and cultural offices stopped work at 4.34pm on Monday in solidarity with a protest against women being paid less than men.” WORLD “Young Syrian refugee…
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Global Quickies: Divine Retribution, Doorless Dorms, and Women Who Make Noise
ISRAEL / ITALY “An Israeli lawmaker’s suggestion that a pair of earthquakes in Italy were divine retribution for Italy’s abstention from the recent UNESCO vote ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount has sparked an international outcry.” IRAN “Ace shooter Heena Sidhu has pulled out of the Asian Airgun Shooting Championship to be held in Tehran in December this year.…
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Global Quickies: Pay Gap Protest, Forbiden Dance Moves, and Useless, Harmful Remedies
ICELAND (From Ray) “Even in Iceland, the country many experts consider the world’s leader in gender equity, the gender pay gap persists. Women employees make 14 to 18 percent less than men in Iceland — a discrepancy that unions and women’s organizations say means women effectively work for free after 2:38 pm. On Monday, in protest of the pay gap,…
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Global Quickies: Male Privilege at School, Pardons in the UK, and Bad TV Presenters
TUNISIA “A popular Tunisian talk show has been suspended after its presenter appeared to tell a young female guest to marry the man she accuses of raping her, and suggested she was to blame.” INDONESIA “Indonesia could “wipe out” paedophilia with its new policy of chemical castration, President Joko Widodo has told the BBC. […] Indonesia passed controversial laws earlier…
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Global Quickies: Gender Pay Gap in Europe, Religious Training for Police, and Superstitious Fasting
INDIA “Indian police are investigating the parents of a 13-year-old girl who died last week after undertaking a religious fast for 68 days.” MOROCCO “In Morocco, it’s not easy for women to walk the streets unmolested.” IRAN “A child bride is facing execution for the murder of her husband after giving birth to a stillborn baby in prison. […]During her…
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Global Quickies: Poland Rejects Anti-Abortion Bill, Honor Killing Loophole Closed, and Antivaxxers in Romania
POLAND “Poland’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to reject a controversial citizens’ bill for a near-total ban on abortion. The government said that protests against the bill had given ministers “food for thought”. Poland already has among the tightest abortion laws in Europe, and the proposal sought to ban all abortions unless the mother’s life was at risk.” UK “The plight…
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Global Quickies: Writer Killed for Offensive Cartoon, A Racist Roast, and Cancelled Pride
JORDAN “A gunman has shot dead prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam.” HAITI “Organisers have called off a festival celebrating Haiti’s Afro-Caribbean lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community because of threats of violence and government opposition.” RUSSIA “Russia is moving towards banning “baby boxes” –…
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Global Quickies: Stalkers, Anti-Abortion Bill in Poland, and Women Voting for the First Time
POLAND “Rightwing lawmakers are pushing ahead with a near-total ban on abortion in devoutly Catholic Poland, while rejecting a rival bid to liberalise an existing law which is already among the most restrictive in Europe.” BOTSWANA “Botswana is to deport controversial US pastor Steven Anderson after he said on a local radio that homosexuals should be “stoned to death”.” GHANA…
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