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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Brave Women, Questionable Police Merit, and More
NIGERIA A local human rights group reports that the young girls kidnapped from a school are being sold into marriage with their Boko Haram abductors for $12. CANADA Calgary and Edmonton have declared a measles outbreak. The outbreak has been linked to dangerously low levels of immunizations. SPAIN Spain’s government is being taken to court over a minister’s decision to…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Polio, Pilots, Astronauts, and much more
PAKISTAN The Pakistan army was asked to assist the civilian government by taking over security of polio eradication teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. More than 30 people working in vaccination teams have been killed in the last two years. UGANDA A Catholic bishop praised the Ugandan Parliament for the Anti-Homosexuality Act that provides life in prison for LGBT people and…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Ice Cream, Birth Control, and Teapots
AFGHANISTAN (From Mary) Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was shot to death by an Afghan policeman while covering the national election. She covered conflicts for more than 20 years, and earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. RWANDA (From Mary) How Rwanda’s Only Ice Cream Shop Challenges Cultural Taboos: in a culture where it’s highly unseemly to eat anything in the…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Atheists as Terrorists, the Dark Side of Lego, and Bad Advice from Witch-Doctors
AFGHANISTAN (from Michael) A reporter tells the story of the changes she has seen in the situation of women in the country in the past 14 years, and the reactions to the woman running for vice-president. UKRAINE (From Mary) What The Simpsons says about Ukraine’s language divide: young people in Eastern Ukraine like being bilingual. They talk in Russian, they…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Fake Doctors, Witch Doctors, and Weird Fan Art
INDIA (From Cerberus40) Preliminary results from new research show only 1-in-24 healthcare providers in India is qualified in modern medicine. That includes alternative medicine providers and fakers, some without any medical training, posing as physicians, even in hospitals. PHILIPPINES (From Michael) Policewomen members of the Women and Children Protection Desk have been in charge of security in some refugee camps…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Outbreaks, Sects, and All You Can Eat Buffets
WORLD Cool (and depressing) interactive map that visually plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines. MALAYSIA (from Kok Sen Wai) After the publication of recent statutory rape statistics, a politician implied that non-Muslims are more tolerant of child rape, hence do not report it as…
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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Demonstrations, Coconuts, and Bended Spoons
NORWAY (From Veronica) Last week’s International Women’s Day saw mobilizations far beyond the traditional women’s movement due to the government’s move to introduce a new law that makes it legal for GPs to refuse to refer women to an abortion provider. SPAIN As in Norway, on International Women’s Day, thousands gathered in demonstrations around the country to protest against the…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Blasphemy, Excess of Legitimate Defense, and no Legoland for Muslims.
UK A Legoland theme park in Windsor, England said it had to cancel an Islamic group’s “fun day” and temporarily close for business following a torrent of abusive threats from right wing extremists. TUNISIA A blogger sentenced to seven years in prison for posting cartoons deemed insulting to the prophet Muhammad in 2012 was pardoned and released from prison. MEXICO…
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