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• Call witchcraft belief in Africa by its name: superstition

  The campaign against witch allegation has been hampered by evangelical agendas and mistaken ideas around cultural sensitivity.

• Blaming Muslims for the virus is playing with fire

  India’s Hindu nationalist government is using Covid-19 to ramp up already dangerous levels of Islamophobia

• Thousands were released in Iran, but not atheist prisoner Soheil Arabi

  The activist and blogger sentenced to blasphemy is on hunger strike

• Syria's worst crisis is being met with cynicism

  As the war in Syria enters a terrifying end-game phase, Europe refuses to engage with what may be the biggest humanitarian disaster of this century.

• Perestroika in Central Asia?

  Following the death of the late Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, reform is finally in the air.

• "There is no valid race science because race is not a valid scientific concept"

  Q&A with Angela Saini, author of "Superior: The Return of Race Science".

• Feminism’s history wars

  Millicent Fawcett is now honoured in Westminster, but what about the women who saw their fight as part of a wider struggle?

• How secular feminists are caught in the middle

  Have religious fundamentalists and western Islamophobes alike eroded vital breathing space for secular feminists in Pakistan?

• The radical history of trousers

  It has been a long, uncomfortable journey for women to win the freedom to choose what they wear.

• "China is actively exporting its model of the internet"

  Q&A with James Griffiths, author of "The Great Firewall of China".