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.
Human Rights & Ethics
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".