A feminist march for abortion marking International Women’s Day in Mexico city turned violent on Sunday, as protesters attacked churches and clashed with police.
To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
Things looked very bad for the old Arctic Sea Ice back in 2007. If you don’t remember, that was the year that Al Gore won the nobel prize for his important work in highlighting the plight of the poor Polar Bear, which was, he said, doomed to live in a virtually ice-free arctic circle by […]
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled against legalising abortion on demand in the country. The court undertook a review of the country’s abortion laws when a magistrate issued a formal proposal that abortion on demand in the first 16th week of pregnancy be made lawful. On Monday, the court ruled against extending abortion provision, which had been […]
A decision to rebrand International Women’s Week so as to make it fully inclusive to transgender people has been slammed by women’s rights group. They say the latest push for inclusivity is “excluding and erasing women from our own movement”. The controversy arose after Leicester University students’ union decided to rename the long-established celebration of women […]
A new sci-fi movie featuring a sexual relationship between a man and a robot that looks like a 10-year-old girl has sparked walkouts and complaints at a Berlin film festival.
The alleged assailant, Austin Sauer, is reported to have had non-penetrative, non-consensual sexual contact with the victim and was arrested.
The scale of the migrant crisis on the Greek border with Turkey is hard to put into context for an Irish audience. Already there are mumblings and grumblings of discontent in Ireland about the number of Asylum seekers, and controversy about their housing. 10,000 homeless people, when the country hit that milestone figure, was regarded […]
A 23-year-old woman is taking legal action against an NHS clinic because she was not challenged more by staff to avoid gender reassignment treatment as a teenager.
Räsänen, who has been a member of parliament since 1995, has been accused of “hate speech” after questioning the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland’s official partnership with “Pride 2019”.
As we noted on Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden was expected to triumph in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, and sure enough, triumph he did. His victory was not a surprise – but the margin of it certainly was: Former Vice President Joe Biden had a big night in South Carolina, showing his promised strength […]
The campaign against the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter saw a Supreme Court case, vandalism, and dead rats nailed to the door of the shelter. The city council of Vancouver this week voted to withdraw its funding from Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, which has helped victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault […]