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In Bangladesh, women whose actions fall foul of religious conventions have long been subject to punishment by fatwa. Sara Hossain hopes her trailblazing work can tip the balance back in favour of the secular legal system

From: Defence Committee defendgnsaibaba[at]gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:50 PM Subject: Invitation for the United Protest on 2nd January 2016
United Protest against the Re-arrest of Dr. GN Saibaba and the charge of contempt of court against Arundhati Roy
Date: Saturday, 2nd January 2016 Time: 12 noon onwards Venue: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
Dr. GN Saibaba, an English professor at Ram Lal Anand College of Delhi University, a democratic rights activist and a fierce critic of the (…)

In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.

I am still unable to understand the desperate desire in the Western democratic Left to appease and coddle the most regressive aspects of the conservative Muslim right.

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, born in 1930, passed away on December 23 at a hospice in Oakland, California, with her husband, intellectual partner and scholarly co-writer of more than 60 years, Lloyd I. Rudolph, by her side.