Originally published on The Daily Censored for Project Censored Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler is about to release a comprehensive study on the U.S. government and media’s role in censoring WikiLeaks. The forthcoming report , to appear in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, is titled “A Free Irresponsible Press: WikiLeaks and the […]
Egyptian Blogger Orders Artificial Hymen By Mail: What He Received
When Radio Netherlands broadcasted an Arabic translation of the Artificial Virginity Hymen kit (Gigimo), when Youm7 newspaper announced that the product will be available on the Egyptian market for LE 83, when conservative parliament members in Egypted wanted the product banned and any exporter exiled or beheaded, and when it caused such an uproar in the Egyptian blogosphere, Mohamed Al […]
A reminder to AIDS Pandemic in Darjeeling!
BY BARUN ROY Darjeeling on the verge of AIDS Pandemic’. The story had revolved around an investigation that had revealed that the HIV positive cases in the Hills and especially Darjeeling had exploded to a four digit number. And this was only four years after the first HIV case had been acknowledged in Darjeeling. The […]
Dowry
Dower: A basic marital right of women Shah Md. Mushfiqur Rahman What is dower? Dower is one of the basic legal rights of a Muslim wife. In Islamic law dower is a sum of money or other property to be paid to the wife in consideration of the marriage. Though Muslim marriage is in the […]
Why Women Don’t Marry The Men Who Disvirgined Them.
Only 3% of all married women married the men who deflowered them. A dream borne at dawn is not necessarily that which comes true at dusk! "We were separated by time, reason and location. I know not where he is now or what he has become." Said Mary Takora, a South African 62-year-old […]
Brazil: Bloggers United Against WordPress Ban
by Paula Góes The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on WordPress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Gabriela Zabo [pt] explains why: O motivo é uma decisão judicial expedida em março, que […]