Every 20 minutes, there is a rape in India

"[Indian] judiciary is interested in regulating women's sexuality and judging them rather than offering them justice," 

Central Tibetan Administration “Tibetans ‘minoritized’ by China face imposition of Mandarin”

“Tibetans are deprived of learning their own language on their own land; Tibetans are deprived of teaching their own language on their own land- if this is not human rights violations then what is.”

440 High Heels Installed on Giant Wall to Honor Female Victims of Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is the crime that causes the highest number of deaths in Portugal

Domestic violence is the crime against people that causes the highest number of deaths in Portugal. It is widely known that the vast majority of domestic violence victims are women,

Four girls are raped every hour in Brazil

In Brazil, four girls under 13 are raped every hour and every two minutes police receive a report of violence against women

What is domestic violence and abuse?

When people think of domestic abuse, they often focus on domestic violence. But domestic abuse includes any attempt by one person in an intimate relationship or marriage to dominate and control the other. 

Women’s Business

When Moaveni asks her subjects why they went to Syria despite reports of cruel punishments and repression of women, they say they didn’t believe what they heard. Nour, the Tunisian, provides some of the most detailed testimony. Suspended from school for wearing a hijab, she is drawn to an extremist mosque and becomes close to young men who seem to respect her and who provide her with a theological justification for ISIS ideology. When the Islamist political party she favors is banned, the obvious answer is to go to Syria, where she and her husband hope they can live by their religious beliefs. To her, “the crucifixions and sex slave markets were the fanciful propaganda of the group’s opponents.” According to Moaveni, Nour regarded the media as the tool of an oppressively secular Tunisian state, while Islamist women in the West filtered out information from news sources that they saw as anti-Muslim—in other words, most media. Like those Americans who discount everything from sources deemed “fake news,” they simply dismissed information that contradicted what they wanted to believe.

Deliberate policy to injure protesters points to responsibility of those in command

The intention of the Chilean security forces is clear: to injure demonstrators in order to discourage protest, even to the extent of using torture and sexual violence against protesters.

The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes

Vija Celmins: ‘I Just Look, and Paint’

Celmins offers artworks with no focal point, no hierarchy, no instruction about this bit being more important than that bit.

Daphne murder: 17 Black owner Yorgen Fenech arrested

17 Black was identified in a leaked e-mail as one of two sources of income for the Panama companies Hearnville and Tillgate, which were set up by Office of the Prime Minister consultants Nexia BT for Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister's chief of staff Keith Schembri.

Riccardo Chailly: a conductor should know all the forms of composition

I did study a course of composition in Perugia and then later in Milan – it’s unavoidable that a conductor should know all the forms of composition. But I always had a fascination with the sound of a symphony orchestra, since my youth because of the idea of the magic that can be produced by this enormous human instrument with so many different sources of sound.

There Is Growing Evidence that Our Universe Is a Giant Hologram

If this depiction of space is correct, then like any computer, there is an inherent limit to the universe’s data storage and processing capacity.

A Letter to Flower and Crown (Parwana Fayyaz)

with a hope that someone will help on the other side,
offering them shelter to rest for the night.
I first heard the story about the women fleeing
and losing their ways in crossing the valleys –

"A black sun rises in the West of me" (Toby Martinez de las Rivas)

city where the lamb lights hís terrible

mercy in to worldis of worldis, forever & ever

& hís government will never fail, for no glory

is allowed but hís glory, no bone

gouvernance but hís bone gouvernance,

no prison camp but hís prison camp,

hís plantations, hís will & techne, hís punishment

beatings, hís censorship, hís textual criticism,

Why Space Radiation Matters

White Phosphorous Use in Northern Syria

The Times of London implied that the OPCW chose not to investigate the use of White Phosphorus (WP) due to political expediency: “The suspicion is that the OPCW’s reluctance to investigate reflects western hesitancy to embarrass a Nato member at a time when relations with Turkey are strained.” 

Lisbon Web Summit shocks with €850 sweater and €780 jumper

People are confused as to why Web Summit, an annual technology conference in Lisbon, is charging hundreds of euros for its clothing.

Scientists create 'artificial leaf' that turns carbon dioxide into fuel

Scientists have created an “artificial leaf” to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into a useful alternative fuel.

Poorly planned Amazon dam project 'poses serious threat to life'

Environmentalists and scientists warned this would devastate one of the world’s most unique biodiversity hotspots. Economists questioned the viability of a scheme paid for with pension funds and tax revenues, but which is designed to run at only 40% of its 11,200MW capacity. Prosecutors involved in the Car Wash corruption investigation found Belo Monte contractors were paid inflated fees in return for kickbacks to political parties.

Ghost Gear

there is one particular type of plastic pollution that is especially deadly because it is specifically designed to catch and kill marine wildlife: Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear, or so-called ‘ghost gear’.