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Pragna Patel, founding member of Southall Black Sisters and an NSS honorary associate, discusses past and future battles on gender violence, criminal justice
and religious fundamentalism.
Iranian officials have warned that posting video footage of women removing their mandatory headscarves in public could lead to up 10 years imprisonment,
according to media reports yesterday.
Terminally ill adults in the US state of New Jersey will be able to decide when it's time to die from today, when the state begins allowing patients to
self-administer lethal drugs.
State secondary schools are refusing to implement a directive which requires them to provide students who opt out of religious instruction with access to
another subject.
The first six months of the year saw the highest number of antisemitic incidents ever recorded in the UK in the same period of any year, according to a new
report by the Community Security Trust.
China has ordered the removal of Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from halal restaurants and food stalls in the latest crackdown on its Muslim
population.
The Roman Catholic diocese of Manchester in the US state of New Hampshire has released a list of priests accused of sexually abusing children. Survivors have
criticised the list as it provides no details of the allegations or the dates when the events happened.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo has denied being concerned about the rise of fundamentalism in his country, saying that the Islam practiced there is
tolerant and progressive.
The current wave of religious protests outside schools began with objections to the No Outsiders scheme of work. As its author prepares to give the NSS's
Bradlaugh Lecture, Megan Manson asks what the fuss was about.
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