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Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…nd more strategic than Paris ever imagined. Just listen to Gender Concerns International, headquartered in The Hague, with offices in Pakistan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Myanmar. “What we need is equal responsibility for the climate and equal responsiveness to the climate from both men and women.” I was as astonished at the lack of human rights language as I was about the gender shifts, visible, apparent, mind boggling everywhere in the exhibits…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…tian, and modern ideas about the nature of God, the nature of the Self, and the nature of the human body. 10. Yoga “UN-Bound” In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2014, Narendra Modi called for June 21 to serve as International Yoga Day. Nearly two hundred countries, including the United States, Canada, and China, expressed their support for the proposition, and, on December 11, 2014, the General Assembly app…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as a timely reminder for the global audience of the Winter Olympics of the international pledge, that: “All human beings are born equal in dignity and rights.” NBC also used the Olympics as a hook to review the global anti-gay crusade being waged by American activist Scott Lively. It quotes him telling 1,000 Christians in Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia, last August that there is “a war between Christians and homosexuals.” Uganda: Anglican Lea…

In Sexual Abuse Hearing UN Calls Holy See on Girls’ Reproductive Rights

By Angela Bonavoglia

…she asked. And that was not an isolated situation. As reported by Amnesty International, a media survey found that of girls raped who became pregnant in Nicaragua from 2005 to 2007, nearly 90% were between the ages of 10 and 14. Tomasi ignored the girl in Nicaragua, but addressed “the child forced to abort in Brazil.” Regarding the stepfather’s not being excommunicated for raping a child, he said, “The father should be treated like the mother and…

Are Women “Secondary” in Catholic Church?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…h is out of touch, and as the religiously unaffiliated continue to grow in number, how women—the majority of active church-goers—experience the church is hardly a secondary concern. Gendered church language seems as good a place to start as any. The liturgies of most churches are lousy with sexist godtalk. This is the case well beyond the limited texts in which, arguably, tradition and aesthetics make make gender changes difficult. First on the li…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…f’s story first came to me over the BBC World Service when the attack made international news. During his subsequent persecution by the authorities, he had been in communication with some of my colleagues and friends with the Bengali freethought website Mukto-Mona and the D.C.-based Center for Inquiry, with whose help we eventually connected. Although he said that there were some things he could not discuss, Asif embraced the opportunity to explai…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…the University of West Indies in Mona, Kingston, plays host to The Fourth International Reggae Conference, which organizers are describing as a four-day festivity exploring Jah Music’s global ambassador and his varied legacies. From February 11-14, participants will ponder everything from tribute concerts to political monuments; from documentary films to new novels; and from remixed re-releases to ital beverages. It’ll be all Bob all the time, wh…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…D.C. this week, Katrina Lantos Swett, Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, mentioned the infamous anti-gay “propaganda” law as one of many repressive, anti-democratic laws that have been adopted in Putin’s Russia. She said that laws on “religious freedom” and “extremism” grant special favor to the Orthodox Church while giving the government wide latitude to discriminate against minority religions. That favored stat…

6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…ugly geopolitical alliance against democracy, pluralism and a responsible international architecture. There is no easy insulation from this, of course, and the many indicators of how ugly the near future can be. There’s a chance, though, that those who rose up, and saw their hopes and dreams extinguished by international malice or apathy, their causes hijacked by sectarianism and extremism, will learn a lesson that makes them a more potent oppone…

The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…ese decisions granted such status to an LGBT group for the first time. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission finally prevailed in its three-year effort to obtain the status, a sign “of the shrinking influence of American social conservatives at the United Nations.” Congressional conservatives Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Christopher Smith (R-NJ) — heroes of the religious right — had joined with Muslim countries in an effort to block…