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Women have crashed through prejudices in the last 25 years, but some of us have chosen happiness over hard-won careers.
Aung San Suu Kyi knows all too well how Buddhism has played a major political role throughout Asia, both for good and bad.
Back in the heady days of 1970s feminism there was an argument that once women achieved political power, there would be no more war.
A campaign to clean up electronic companies’ mineral supply chains may ameliorate the chaos of ungovernable mining.
The US secretary of state’s pledge to invest in cleaner fuel-efficient stoves will save lives and protect the environment.
The Ugandan minister for primary healthcare tells Madeleine Bunting of his ambitions for the country.
The figures tell their own extraordinary story. In 1974 an economics lecturer at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, lent $27 to a group of impoverished villagers. He went…
The swearing-in of Nicolas Sarkozy as French president on May 18 may mark, as he claims, a dramatic break with France’s political past; but less heralded was the equally stark…
Atheism sells. Richard Dawkins has been in the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic since The God Delusion came out last autumn following Daniel Dennett’s success with…
Here’s a dream. It’s the 2009 G7 summit and the photo call of the seven world leaders. All eyes are trained on the trio of women at the centre of the group: the United States…
To drive by moonlight down the Cape Peninsula’s western shore, and to be lost in that silvery no-man’s-land night between stone-pine and kelp forest, is to be reminded of how…
There’s an advert emblazoned on the sides of London double-decker buses for a computer game: ”Paste your girlfriend’s white bits here.” Another irritating sexualisation of public…
By the time you get into bed tonight, more people will have died brutal deaths in Iraq. The toll in the two weeks after the destruction of the Samarra mosque was 500, which…
To real enthusiasts — they call themselves transhumanists — humanity is on the point of being liberated from its biology. They believe that humans are on the brink of a huge leap…
In the sandy compound of his extended family’s home, six-year-old Manuel Rafael is playing with his cousins. He doesn’t know he is HIV-positive, and doesn’t understand his…
Governments across the Muslim world are irritated by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s forthright criticism of their lack of democracy and free speech, yet he is consulted by leaders…
Ask a woman if she is ambitious and you either get a short, horrified ”no”, or a long speech in which the word is defined, redefined, qualified and explained. After a generation…
Call me naïve, but I thought it was possible that 2005 could achieve even more than a historic breakthrough deal on debt relief and aid for Africa. The conjunction of this key…
A recent survey found that 31% of British people thought Easter was sponsored by Cadbury’s, while 48 % had no idea what the religious festival was about. The survey adds to…
The issue of aid and how it’s being played on our television screens reminds us what this war is all about. Not oil, not weapons of mass destruction, but a demonstration of…
