Four men in South Africa have been sentenced for the murder of a 19-year-old lesbian woman. She was stabbed and stoned to death in 2006. The court found that the girl was targeted due to her sexual orientation. Cases like this sadly are not uncommon in South Africa. The Human Rights Watch claimed that ...
Canada’s controversial honour killing trial has ended with a conviction of murder in the first degree for Montreal’s Shafia family. Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Shafia and their son Hamed were found guilty Sunday of murdering three sisters and the father’s first wife. They were sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 25 years. A recent ...
With the Shafia honour killings case ongoing in Canadian courts, it’s important to look at why women take part in abusing, or even killing, other women. Tooba Yahya, accused with her son, Hamed Shafia, and husband, Mohammad Shafia, of the murder of her three teenage daughters and husband’s ex-wife, is becoming a familiar face. Yahya ...
In Maryland, two doctors are now facing murder charges after allegedly providing late-term abortions to five patients. During the 16-month investigation, authorities found that Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley initiated abortions in a New Jersey clinic (owned by Brigham) by giving pregnant women preliminary injections, and they then finished the procedures in Maryland. Women should ...
A UN inquiry was announced today investigating the huge number of Aboriginal women that have gone missing in Canada. According to The Native Women’s Association of Canada more than 600 women have gone missing or been murdered since 1990 and this is a direct violation of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ...
The majority of women will experience violence in their lives, most before the age of 25. Violence against women is one of the world’s most pervasive problems, and yet it is rarely in the spotlight. Tomorrow it is. December 6th is Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The date commemorates ...
David Kato was murdered in January this year in what was a controversial case. He was an active gay rights activist in Uganda, a country where homosexuality is illegal and where a bill is waiting to be decided on that will give the death penalty for being gay or for having HIV. Other activists claimed ...
It’s Hallowe’en, a magical day characterized by Trick or Treating and masked personas, a practice that hails from the medieval custom of souling, when poor people would go door to door for food in return for prayers for the dead. We lavish in ghostly tales and watch gory movies about satanic clowns from the sixth ...
Robert Pickton was convicted of killing six women when it’s believed that he could have murdered another 27. So where are his missing victims? Perhaps they’re forever lost, but we must continue to find out why so many crimes of violence against women weren’t properly investigated. The BC Missing Women Inquiry was commissioned to give ...
Dear Madame X, My husband earns a lot of money and supports me and my children really comfortably. He has always been very loving and supportive of our family. However, he has begun to hint that he should be able to sleep with other women, since he is providing so well for us. I think ...
There has been an upswing in royal fever on both sides of the Atlantic since last April. When Kate...
Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...
It is one of the oldest institutions in the world. Most humans are actively engaged in it as I...
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
