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• Political violence and trauma: Beaten but unbowed February 2, 2012
  PRISON guards beat Mohammed’s head so badly that his eyelids were puffy and purple, and his feet so hard that he could not walk. They hurled abuse and taunts at the 21-year-old Syrian protester. But his sunny resolve was unbroken. “As soon as I can walk, I’m back on the street,” he vowed from his bed in a suburb of Damascus.Violent unrest wreaks havoc on men […]
• Islam and homosexuality: Straight but narrow February 2, 2012
  ONE leaflet showed a wooden doll hanging from a noose and suggested burning or stoning homosexuals. “God Abhors You” read another. A third warned gays: “Turn or Burn”. Three Muslim men who handed out the leaflets in the English city of Derby were convicted of hate crimes on January 20th. One of them, Kabir Ahmed, said his Muslim duty was “to give the message […]
• Neglected tropical diseases: Hot tropic February 2, 2012
  Lovely swimming for children and parasites GLOBAL health campaigns like grand goals. On January 30th Bill Gates joined the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), 13 drug-company executives and others in pledging to eradicate or control by 2020 ten of the world’s nastiest diseases, which afflict more than a billion people. Guinea worm, sleeping sickness […]