Natasha Walter, acclaimed British feminist campaigner, today claimed that women still need feminism.  She said feminism had changed and women today did have the freedom to be what they wanted, but were still in more need than ever of feminism due to ‘real and urgent' challenges women still faced. I could not agree more with Walter on one thing - that the challenges women face today are without a doubt,…

On 16 December a 23-year-old paramedic student was raped on a moving bus in Delhi, by six heavily drunk men who brutalized and tortured the victim for about an hour, and then threw her out from the moving bus. After struggling for her life in a Singapore hospital for many days, she succumbed to her injuries and died. The incident has triggered a tsunami of protests not just in the…

Thursday, 22/11/2012, President Mohamed Morsi issued a constitutional declaration that included the re-trial of those who killed rebels (of the revolution), the looking after the casualties of the revolution, the protection of the Constituent Assembly and the Shura Council against dissolution, and - for a period of no more than two months - to give immunity to the president's decisions from being reversed, as well as the dismissal of the…

I was on the phone speaking to someone in Nigeria and in the middle of the conversation, they asked about the news regarding Jimmy Savile. Oh dear, it seems the Jimmy Savile fiasco is now global news. The past few weeks have seen a UK ‘national treasure' go from hero to zero. National treasure is used to refer to someone who is much loved, revered and respected in the UK.…