Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries [...]
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IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount [...]
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[AMARTYA SEN is Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University and former Lamont University Professor at Harvard. This article is a revised version of the Commencement Address given at Bard College on May 24, 1997. It originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, Summer 98, Vol. 20 [...]
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Jim Al-Khalili
Published: 12:01AM GMT 29 Jan 2008
For 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic
The untold story of Arabic brilliance should be a timely reminder of a proud heritage, says Jim Al-Khalili
Next year, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th of the publication of his On The [...]
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On the Strandline
Posted by: Amy Palko in Creativity
We are beachcombers. We two cast our gaze wide over the strandline, plundering shingle and shale for treasure hidden in plain sight. The gradations of blue on the shells of bicuspids, the frosted smoothness of oncewerebottles glass, a couple of oh-so-precious cowrie shells and a piece [...]
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Mrs Barnabas and I had a pleasant interlude on Sunday just gone. We took a walk along the great Hurst Spit to Hurst Castle (not to be confused with Hearst Castle in California) on the Hampshire coast just across the Solent from the Isle of Wight.
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Henry VIII built the original Hurst [...]
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Trial of seven imprisoned Bahá’í Leaders postponed
GENEVA – The trial of seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders has been postponed until 18 October, the Baha’i International Community learned today.
According to Diane Ala’i, the Bahá’í International Community representative to the United Nations in Geneva, following a request for [...]
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Iran Bahais face espionage trial
It is not clear how long the trial of the seven Bahais will last
Seven members of the Bahai faith in Iran are to go on trial on Tuesday on charges of spying for Israel and of “insulting sanctities”.
Six of the Bahais were arrested in May, 2008. The other one was arrested [...]
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http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International have just issued an Urgent Action Appeal on behalf of the seven members of the Iranian Baha’i community’s former coordinating group, known as the Yárán or the Friends.
MEMBERS OF BAHA’I FAITH FACE UNFAIR TRIAL Seven members of Iran’s Baha’i religious community may face the death penalty at a trial that could begin around [...]
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12 August 2009
GENEVA — In yet another example of the denial to Baha’is in Iran of their rights to justice, including due process, judicial officials have reportedly set next Tuesday as the trial date for seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders – despite the fact that the lead lawyers registered with the court to represent them are [...]
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