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Muslim Women Complicit in their Repression?

Sajda Khan | Posted 13.06.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Muslim World, Rights, Islam, Muslim Women, Repression, Islamophobia, Egalitarian, Prophet Muhammad, Iraq, God, Patriarchy, John Stuart Mill, Misogynist, Laura Bush, Qur'An, Colonial, Oppression, Feminists, Afghanistan, UK Universities & Education News
Sajda Khan

When I was a first year undergraduate student, my psychology lecturer told me that Muslim women were complicit in their own repression and did not know what it was like to be liberated. As a student of humanities and social sciences I gauged that his views were conspicuously grounded in the litany of anecdotal sources cited by the media.

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Burma's Violation of Rights Against Peaceful Protestors

Tasnim Nazeer | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Burma, Repression, Human Rights Watch, Activism, Protest, Activist, Peace, UK Politics News
Tasnim Nazeer

The authorities in Burma should drop charges against activists who participated in peaceful protests against government policies.

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Can a Four-Year-Old Recall Her Family's Murderers? Alpine Executions and Psychology of Childhood

Dr Raj Persaud | Posted 07.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Psychiatry, Family Feud, Alpine, Psychology, Sigmund Freud, Repression, French Alps Car Shooting, Child Psychiatry, Alpine Murder, UK News
Dr Raj Persaud

It's been found young children have much earlier recollections than adults do of their childhood. Two-year-olds can describe memories of personal events that happened months earlier. Yet, most of these reminiscences eventually become obscured over time.

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What the Repression of Downton Abbey Can Teach Us...

Louisa Leontiades | Posted 21.10.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Great Tv, Downton Abbey, Drama, Repression, Shame, Honour, UK Entertainment News
Louisa Leontiades

Living abroad my boyfriend and I subscribe to Love Film to get our fix of British and American TV.

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Beijing - An Arrest in Tiananmen Square and an Offer of Exciting Sex

John Fleming | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK
Read More: 1984, Prostitution, Repression, Mao, Police, Advertising, Beijing, Protest, Sex Tiananmen, China, UK News
John Fleming

I am in Beijing but, this morning, it felt like I was home in London when a taxi driver took me on a 12-minute round trip in the opposite direction to...

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil: Google and Twitter's Free Society Is Crumbling

Jade Lane | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Egypt Protests, Freedom of Speech, Google, Politics, Internet, Blogger, Arab Spring, Repression, Protest, Free Speech, Technology, UK Tech News
Jade Lane

For better or worse, the notoriety of the internet stepped up a notch last year. Civil unrest was a common theme in the news - not just here in the UK, but throughout the world - the US had the Occupy movements, we had 'the riots' and of course, Arabic countries had the Arab Spring. The resounding driving force behind these events? Social networking.

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