As a non-Muslim living in Singapore, Vivienne Wee has no reason to be affected by Kartika’s whipping sentence. But she is. She felt so strongly about it that she wrote an article entitled MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE: WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT KARTIKA? A founder-member of AWARE, an association of Women for Action and Research , Vivienne, an [...]
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Yes, look at Iran
TWENTY-TWO years after the Iranian Revolution, Zainah Anwar (the writer of the article which I’ve posted below) and I travelled to Iran. We met a wide range of people in government, academia, the religious cricles and NGOs. But the one person I so clearly remember was Zara, a young 21-year-old who hated the government, the [...]
