[ 2 minutes to read] Nigerian activist Mariam Aliyu answered the UN’s call during her university years when she saw a little girl she could not ignore. “She was 12 years old, and I noticed she was limping,” she recalled. Using her medical skills, and days of earning the girl’s trust, she figured out that she had been sexually assaulted. So began a journey of advocating for girls and women.
[ 2 minutes to read] On Oct. 12, 2022, a video began circulating on Twitter showing a Russian military officer giving…
[ 2 minutes to read] ConfusedHeathen (CH) was an Egyptian assigned female-at-birth trans person. By all accounts, he should be celebrated…
[ 2 minutes to read] Gone but not forgotten In the east of Toronto’s downtown, visitors will find a buzzing neighborhood…
[ 5 minutes to read] Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in his heyday” by Doc Kazi is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
[ 4 minutes to read] Modern day Secularism Secularism is freedom of religion. In a free and democratic society, people are…
[ 2 minutes to read] America prides itself as the shining beacon of democracy, and its president is regarded as the…
[ 4 minutes to read] War hero, reformer, enlightened leader, tyrant. The shape Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes will always differ from…
[ 3 minutes to read] Pakistan, ostensibly, is a democracy that protects the rights of all citizens. While the country is…
[ 2 minutes to read] I recently spoke to a Turkish friend and in our conversation she said something surprising. She…
[ 3 minutes to read] The above image falls under CC BY-NC 2.0 license and was taken by the Flickr user lewishamdreamer….
[ 3 minutes to read] Muslim-Canadian Fatemeh Anvari’s world was turned upside down last week. The Quebecer was reassigned from her…
[ 2 minutes to read] “Carl Sagan” is currently hiding in Peshawar, Pakistan. After the Taliban took over Afghanistan last…
[ 2 minutes to read] The above photo is under license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The image was created by daarkfire. On…
[ 4 minutes to read] I recently read this wonderful Washington Post article about how the LGBTQ often find an outlet…
[ < 1 minute to read] Feedspot is a media contact database. Recently, they contacted us to let us know that the…
[ 2 minutes to read] The above image is of children at a residential school in Brandon, Manitoba. The photo belongs…
[ 5 minutes to read] Those looking to immigrate to the United States are now in luck. As of Oct. 2,…
[ 3 minutes to read] Hindu sisters Reena and Raveena likely never intended to be at the center of a national…
[ 2 minutes to read] Math teacher Celine’s story of awakening is one of the oldest. She had been told throughout…
