SANA’A: Although the government is unwilling to admit that AIDS is a social and health issue that Yemen needs to deal with, many officials are still reluctant to speak of the deadly infectious disease as much stigma is attached to the condition. However, Doctor Abdel-Mageed Kulaib who runs a private hospital in Aden, told Bikyamasr.com [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Aisha walks quickly down the sidewalk. She is late for work. So is Samira. The two women appear as complete opposites, one wearing a hijab, or headscarf, while the other is in a slick business suit, a skirt just hitting below her knees, with no leggings. “This is what we want Malaysia to [...]
Cairo – Saudi Arabia has announced it will re-open its embassy in Egypt, after closing it in late April due to massive protests. The conflict began when Ahmed al-Gizawi, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, was arrested in April by Saudi security forces upon arriving in the country to take part in the umrah, an Islamic [...]
CAIRO: Khaled Ali, Egypt’s possible next president, has told Bikyamasr.com that that his plan to govern Egypt is based on the basis of social justice for every Egyptian, confirming quick steps if is stepping in his first steps as a new president of Egypt. “My first decision will be canceling the peace treaty with Israel,” [...]
Iranian authorities killed Makwan Mouloudzadeh on December 5, 2007. Six months earlier, a court had convicted Mouloudzadeh — a youth of Kurdish descent from near Kermanshah — of raping others three boys when he was 13. However, his accusers retracted their claims; no evidence against him remained. In November, Iran’s chief justice had overturned the death [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: At this small mosque on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur the message is tolerance and understanding. In a country where religious conservatism has grown in recent years, Sheikh Yussif hopes that through dialogue, Malaysians can come together for a better future. “We all want the same things in Malaysia, a better life, a [...]
Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh sparked a media frenzy this week when he lashed out, calling Israel a “racist” threat. His words received the usual condemnation from Western commentators, who attempted to paint Aboul Fotouh as “yet another Arab who attacks Israel.” Was he really “just another Arab” attacking Israel? No, he was [...]
KATHMANDU: A slow walk, the leather jacket and the dark skin. The young man sneaks in a “you want smoke, man,” in Kathmandu’s touristy Thamel district. Usually it is only marijuana or hashish, not worth the police’s effort to crack down upon. However, the man doesn’t stop, plopping down on the sidewalk and pushing a [...]
CAIRO: His presidential campaign slogan is “One of Us,” and Hamdeen Sabahi is optimistic that his campaign will yield results in the upcoming presidential election in Egypt. In an interview with Bikyamasr.com, Sabahi said his campaign is for all Egyptians, and hopes his message of inclusion resonates with the people. “As a new president for [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s liberal leaning Free Egyptians Party declared its support for the calls and demands by women’s rights organizations and NGOs in the country, which have called for woman’s rights. The party also said it stands against “the phenomenon of sexual harassment” and called for the passing of a law criminalizing the act. The party [...]
LUMBINI and KATHMANDU, Nepal: Crossing the rickety steel wire bridge, Sheikh Islam puts his arm forward, showing the expanse of the valley that unfolds here in the Kathmandu Valley just south of Bandipur, a few hours from Nepal’s capital city. “We are Muslim, but we are Nepali as well,” the sheikh, the local community leader [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Gay television characters can be a mode to tolerance and understanding, say Malaysia’s LGBT community. But the government disagrees, and they barred gay television characters from being shown on the country’s airwaves last month, in a move that has activists frustrated that the government is pushing the conservative tide against the community. “We [...]
It is easy to forget that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the ultra-conservative al-Nour Party won a democratic vote in Egypt. Yes, they won fair and square. Quite sad really. The media, and the online activist community – those who love to shout – have been quick to point at the [...]
BANGKOK: Vietnamese are continuing to pay for poached and murder rhinoceros horns in the country, believing that the medicinal aspects of the horns will help cure cancer and lengthen one’s age. Cancer patients are the most common buyers of the murdered animal’s horns, and despite illegal in Vietnam, it continues to be a major mover [...]
CAIRO: When the online community clicked, watched, liked and eagerly shared a 30-minute viral campaign that virtually endorsed US military intervention to capture Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony, a vigorous debate instigated over worrying credulity, imprudence and ‘slacktivism’ in today’s cyber-connected world. The largely Western-centric wrangle assumed the phenomenon follows a rather global homogenous trend, [...]
Meat-eaters will never stop asking and vegans always get sick of hearing it: “How do you get your protein?” The image of a skinny (not to mention gangly and dread-headed) hippie has typically been the poster child of veganism. After all, there’s no way we can be muscular, fit and even bulky as vegans, right? [...]
Activists across the world are praising the passing of a new gender identity law in Argentina that recognizes, fully, the identity of transgender citizens in the country. It was an historic vote, 55-0, with one abstention, and could pave the way for other countries’ governments to end discrimination against transgender and gender ambiguous individuals. The [...]
KATHMANDU: Two weeks ago, Rama Thapa was making chapatis, burning some trash for a makeshift stove until her husband returned with gas. Along the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, hundreds of families called the polluted river banks home, but that all changed this week when the government forcibly evicted hundreds, including over 400 children, and offered [...]
BANGKOK: The two sit hand-in hand on the beach, their small bikinis getting onlookers, both male and female, as the couple relaxes and soaks in the hot sun a few hours south of the Thai capital, Bangkok. Here, the two 20-year-old lesbians live in relative safety. Isabelle and Monica – they use Western names here [...]
POKHARA, Nepal: The employees at Seeing Hands Nepal can’t witness the towering snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas that mark the skyline in Pokhara, the city on the cusp of the Annapurna Himalaya range. Nor can they see the smaller mountains that encircle the country’s second largest lake, only a short walk from the stone pathway [...]
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