Tag Archive | war

Rape as a political tool

I shared a link on Twitter to an article in The Age today: Five men rape journalist, 22, in Tahrir Square: reports. A couple of paragraphs towards the end of the article particularly caught my eye: Although sexual harassment is not new to Egypt, suspicions abound that many of the recent attacks are organised by […]

New Land, New Life – a documentary everyone should watch

Today Craig Pendlebury drew my attention to a wonderful documentary about the lives of five refugees that had been highlighted in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. I am very grateful to to Craig, for had he not brought it to my attention I would have missed it totally.  As much as I try […]