“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”
― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy
Tag Archives: Human Rights Watch
“Like You’re Praying”: The Art of Humiliation and History of Forced Anal Exams
“I want the exams stopped, the practice discredited, the awards and certificates stripped from the doctors’ walls, the practitioners to lose their reputations for dispassionate expertise and sample a small measure of the humiliation they have inflicted on countless men. The doctors who do this must be recognized as torturers.” – Scott Long – When Doctors Torture: The Anus and the State in Egypt and Beyond
Entrapment: Middle East and North Africa No Safe Place for LGBT Online Dating
“The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.”
― Brian Whitaker, Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
No Laughing Matter: Zambia’s Anti-LGBT Campaign Takes Serious Turn
“As is often the case, an individual who has been racially oppressed may be blind that the same mechanisms of exclusion and denigration are at work in gender oppression.”
― Chantal Zabus
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