Looks like we soon no longer can make jokes about the Faroes for being homophobic [Danish]. Oh well, we'll still have the jokes about them being fundies.

Happy face!

The Danish government has apparenlty decided to make it easier to fight hate crimes [Danish]. Back in 2011 a rapport from the Institute for Human Rights showed that… we got some serious fucking issues, which we need to deal with [Danish]: shitloads of cases don’t get reported, the Police actually reject cases, and several cases, which does fall ( Read more... )

and some other things, which I will only touch if reblogs on my flist gets common.

But electricdruid got a post up about the election in the US, where she points out:
One week from Tuesday we go to the polls to vote for President. By now I'm sure almost all of us know who they are going to cast their votes for. But it's important to remember that 36 states ( Read more... )

Welcome to Dystopia!
Entering a long-term and politically dangerous food crisis
by Jeremy GranthamNormally when I rec something I quote a little part of it. This time though - no. I cannot pick out a part of this which really shows what this paper is about, the introduction is plain simply too long, and I basically love every aspect of this paper ( Read more... )

Russia: Dangerous Climate for Human Rights Work

The threats also came amid a broad crackdown on Russia’s civil society since the return of President Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin. Laws rammed through the Duma in the summer imposed new restrictions on public assemblies, re-criminalized libel, and imposed new restrictions on internet content. A law ( Read more... )

Yo, everybody, can I get you all to sign this petition? A translation of the petition can be found here, but basically it's a petition to make sure the (trans) woman Fernanda Milan from Denmark back to Guatemala, which is one of the most dangerous places to be trans in the world. Unfortunately Denmark doesn't recognise gender identity as a reason ( Read more... )

That's right, folks, it's an add for Tampax. Featuring sharks. Lots of sharks. How fucking cool is that?!


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Yes, Todd Akin, victims of ‘legitimate rape’ get pregnant - here’s scientific proof*
If you're looking for hard numbers, the study concludes that the national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (12-45), and that an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year**. Does 32,000 pregnancies per ( Read more... )

Every year, thousands of entrepreneurs, change-makers, innovators and scientists gather in Long Beach, California for TED, the world’s leading thought conference. In 2011, the audience included executives from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and many other Silicon Valley startups ( Read more... )

In Uefa's sad world a pair of marketed underpants is worse than racism
Uefa needs to explain how it can fine Nicklas Bendtner £80,000 for showing his underpants when Porto had to pay only £16,700 for their fans' racist abuse earlier this season
SERIOUSLY! This man may be an idiot, but ffs, take a look at how racism is fined compared with the fine he ( Read more... )