http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/archive/2130 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85960 Graham Rankin draws some interesting analogies between modern globalisation and the economics of the Catholic Church in the 16th century. Manufacturing Crunch http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163937/1/2130 What Fatima Did… was adopt the veil, to the amazement of her teenage classmates and friends. This sharp, fast-moving play shows what happened next. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163862/1/2130 Yoav Shamir was called an anti-Semite for one his films, which, as a Jew and an Israeli, he found odd. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85844 At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. A new play takes the London stage. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85699 A major setback for gender campaigners as protests in Mali persuade the president to reject a new law improving the rights of women. BBC News http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163366/1/2130 Profane, rude, blasphemous, direct, mischievous - Kureishi's back: “There are times when we can be too respectful to one another and that can be dangerous.” http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162406/1/2130 “I don’t want to be a martyr and get it banned and boast about it,” says actress Nandita Das of her directorial debut, Firaaq. But she was aware when making her film about people caught up in the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 that it might prove controversial. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160442/1/2130 Durgabai Deshmukh Award winner Daud Sharifa Khanam from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu provided Muslim women a platform to challenge the oppressive patriarchal system. For this, she has had to face the ire of Muslim clerics. She was hated, abused and threatened but she never gave up the fight. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/158976/1/2130 A prime issue that chokes the political health of troubled Pakistan is that not all of its able citizens are allowed to vote... http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/158889/1/2130 Tired of living in a world governed by marriage laws formulated and implemented by men, Muslim women in India have come out with their own Nikahnama. It recognises their right to seek divorce and other entitlements so that they are the masters of their own destiny. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/158765/1/2130 Communalism as an ideology in India is surging forward despite the presence of an avowedly secular government at the centre. There may not have been spectacular occurrences of violence since the new government came to power in 2004, but minorities continue to live in an atmosphere of insecurity. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/158584/1/2130 Development agencies lack funds for successful reintegration, says UN Under-Secretary-General Radhika Coomaraswamy. Rehabilitation of child soldiers goes beyond the act of demobilisation from armies. Faith organisations and education can help communities receive these children back into their fold, says she. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/156799/1/2130 Critical of its existing policies, the Afghan government is now trying to transform its religious schools by widening their syllabus. The move is seen as an attempt to regain its past historic glory as students will be taught history, geography, science, languages - and computer studies, apart the teachings of Islam. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/156658/1/2130 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (IPS) - In a move that may hurt Malaysia's multi-religious social fabric the government has announced that certain Arabic words like 'Allah' cannot be used in the literature, gospel, and speeches of non-Muslim faiths. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/155916/1/2130 An NGO group in Bali is taking advantage of the international climate change conference on the Indonesian island to press for a Global Day of Silence.