In a survey, nearly 25% of men in some Asian countries, including China and Indonesia, said they have committed rape. This includes rape of a spouse.

Nearly 25% of Indian men also say they have committed rape.

Many girls of Asian origin in the UK are raped, and keep it secret because their relatives would punish them if they knew. Sometimes relatives force them into an unwanted marriage to get them out of the family.

The condemnation of females who have sex, even involuntarily, reflects the patriarchal idea of females as valuable property of the family, rather then as persons who matter for their own sake.

In the US: participate in a protest on Sep 21 against the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.

Everyone: Call on Indonesia not to demand that high school students pass "virginity tests" or be excluded from school.

The UK officially approves of pre-emptively arresting suspected protesters.

The arrests were made on dishonest pretexts.

Once again, the Afghan government and locals say a bomb killed mostly civilians, while NATO says it killed only enemy fighters.

Civilian casualties are inevitable in a war. You can try to avoid them but it is impossible to succeed completely. Deciding to fight a war implies accepting these casualties. Sometimes that is justified, but the reason needs to be very strong.

The Taliban kill a lot more civilians than NATO does, but the Afghan people don't resent it as much. Either they support the Taliban at some level, or they are not strongly motivated to fight them. As long as that is the case, defeating the Taliban militarily is almost impossible.