Nadie Murad, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, tells how she was made sex slave by DAESH (*), which made a detailed plan for enslavement of its captives (after killing all prisoners except attractive women).

She later escaped to Germany and started a campaign against enslavement.

* My usual term, PISSI, feels too flip for this context. I've read that the Arabic acronym DAESH means, more or less, "What crushes things".

Salafi Arabia has jailed or forced into exile most of the women who campaigned for the right to drive a car.

It seems that that the ruler intends that to be the one and only step towards equal rights.

US citizens: Support Sen. Udall's new bill S.3517 to prevent war with Iran.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Peru: Decision to Overturn Fujimori Pardon Confirms That Victims’ Rights Must Take Priority Over Political Decisions.

Disappeared Chinese actress Fan Bingbing has communicated again after months, with a public confession.

I don't know whether Ms Fan is guilty of tax evasion. I won't claim that is not so. However, mere guilt can't possibly justify holding a prisoner incommunicado, nor torture.

I wish China would stop holding prisoners incommunicado in horrible circumstances. Even more, I wish the US would stop.