"Honour killings" and the oppression of women

7 March 2011. A World to Win News Service. It has been nearly four years since Doa Khalil, a 17-year-old woman in Iraqi Kurdistan, was stoned to death by her relatives to protect the "family honour". This dreadful act shocked those who saw the clips of the scene recorded on mobile phones and circulated on the Internet. It dramatically demonstrated the ongoing oppression of women in a patriarchal world.

Since then an increasing number of young women ...

Living Dolls: Are women considered human yet?

11 October 2010. A World to Win News Service. The following book review is by Lindsay Wright. We welcome book and film reviews and other articles that express our readers' opinions.

Living Dolls, by Natasha Walter, Virago, 2010

It can be easy for those of us who grew up in the 60s to believe that in the West much of the battle to win equality between the sexes has been won. Living in London in 2010, my gas engineer is a woman and the midwife a man; I...