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April 2012

  • Indonesia to ban mini-skirts over “links to rape”

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    2 min read

    Cliquea aquí para Español. News of Note: ‘You know what men are like’: Indonesia to ban mini-skirts over links to rape Indonesia’s powerful religious affairs minister believes that mini-skirts are pornographic and should be banned under the country’s tough new anti-porn laws. Minister Suryadharma Ali has been appointed to run Indonesia’s new anti-porn taskforce, announced…

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  • Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords

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    2 min read

    (También en Español) News of Note: Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around. “It’s akin to requiring someone’s house…

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  • The new legal theory that enables homophobic evangelizing in US schools

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    3 min read

    (También en Español) News of Note: The new legal theory that enables homophobic evangelising in US schools Last month, 8,000 public high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, went home with fliers informing them that no one is “born gay” and offering therapy if they experienced “unwanted same-sex attraction”. The group behind the flier, Parents…

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