Let’s me be straight up about this: this is a BBC story. We wouldn’t normally take one of our own and develop it into a programme. WHYS is about taking conversations that are already taking place, not about starting them. But this has been in the top 10 most read stories worldwide on bbcnews.com for the past few hours, and we’re also confident it relates to an issue that is already up-and-running in many of your countries.
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Archive for August 4th, 2009
To thousands of women in Africa and the Middle East, Lubna Hussein has become a heroine, someone defying religious authorities and fighting for women’s rights.
To the men who try to impose those rules (in this case the Public Order police in Sudan) she is an enemy of public morals, to be denounced in the letters pages of newspapers and in mosques. Continue reading ‘Lubna Hussein : Heroine or criminal?’