Monika’s Pensieve

This is a report on people being forced out of their houses by corporations.

I felt this was quite a strange, but fascinating story. Google has included some historical Japanese maps in their Google Earth service and there are calls for these maps to be taken down:
The maps date back to the country’s feudal era, when shoguns ruled and a strict caste system was in place. At the bottom [...]

This is a really good news report about Hana and her new life in South Korea.

The first time I heard about women striking by withholding sex from their men was a couple of months ago. In Kenya things seem to have gone further.
The women in Kenya are worried that the political situation in the country has become so tense that it may have violent consequences - like it did two [...]

The BBC asked three cartoonists from Afghanistan, Iran and Venezuela to sum up Obama’s presidency so far. Here’s what they came up with.

Here’s a very sad story of an Afghan actress and how she has had to go into hiding because of her profession. The article goes on to say:
Correspondents say there is marked sense of unease among many other working women in Kabul and other Afghan cities as the presence of the Taleban - who have [...]

Here’s an article, which talks a bit about Sufi Islam and how it differs from the more hard-line forms of Islam.

I’m completely not used to seeing Shahrukh taking any kind of political stands - he’s the guy, who always wiggles out of making any definitive comments on anything political. So it’s a surprise to discover he’s been making a very strong one recently… Or maybe it just seems strong to me because he doesn’t usually [...]

Yes, really.

Not long ago, I posted this - a report about an Afghan father, who is fighting for justice for his teenage daughter, who is a rape victim. It takes a lot of guts to go against the social system like that.
But, alas, not all of the teenage rape stories from Afghanistan are like that. Some [...]