The British Government has re-written the legal dictionary to say that the word ‘wife' - "will include a woman married to another woman or a man married to a man" according to the Telegraph Newspaper (28/6/2013), and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that there is no impediment to the state of California "issuing same-sex marriage licenses", thereby opening the door to 13 other U.S. states to approve same-sex marriages…

On June 15 2013, Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi declared that he had severed ties with Bashar al Assad's regime. He said, "We decided today to entirely break off relations with Syria and with the current Syrian regime." Furthermore, Morsi expressed full support for the Syrian people. He said, "The Egyptian people supports the struggle of the Syrian people, materially and morally, and Egypt, its nation, leadership ... and army, will…

With each passing day, the depth and breadth of Iran's support for Assad's floundering regime becomes ever more apparent. The latest news to emerge from Syria is that sophisticated technology supplied by Russia and Iran is boosting Assad's chances of staging a comeback against the brave opposition fighters. Equally revealing is the magnitude of the assistance provided by Hezbollah to Assad's brutal war machine. Hezbollah fighters deeply entrenched with Assad's…

On the 13th of May, the Bangladeshi army announced that it had ended its search for survivors of the Rana Plaza garments factory collapse in Dhaka three weeks ago that tragically claimed the loss of more than 1100 lives, most of them women. The heartbreaking tragedy once again highlighted the exploitation of women by the garment and other multinational corporations in the country as the building housed five garment factories…