A call to abolish college fraternities.

The UK government is scapegoating the tiny fraction of people who are incapacitated by obesity, by threatening to bully them unless they get treatment. This is to distract from cutting the funds for mental health care that might provide useful treatment.

Regular feeding of antibiotics used to make pigs grow faster — but since 2000 it no longer has that effect.

A United Nations human rights expert strongly condemned the U.S. on Tuesday for being the "only State in the world that still sentences [minors] to life imprisonment without the opportunity for parole."

The expert actually said "children" but we don't need to stretch that word to make this point.

Saudi Arabia blocked a speech by Sweden's foreign minister to a meeting of the Arab League; she was going to talk about democracy and human rights. So Sweden decided to let lapse an arms sale agreement with Saudi Arabia.

Bravo for Sweden, daring to criticize the injustice of Saudi Arabia's medieval policies and stop facilitating arms sales to their perpetrators. Every country should do this.

The shari'a law that the Arab League ministers praised is the enemy of human rights, especially for women but also for men.

Since the sales are legal without the agreement, I wonder what benefit the agreement actually provides to that company. Does it provide financing? Bypass regulatory requirements?