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If you thought growing fat is disgusting, here is something more disgusting than that: relaying and sharing your shame and disgust about growing fatter across the Internet. BodyTrace is a wireless scale which sends your weight to the Internet every time you check your own bodyweight. The machine costs $119 and a 3 month subscription costs $19.99. You [...]

Mistrust, prejudice and little support – this is the daily life of thousands of women raped during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), 14 years after the end of the conflict. It is unknown how many women were raped, but estimates reveal at least 25,000, most of them Muslim. There were Serbs and Croats, too. NGOs estimate that about one thousand children [...]

Upon the orders of a tribal council who wished to punish her family because her brother had sexual relations with a girl from a powerful clan and higher caste, Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai was kidnapped and gang-raped in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002. The act was payment for her family’s ‘crime of honor.’ Her brother was sodomized by a [...]