
HIV in Africa; Hate Speech; Safe Space
Why a claim that 74 % of African girls aged 15 鈥 24 are HIV positive is untrue, why a hashtag 鈥淚 stand with hate speech鈥 has been trending and the meaning of 鈥渟afe space鈥.
The news aggregation website Zimbabwe Today recently ran a headline stating that 74% of African girls aged 15-24 are HIV positive. Although the statistic is not true, Mary Mahy from UNAIDS reveals that young women do have a higher infection rate than young men.
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The hashtag 'I stand with hate speech' has been trending in several countries, causing outrage as tens of thousands of people appeared to support online abuse. But the hashtag鈥檚 supporters claim they鈥檙e simply taking a stand for freedom of expression on the internet. 成人快手 Trending also meets some of the Pakistani women who've been reacting to a recent suggestion that men in the country should be allowed to beat their wives, as long as it's done 鈥榣ightly鈥.
The university experience is expected to train the minds of students by exposing them to new ideas and challenging their assumptions. Why then, in the English speaking west at least, are some students rebelling against this principle by insisting there are some ideas which are so abhorrent they should not be heard? To them a university should be a safe space. In the Why Factor, Mike Williams tries to discover where the balance lies between freedom of speech and protection from offence.
(Photo: HIV test in Africa. Credit: Polepole-tochan/Getty Images)
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