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Published in: 50.50HIV: both the cause and the consequence of violence against womenIn the UK the number of women living with HIV has been steadily growing since the beginning of the epidemic. Newly...
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Published in: 50.50The challenges for women of HIV and gender violence
The hinterland of acknowledging and dealing with the links between gender violence and HIV/AIDS is mostly unexplored...
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Published in: 50.50Nameless, Genderless: The Meena Bazaar Women
What prevents politicians from discussing national security issues and violence against women in the same sentence?...
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Published in: 50.50There is no honour in ‘honour killing’
Islam is more tolerant of male-female relationships than some would have us believe. The issue of ‘honour killing’...
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Published in: 50.50“We have failed. We have nothing to celebrate”
There is a growing wave of unrest among young women at the failure of governments to recognise and implement...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict Transformed? The start of a debateIn the first article of her series, Diana Francis reviews the aspirations and achievements of conflict transformers...
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Published in: 50.50When the global is local: UN Security Council Resolutions on sexual violence are for all of us
Joining the Reclaim the Night march in London last weekend, Vanessa Alexander asks how can we advocate for the...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women in the UK: a map of gaps
The shift of funding from central to local authorities has led to the loss of essential services and...
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Published in: 50.50Why do Americans love Sarah Palin?
Why does America take Palin seriously? The answer lies in gender politics, and in the history of right-wing...
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Published in: 50.50Fotokids – Out of the DumpHow an organisation that attempts to bring young people in Guatemala out of poverty by providing training in the...
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Published in: 50.50Ugandan gays and Muslim women:a common struggle to redefine family
What have gay rights activists in Christian-majority Uganda and Muslim women fighting for family law reform in Asia...
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Published in: 50.50Gender in Afghanistan: pragmatic activism
War and mismanagement have produced a breakdown of trust, decency and reciprocity in Afghan society. Gender activism...
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Published in: 50.50Could the Conservatives detoxify immigration politics?
Ayesha Saran reflects on her experience at the recent party conferences
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Published in: 50.50A Powerful Women's Agency: will the UN deliver?
As the UN moves to create a strong women's agency led by an Under Secretary General, Charlotte Bunch argues that...
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Published in: 50.50Changing lives in the West Bank villagesThe increasing economic poverty in villages outside Ramallah in the West Bank is leading to unexpected changes in...
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Published in: 50.50We are visible
Katana Gégé Bukuru spoke to Isabel Hilton at the Nobel Women's Initiative gathering in Antigua about her work for...
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Published in: 50.50Violence targets the weakest
We have found that the primary cause of all the violence and submission which women undergo is discrimination, and...
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Published in: 50.50Laureate Mairead Maguire: building 'deep democracy'Laureate Mairead Maguire spoke to Jane Gabriel about a new politic she sees arising: one in which ‘deep democracy’...
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Published in: 50.50To know that we are not aloneEvery woman at the NWI gathering in Antigua had a way of redefining democracy - from writing the new Ecuadorian...
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Published in: 50.50Laureate Jody Williams: telling it like it isJody Williams speaks frankly to Jane Gabriel about the impact that being a Nobel Peace Laureate has on her life -...