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Published in: 50.50African women with HIV in Europe: from isolation to involvementAfrican women living in the UK still have to deal with a number of harmful cultural practices. Many of these women...
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Published in: 50.50Saving Sakineh
This is a tragedy that belongs to modern powerplay and the current moment, and that calls for a much more thoughtful...
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Published in: 50.50Spirit, hope, money and a dose of patriarchy
A growing movement of African Christians are making waves at home and abroad with their ultra conservative...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: playing the numbers game
The British coalition government wants to halve net migration into Britain. Not only is there no economic or social...
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Published in: 50.50The Tea Party and the new right-wing Christian feminismWhy have American women become so active in the right wing Tea Party movement? Could it be that they are drawn to...
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Published in: 50.50Politics vs Delivery: the G8’s maternal health agenda
G20 countries are asking why rich nations should continue to direct the form and substance of development programmes...
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Published in: openEconomyIt's up to You - the economics of openDemocracy
Yes, great, independent content costs and if the readers don't pay for it who will? Why you should want...
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Published in: 50.50A platform for humanity - The UK's Bath experiment
Positive peace is more than the absence of war. Groups campaigning to advance the causes that are vital to building...
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Published in: HomeToward a new Alexandria
The guardians of learning can no longer allow the Library to be surrounded with barbed-wire fences. It is time for...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous liaisons
We cannot afford the direct or indirect legitimisation of extremist religious forces especially by organisations...
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Published in: HomeOptimism, pessimism and rationality
In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and...
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Published in: 50.50"They don't speak English": language, migration and cohesion
Transforming the mechanisms and means to enable an acquisition of English is urgently required. Language is the life...
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Published in: 50.5050.50 – equal but different: a reply to Ruth Rosen
Something challenging and refreshing has begun to emerge in some serious publications. Women are claiming an equal...
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Published in: 50.50Different pasts, shared future
Note to self: Make sure you know the meaning of the past before you set about cleaning the windows of the future!...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist revolution: population, migration and consumption
The poor women of the world are defusing the population time-bomb themselves so let’s stop talking about...
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Published in: 50.50Women at the Public Service Broadcasting Forum
Lis Howell reflects on gender balance at the recent Public Service Broadcasting Forum
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Published in: 50.50NPT: challenging the nuclear powers' fiefdom
The NPT Review provided a bridge between the partial non-proliferation approach of the NPT and the comprehensive...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: development on the move
Migration is an unstoppable fact of life in the 21st century and should be based on a sound understanding of...
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Published in: oDRTurkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?A recently published book about President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan confirms that the cult of personality is...
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Published in: 50.50A rose and a duck: labelling religious fundamentalisms
When it comes to religious fundamentalisms women's rights activists say Shakespeare was wrong: the way we name...