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Published in: 50.50Overdue justice
The next Progress of the World's Women, UNIFEM's flagship biennial report, will be on Access to Justice. I went...
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Published in: 50.50Disillusionment, Anger and Protest.
At this Tuesday morning’s NGO consultation we women from the NGOs, attempting to participate in the 54th CSW,...
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Published in: 50.50The mother of all widows
So yesterday CSW formally opened and we NGOs, thousands of us,queue, crowd, jostle to get a seat either in the...
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Published in: 50.50Bring them into the daylight
The session on Sexual and Reproductive Health rights in Africa, held by the Amanitare Sexual Rights Network opened...
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Published in: 50.50A retrospective: 15 years later, Beijing’s mandate yet unfinished
Fifteen years ago in Beijing, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton made an instantly iconic cry for women’s rights:...
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Published in: 50.50A reception with Harriet
Minister for Women Harriet Harman visits the CSW for the first time - holding promise for the UK's commitment to the...
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Published in: 50.50Saying 'no' to Pinochet’s dictatorship through non-violence
There were many approaches to resisting dictatorship in Chile that contributed to its demise. One of them owed much...
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Published in: 50.50Becoming a feminist
15 years ago, I was a school girl with no awareness that Beijing was happening, but plenty of awareness of sexism....
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Published in: 50.50Widowhood: invisible for how much longer?
Margaret Owen has been trying to get the CSW to address the poverty of widows for 12 years. This is her last...
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Published in: 50.50My Beijing diary
Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith was a member of the UK delegation to Beijing in 1995, extracts from her diary capture the...
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Published in: 50.50Brazilian feminists on the alert
Brazilian feminists have made steady progress at both national and regional levels with establishing sexual and...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging ourselves at Beijing +15
Sunila Abeysekera lists the achievements of Beijing’95, and argues now that the priority for women’s movements...
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Published in: 50.50Equality between women and men is not a ‘women’s issue’
As the 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review action on the promises made in Beijing’95, will the...
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Published in: 50.50Holding up half the sky: not for ourselves alone
As the UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review the implementation of the radical Beijing Platform for...
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Published in: 50.50What’s wrong with a democratic world with justice, equality, development and peace?
As Cora Weiss reflects on the Beijing ’95 conference on women her dream is that we do not make war safe for women,...
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Published in: 50.50Reconceptualising war
What if defeating the enemy was the justification for war, but not its real goal? What if its goal was a certain...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformation
As Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50Vital peace constituencies
The last decade has seen much more detailed attention to the many, sometimes contradictory, roles women play in...
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Published in: 50.50Iran protests: what went wrong ?
In the wake of 22 Bahman and in the doldrums of anti-climax, the Iranian blogosphere is asking itself one question:...