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Published in: 50.50Overdue justiceThe 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 widowsSo 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 daylightThe 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 unfinishedFifteen 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 HarrietMinister 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-violenceThere 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 feminist15 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 diaryJane 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 alertBrazilian 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 +15Sunila 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 aloneAs 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:...
