Jameen Kaur is campaigns officer for Amnesty International in Galway, Ireland. She reported for openDemocracy from the Nobel Women's Initiative (NWI) conference in June 2007. She writes here in a personal capacity.
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Published in: 50.50Is gender a universal category? The double edged sword of identity politics.Jameen Kaur reports on the three day conference on ‘Women Deepening Democracy: Transforming Gender Equality. From...
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Published in: 50.50Meeri Piribis: carrying the torch of hope
“No more will we let the army decide, the insurgents decide, or the patriarchal structures of our societies that...
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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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