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Best of 50.50 in 2010

A global debate for democracy is neither global nor democratic without the female half of humanity. Read seven of the best articles on 50.50 that argue for the equal reality, importance and democratic implication of women’s experience of the world.

Scilla Elworthy asks why there is no worldwide strategy for building peace and calls for a new Versailles Convention in 2018 - one hundred years after the 'war to end all wars'.

Ruth Rosen on what President Obama could learn from the modern women's movement about changing the terms of the debate and eventually the national conversation. 

Cynthia Cockburn on how today's antiwar movements could become wider, deeper, and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart. 

Jessica Horn and Jenny Morgan on how interpretations of the scriptures by African Christians are emerging as clear political choices that are undermining women's rights struggles across the African continent.

Ida Susser on how a microbicide success in HIV prevention in women shows how essential feminism is to good science.

Laura Carlsen on the private hell that lies within the hell of war, and the way in which impunity not only perpetuates crimes against women, but teaches generation after generation how to continue the practice.

Deniz Kandiyoti  on the challenge to gender equality that comes not just from actors with fundamentalist agendas, but from the way in which women’s rights have been opportunistically instrumentalized to serve geopolitical goals.

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Jane Gabriel

Jane Gabriel founded and edited the openDemocracy project 50.50 in 2006, publishing critical perspectives on social justice, gender and pluralism. She retired in 2016.

Prior to joining openDemocracy, Jane produced and directed more than 30 documentaries for Channel 4 Television and the BBC international current affairs series 'Correspondent', winning the Royal Television Society and One World Media awards for documentaries filmed in Greece and India. In 1980s she was a member of the UK's first all-women television production company, Broadside. In the 1970s she worked at Granada TV in the UK, and at Pacifica radio KPFA in the US. She is a qualified advocate for children in care and a trustee of the IF Project.

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