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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a reality too dark in which to glimpse hope?The last known message from the Egyptian activist Zainab Mahdy reads, " It's like we're digging in water...There is...
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Published in: 50.50Of canaries and coal minesAre women the canaries in the coal mine, their ill treatment signalling larger problems within a society? Or is...
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Published in: 50.50British democracy and women's right to live free from violence
As the general election approaches in May 2015, women's organisations in the UK have issued the Women's Safety...
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Published in: 50.50Young feminists: resisting the tide of fundamentalismsFundamentalism is a root cause of multiple forms of violence experienced by young women and trans*youth worldwide....
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Published in: 50.50The stories we tell about ISIS and women
Political and popular discussions about strategies to confront ISIS are doing women in Iraq and Syria a disservice,...
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Published in: 50.50The Global Slavery Index: seduction and obfuscationThe Global Slavery Index is critically flawed: compromised by a weak methodology, unverified assumptions and...
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Published in: 50.50Women in prison: the cycle of violence
Most women in prison in Britain have experienced sexual or domestic violence, yet the system fails to address their...
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Published in: 50.50Sexualized violence in Iraq: how to understand and fight it
Sexualised and gender-based violence in Iraq, highlighted in recent weeks in relation to ISIS atrocities, has been...
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Published in: 50.50"It takes broken bones": authoritarianism and violence against women in HungaryRight-wing discourse in Hungarian politics is matched by the government’s regressive handling of gender issues, as...
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Published in: 50.50Changing the behaviour of male perpetrators of domestic violenceDomestic violence shows no sign of abating. There is growing recognition that working with male perpetrators -...
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Published in: 50.50The Handmaid's Tale of El SalvadorPoverty, misogyny, and Christian fundamentalism in El Salvador lie behind the prison sentences of up to forty years...
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Published in: 50.50Masculine violence: call of duty, or call for change?The much-hyped launch of a new gun-shooting video game this month reveals the thread of gender linking...
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Published in: 50.50The right to walk alone without fearThe Reclaim the Night marches through night-time city centres tap into a righteous and rising anger, and are a way...
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Published in: 50.50Reeva Steenkamp: justice?At the core of a global pandemic of violence against women rage two defining features of patriarchy: male privilege...
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Published in: 50.50Preventing violence against women: a sluggish cascade?There has been a global 'cascade' in commitments to end violence against women. But the violence keeps happening....
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Published in: 50.50A choir of lost voices: the murder of Loretta Saunders and Canada's missing women
The murder of Loretta Saunders, a young scholar who researched missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada,...
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Published in: 50.50Iran: a 'bloody stain' on the nationThe war on women continues to manifest itself in different forms and intensity globally; tarnishing all societies...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion: Ireland's reckoning with Amendment 8
Calling for an end to a constitution that bans abortion - and kills women, a deep and broad based movement has...
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Published in: 50.50Oscar Pistorius: the South African storyThe two versions of Oscar Pistorius presented by the state and the defence fit into a wider narrative of South...
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Published in: 50.50Women's voices in northern Nigeria: hearing the broader narrativesAs the world's attention focuses on northern Nigeria with the abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok, Fatimah Kelleher...
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