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Published in: 50.50The voice of Berta Cáceres has become the voice of millions
Graffiti on the walls in Honduras - Berta Vive! Teenagers chanting as they march - Berta Caceres Flores, sown in the...
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Published in: 50.50To exist is to resist: Million Women Rise
March 11th 2017 will mark the tenth anniversary of Million Women Rise's annual procession and rally to call an end...
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Published in: 50.5016 Days: survivors and activists at the centre
The field of violence against women is an argumentative space. 16 Days offers an opportunity to reflect, to be...
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Published in: 50.50Suffragists, actresses and activists do it: 100 years of self-defence
Wherever women are confronted with violence, they try to protect themselves. When this resistance becomes...
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Published in: 50.50"We are not the women with black eyes."
Women who have survived abuse are changemakers. It’s time to involve companies in creating a paradigm shift in...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous journeys: violence against women migrants in Turkey
Syrian women migrants in Turkey face many forms of violence - sexual harassment, forced and early marriage, polygamy...
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Published in: 50.50Are universities preventing violence against women?
Sexual harassment of women students is rife and violence against women in universities is commonplace. Are...
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Published in: 50.50What lies beneath prostitution policy in New Zealand?
The rosy rhetoric that surrounds prostitution policy in New Zealand is being exposed by survivors of the...
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Published in: 50.50'All day, everyday': where is the protection against violence in schools and universities?
The scale of harassment and violence in schools means girls and boys need more than sex and relationships education....
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Published in: Shine A LightThe end of domestic violence support for black and brown women in the UK?
Dedicated refuges were created to answer a desperate need. Now their survival is at risk.
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Published in: 50.50Singleness and the world of 'not belonging'
The repertoires about single women are unequivocal: without a husband and children, single women signify ‘lack’ -...
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Published in: 50.50Femicide in Mexico and Guatemala
Feminists in Mexico and Guatemala working on femicide also use the concept of ‘feminicide’ to draw attention to...
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Published in: 50.50The Italian mafia and violence against women
In the name of “culture” and “honour” young girls born into the ‘ndrangheta mafia in Calabria lose their sense of...
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Published in: 50.50A move to set free child sex abusers: in the name of “our culture”
Recent law reform initiatives on sexual crimes against children in Turkey reveal the growing danger for women and...
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Published in: 50.50Lesbians at the heart of the movement to end men’s violence
Feminist lesbians have been passionate activists from the beginning of the movement against men’s violence and...
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Published in: 50.50Men's intrusion: rethinking street harassment
To capture the impact of ‘street harassment’ on women’s sense of self, we may need to rethink our language to better...
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Published in: 50.50A long road: domestic violence law in China
After 20 years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, China now has its first domestic violence law. The...
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Published in: 50.50What will it take to end honour based violence in the UK?
‘Honour killings’ represent the tragic consequences of the failure to tackle honour based violence. Greater state...
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Published in: 50.50When a Man Kills a Woman
Across everything that divides societies, we share in common that men’s violence against women is normalised,...
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Published in: 50.50Since I gave you a phone it’s not rape
As evidence of UN peacekeepers’ sexual violence against Black African women and girls grows, media reporting and...