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Published in: 50.50Art and the refugee ‘crisis’: Mediterranean blues
Artists are mapping new itineraries of the Mediterranean, throwing into relief an incurable colonial wound that...
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Published in: 50.50Theresa May and the love police
In Theresa May’s “One Nation” we are all border guards. Her vision of the Big Society will make us all shrink.
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Published in: 50.50The refugee crisis: demilitarising masculinities
Photos emerging from the borders of Europe weave a new narrative around what it means to be vulnerable, to be a man,...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from farmers and indigenous women: cultivate democracy
Learning to live in harmony with the land is co-constituent to human rights activism. Jennifer Allsopp reports for...
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Published in: 50.50Why is so much art about the ‘refugee crisis’ so bad?
Even at a celebrity art gala you can don an emergency blanket and feel good about yourself. Hard political...
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Published in: 50.50Reflections on post-humanitarianism in dark times
British opposition to search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean and Polish pseudo-theological justifications...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rights
The international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and...
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Published in: 50.50Uncomfortable assumptions about security: the UK vote on support for Saudi Arabia
Pervasive and problematic assumptions about the UK’s security lie at the heart of parliament’s recent decision to...
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Published in: 50.50A very British tug of war over Europe’s child refugees
Parliament has voted to silence the voices of local communities. Their message of European solidarity and warm...
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Published in: 50.50No Women’s Day without refugee women
Hand-in-hand with Trump, Theresa May is not merely playing to an anti-migrant populist crowd but helped to create...
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Published in: 50.50Internally displaced women: social rupture and political voice
Displacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...
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Published in: 50.50A separation: Syrian asylum seekers in Germany
Rapidly changing asylum policies, plus legal and bureaucratic hurdles mean that many Syrian asylum seekers in...
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Published in: 50.50Escaping domestic violence: ‘according to the law, you are not here’
Many women survivors of violence in Europe cannot access support services because of their migration status. The...
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Published in: 50.50The Washington March: Historic communion of women
The women’s march brought many first-timers on to the streets. A first-timer writes about why the election of Donald...
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Published in: 50.50Women storm the capitol
Drawing from the ground, SASHALYNILLO captures the raw energy of the Women's March on Washington.
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Published in: 50.50After the Women's March on London: what now?
If just 3-4% of the 100,000 people who marched commit to further intersectional organising and activism, this could...
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Published in: 50.50Uganda’s unsung heroes of refugee protection
As responses to refugees and asylum-seekers become a multi-million dollar endeavour globally, everyday acts of...
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Published in: 50.50Precarious migrant motherhood in Lebanon
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers who give birth to children in Lebanon are caught in a trap between the struggle...
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Published in: 50.50António Guterres: The Ninth Man
How will UN Secretary-General António Guterres demonstrate the UN's intention to resist the rising tide of misogyny...
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Published in: 50.50UK National Security Strategy: security for whom?
To make real progress on tackling insecurity, there needs to be far greater commitment by the British government to...