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Published in: 50.50Sex work: not prohibited, not permitted
Criminalization sets a context in which the range of human rights violations experienced by sex workers is...
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Published in: 50.50The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing...
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Published in: 50.50Deaths, deportations and arrests: violence against migrants in Morocco
EU policy is blocking routes to Europe for those suffering from the neocolonial and capitalist exploitation and...
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Published in: 50.50'We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn.'
An art project on two narrow boats hitched together on a canal in northern England is celebrating co-dependency -...
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Published in: 50.50Borderlands: words against walls
Both material and figurative walls are shaping our present. Now is the time for the arts and humanities to intervene...
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Published in: 50.50Are we all beheaded Copts?
Is the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya associated with a broader political project of cleansing...
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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: 50.50Dangerous 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: 50.50Femicide 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: 50.50A 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...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and humiliation at the job centre
The lack of self-confidence among young women looking for a job in Britain, revealed in the ‘Work It Out’ report, is...
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Published in: 50.50Donors thinking big: beyond gender equality funds
The case for investing in southern women’s rights organisations is firmly established, but to create sustainability,...
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Published in: 50.50Sound the Trumpet
Trump offered white voters the illusion they could prosper. We have to offer all our people a way to move forward...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job