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Published in: 50.50What Iran wants from female religious authority: piety - yes, expertise in fiqh - noMore than a hundred women's seminaries have been set up by the Iranian state since the 1979 revolution. Yet the...
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Published in: 50.50Confronting prejudice with charm: migrants in the UK"We know it’s not easy to confront the tabloid press. We know we’ve taken on a huge challenge; we may make it; we...
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Published in: 50.50Taking the Pope to court
In a landmark effort to bring Vatican officials, including Pope Benedict XVI, to account for crimes against humanity...
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Published in: 50.50Why women are at the heart of Egypt’s political trials and tribulations
The Egyptian elections delivered a parliament that has one of the lowest rates of female representation in the...
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Published in: 50.50Unfair, unsafe and undignified: the treatment of women seeking asylum in the UKIn breach of the government's pledge to make the asylum system sensitive to the needs of women, officials are asking...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: performing in the margin, revolting in the centre"We are constantly aware of our gender and of being watched and judged because of it, so we end up "performing". But...
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Published in: 50.50Gender mainstreaming: the future of feminism? Or feminism’s disappearing act?Sylvia Walby’s ‘The Future of Feminism’ makes the case for gender mainstreaming as a successful mechanism for...
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Published in: 50.50Development and religion: ambivalent policy, grounded practice
Development policy seems to swing between a Marmite-style love-it-or-hate-it approach to religion. Yet practice on...
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Published in: 50.50Ruder, more liberal and as class-conscious as ever: how Britain sees itself todayAs arguments over nationhood and independence once again grab the political agenda, Sunder Katwala, director of a...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of belonging in Britain
'There is no opposite to belonging’: Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Jenny Allsopp on religion, migration and...
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Published in: 50.50How the British justice system makes criminals of childrenIt is time to reconsider how we deal with child offenders. Just for Kids Law director Shauneen Lambe examines new...
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Published in: 50.50Why migrant mothers die in childbirth in the UKMaternal mortality among black African women in the UK is up to seven times higher than it is among white women....
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Published in: 50.50Has neoliberalism knocked feminism sideways?
Feminism needs to recapture the state from the neoliberal project to which it is in hock in order to make it deliver...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the new Libya: challenges ahead
Will the rights of the women, who participated in the struggles leading to fall of Gaddafi, be put under pressure in...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian storytelling: a vessel for power
Writing has come to mean place and presence, and presence gives us power to force those who don't acknowledge our...
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Published in: 50.50Migration in Britain: the truth behind the headlines
By restricting entry, settlement and family reunification in the UK now, the UK risks putting off those that it will...
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Published in: 50.50Scrooge employers are Britain's real welfare cheats
A new report reveals pockets of extreme poverty among young working-age adults, including those who have jobs....
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Published in: 50.50The Occupy movement and the women of Greenham Common
Feminist experience and input into the theory and practice of nonviolence has much to offer a new generation of...
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Published in: 50.50Occupy: you can’t evict an idea
The Occupy movement has changed the national conversation in America, and challenged the rightward tilt of the...
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Published in: 50.50How far have Human Rights advanced when poverty is so widespread?
If the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable, then societies everywhere have cause to be...
