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Published in: 50.50Trans rights: Woman’s Place UK responds to 50.50’s reportA co-founder of the women’s group responds to openDemocracy’s report analysing opposition to potential gender...
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Published in: 50.50Why UK trans rights debates are so frustrating, but I won’t give up hopeProposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act have led to a vile backlash in the media. But we all deserve freedom
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Published in: 50.50Finding ‘Yo Real’: fighting machismo in Mexico CityMachismo is widespread in Mexico. One organisation takes aim at ‘negative masculinities’ with weekly group classes. Español
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 3: Why we need feminist investigative journalismAt the 2018 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, 50.50 organised a panel on feminist investigative...
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Published in: 50.50Who benefits from sensationalised media coverage of abortion? Hint: not women, whose lives are at stakeMedia outlets too often cover abortion-related news in inaccurate and derogatory ways. Activists and progressive...
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Published in: 50.50Intersex rights activists challenge the roots of gender oppression – and we must support them2017 brought promising developments for intersex rights. But with much work still to be done, feminist allies must...
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: the US ‘Christian fundamentalists’ behind new Netflix film on millennial sex livesA new film about youth ‘hookup culture’ follows students at Spring Break beach parties in Florida. Does it have a...
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Published in: 50.50How Irish anti-abortion activists are drawing on Brexit and Trump campaigns to influence referendumBacklash against Irish abortion rights enlists some of the same technologies, companies, and individuals involved in...
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Published in: 50.50Young, trans Nigerians: ‘people need to see that we exist’It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
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Published in: 50.50Girls at Dhabas: challenging issues of safety, or ‘respectability’ in urban Pakistan?“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation...
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Published in: 50.50Foreign and ‘alt-Right’ activists target Irish voters on Facebook ahead of abortion referendumNew data shows how social media has become a battleground in a transatlantic backlash against abortion rights for Irish women
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Published in: 50.50Feminist bots vs right-wing trolls: Brazil’s gender justice movements cross new frontiersAbortion has long been criminalised in Brazil. It is an issue that many have all but given up on – except for...
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Published in: 50.50How women in the Balkans are using social media to fight sexismWomen are primary targets of bias and online harassment in the Balkans. Now, a growing number are using the internet...
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Published in: 50.50#IBelieveHer protesters face backlash after Belfast rape acquittalsA gruelling rape trial ended in the acquittal of rugby players, prompting online outrage, offline protests – and a...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 2: "you can't eat a condom"Anti-choice activists at the United Nations argue that rural women need food, not reproductive choice. But unsafe...
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Published in: 50.50Teen Mom Tanzania: denied sex education, then criminalised for pregnancyPregnant teenagers face expulsion from school, arrests, even death. The backlash against sex education in Africa is...
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Published in: 50.50'The Tories cut, we bleed': the story of Women’s Lives Matter in Doncaster
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Published in: 50.50How the UN women’s talks failed to call out corporate power – letting down our human rights defendersLast month’s Commission on the Status of Women talks failed to tackle corporate impunity, despite increasingly...
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Published in: 50.50‘She could have been our Martin Luther King Jr’ – tribute to Marielle FrancoThe city councilwoman advocated for the rights of the most oppressed Brazilians. This is why people around the world...
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Published in: 50.50#MeToo in Japan: 'I was told not to bring shame on the country, with my story’Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations...
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