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Published in: 50.50Has rape become a weapon to silence atheists in Bangladesh?“There is no place for me in Bangladesh," says a young woman blogger who fled the south Asian country in 2017...
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Published in: 50.50How Italian women are organising against ‘obstetric violence’This gender-based violence, perpetrated by health workers, is widespread In Italy. A recent survey said it impacts...
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Published in: 50.50How women migrant workers defy ‘social control’ with everyday resistanceWomen migrant workers face extreme forms of social control in Saudi Arabia. One Sri Lankan woman shares her story of...
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Published in: 50.502017 in feminist protests: in picturesWomen around the world led protests in 2017 for our rights and against threats from everyday sexism to femicide.
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Published in: 50.50Support independent feminist mediaWe are at a crucial moment for both independent media and women’s rights, and we need to be bolder and more...
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Published in: 50.50How UK anti-abortion activists use American tactics to shock and shame women50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act, the anti-abortion movement is consolidating – with transatlantic support.
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Published in: 50.50“Our strategy is visibility”: the fight for LGBT rights in RomaniaViolence and anti-LGBT hate crime is on the rise in Romania, says activist Vlad Viski. But he and his colleagues...
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Published in: 50.50How Romania became a battleground in the transatlantic backlash against LGBT rightsRomania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001. Today it is witnessing a backlash against LGBT rights, supported by US...
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Published in: 50.50Christian ‘legal army’ in hundreds of court battles worldwideWomen’s rights advocates say controversial US legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom is ‘exporting extreme...
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Published in: 50.50Five inspirational feminists you should know and honour todayDocumenting the lives of departed feminists, and sharing their stories, honours their memories and inspires future...
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Published in: 50.50Students hit the road to fight street harassment in Kuala Lumpur – in picturesOn a global day of action for sexual and bodily rights in Muslim societies, Malaysian students stood against...
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Published in: 50.50Investigative journalist Jeta Xharra: challenging politicians and patriarchy in the BalkansReporter Jeta Xharra talks about misogyny in journalism, and how she uses her live TV show to challenge politicians...
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Published in: 50.50"The first prejudice to fight was mine": Italy's only publicly trans police officerItaly is one of Europe's most transphobic countries, and its laws – and rates of violence – reflect that.
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Published in: 50.50Remembering murdered activists is important – but not enoughMy organisation publishes annual, online tributes to activists who have passed away. What we really need is for...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s voices must not be ignored in business and human rights talksThe corporate rush for land and resources in the Global South has gender-specific impacts on women, who are...
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Published in: 50.50How India's Café Sheroes fights back against acid attacksRun by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and...
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Published in: 50.50What does it mean to be a feminist father in America today?Parents must talk to their kids about patriarchy, and confront mental barriers and social pressures that enforce...
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Published in: 50.50Northern Ireland police must stop intimidating equality activistsThe force can't claim to be progressive whilst cracking down on those protesting hateful conservatism and...
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Published in: 50.50I'm a trans teenager in Northern Ireland, where bigotry is taught at schoolWhile LGBTQ+ rights groups are deemed “inappropriate” for educational environments, abusive and anti-choice...
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Published in: 50.50The invisible #MeToo: how anonymous testimony can help survivors of sexual abuseA college campus project showed me how anonymity can give survivors critical freedom to tell their truth, free from...
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