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Published in: 50.50Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim family lawsWhy and how did verse 4:34, and not other verses in the Qur’an, become the foundation for the legal construction of...
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Published in: 50.50Facing up to the humanitarian consequences of nuclear policies and mistakes
The NPT PrepCom Review in Vienna closed by underlining the majority view that “any use or threat of use of nuclear...
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Published in: 50.50The hijab or the bikini: the shaping of young girls’ sexuality
Where the line will be drawn between childrens' rights and parents’ rights will always be heavily contested. Issues...
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Published in: 50.50Tribunal 12: migrants’ rights abuses in Europe45 years on, the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre is being used to...
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Published in: 50.50Summoning political will to rid the Middle East of WMD
Time is running out for the long anticipated conference in Helsinki on how to establish a nuclear free zone in the...
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Published in: 50.50Borders of punishments: criminology and migration control
Migration control increasingly resembles crime control, what’s worse is that migrants are not afforded the same...
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Published in: 50.50Turmoil in Syria: failed “Arab spring” or sectarian nightmare?
Although inspired by the movements of the Arab spring, the protests in Syria have degenerated into increasingly...
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Published in: 50.50Making visible the invisible: commodification is not the answer
If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic...
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Published in: 50.50Non-Proliferation Treaty: the ground is shifting
Civil society, the Non-Aligned Movement, and a cross regional group of 16 countries have brought humanitarian...
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Published in: 50.50UK migration: a hierarchy of injustices
The social cohesion and inclusion debate does not even begin to touch the lives of those invisible migrants who toil...
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Published in: 50.50Culture versus rights dualism: a myth or a reality?
Women’s human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin...
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Published in: 50.50"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50What does transforming economic power mean?
Today's targeting of women in processes of realigning economic controls is perhaps quite unique. In order to unpack...
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Published in: 50.50Brazil: "state feminism" at work
How far can the flourishing "participatory state feminism" in Brazil expand into the state apparatus in order to...
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Published in: 50.50Peace movements: violence reduction as common sense
If one thing holds the overall movement of peace movements together it is the goal of violence reduction. There’s a...
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Published in: 50.50Olympic paradoxes: the Games’ ambivalent impacts on London
The selective logics of inclusion operating throughout the project, and the news that private interests will be the...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming care as a fundamental end in itself
In the global context of economic insecurity and emerging 'care crises', there is a real risk that the development...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
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