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Published in: 50.50Can't find a job in the UK? You’re not trying hard enough
Unemployment in Britain could reach 3 million this year, an entire new welfare-to-work industry has sprung up, and...
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Published in: 50.50Freedom 'to’ and freedom 'from’: rebalancing the tension in favour of gender equality
The various social contracts that are emerging between the State and the dominant religious right minority...
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Published in: 50.50What Iran wants from female religious authority: piety - yes, expertise in fiqh - no
More 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: 50.50Why 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 UK
In 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 today
As 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 children
It 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 UK
Maternal 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: 50.50The English riots: restoring hopes and dreams in Tottenham
The voices of responsible, ambitious and conscientious young people in Haringey deserve to be heard, says Andreas Koumi
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Published in: 50.50Nigeria: women on the outskirts of politics
With only nine women senators representing 54 million women in Nigeria, international support should focus on the...
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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....