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Published in: 50.50The Occupy movement and the women of Greenham CommonFeminist 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...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the code of silence
Storytelling, in itself, will neither eliminate sexual violence nor entirely heal PTSD. But it can help shift the...
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Published in: 50.50Ending female genital mutilation in the UK
"It is only now we realise that female genital mutilation is child abuse, many people in our home country don’t...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s get real: female sexual pleasure and HIV prevention
The dominant HIV intervention response assumes that HIV transmission only occurs in contexts of danger and...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: of bombs and banks and transformation...
Thirty years into the AIDS pandemic, an AIDS-free generation is in our grasp at last. Alice Welbourn asks whether we...
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Published in: 50.50Citizen action and the perverse confluence of opposing agendas
When opposing political interests are using the same terms and tactics in diametrically opposed agendas, Lisa...
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Published in: 50.50Family Migration – don't fall into the Danish trap
An ongoing UK Government consultation on immigration policy makes an exemplar of the Danish system. But is Denmark's...
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Published in: 50.50The dark side of democracy: autochthony and the radical right
Racialised and forced migrants are the spectre of the 'other' in the autochthonic dream of the 'pure' otherless...
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Published in: 50.50Ken Clarke, Strauss-Kahn, Yale and SlutWalks: rape, consent and agencyIn recent weeks, one word has dominated the headlines: rape. The events worldwide have shown how rape remains in the...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women demand justice
The systematic use of sexual violence along with torture, cruel and degrading treatment – such as the common use of...
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Published in: 50.50Who do they think they are? War rapists as people
War is social, and examining soldier identity and male bonding may give us insight into how the incidence of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Year of the boomerang? Frantz Fanon and the Arab uprisings
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas...
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Published in: 50.50Shirin Ebadi: who defines Islam?
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic...
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Published in: 50.50Promise and peril: women and the ‘Arab spring’
Women were visible and effective in the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Will this moment of opening yield...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism and the soul of secularism
Secularism, as a concept, appears to be in danger from both the left and the right. Among feminists, it tends to be...
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