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Published in: 50.50Are women occupying new movements?The women's movement must argue against a de-historicized understanding of new social movements in the African...
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Published in: 50.50Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring'The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted...
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Published in: 50.50Entrepreneurs of the revolution: jockeying for livelihood and security in post-Arab Spring CairoIn the context of lax policing in the aftermath of the Arab spring, Cairo’s affluent neighbourhoods have seen the...
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Published in: 50.50Mutilating bodies: the Muslim Brotherhood’s gift to Egyptian womenIn Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood have offered to circumcise women for a nominal fee as part of their community...
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Published in: 50.50Rwandan refugees face no choice but repatriation
The UNHCR admits that that refugees fleeing Rwanda after 1998 still may have a well-founded fear of persecution, so...
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Published in: 50.50La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer...
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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: 50.50Sénégal: la terre à ceux qui la travaillent
Plus d’un quart de siècle de conflit armé, un tissu socio-économique complètement déstructuré, mais les femmes de...
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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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Published in: 50.50Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistance
In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...
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Published in: 50.50"We are not women, we are Egyptians": spaces of protest and representation
A focus on the spaces where women asserted their public presence in the Egyptian revolution reveals a great deal...
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Published in: 50.50Football and the game of politics in EgyptThe Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' call for an official inquiry into football violence, following the deaths...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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Published in: 50.50La transformation des vies au Burundi : « maintenant je ne suis plus battue »Les femmes au Burundi ont pu obtenir des modifications radicales du Code pénal, faisant du viol une infraction...
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Published in: 50.50Changing lives in Burundi: "Now I am no longer beaten"Women in Burundi have won radical changes to the country's Penal Code, making rape punishable by life imprisonment....
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Published in: 50.50Narrating the Arab spring from within
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...
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Published in: 50.50Of mini-skirts and morals: social control in Nigeria
The push to police the way that women dress continues across Africa on the pretext that it causes sexual harassment...
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Published in: 50.50M23: in the name of the Senegalese people
It is the people that must defeat Abdoulaye Wade, not the political leaders who he sees as his primary opposition....
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism
It’s not an individualist but a collective feminism that we need, one that measures success not by how high a woman...
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