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Are women occupying new movements?

Published on: 2 July 2012

Written by: Hakima Abbas All articles by Hakima Abbas

The women's movement must argue against a de-historicized understanding of new social movements in the African...

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Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring'

Published on: 26 June 2012

Written by: Deniz Kandiyoti All articles by Deniz Kandiyoti

The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted...

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Entrepreneurs of the revolution: jockeying for livelihood and security in post-Arab Spring Cairo

Published on: 31 May 2012

Written by: Leila Zaki Chakravarti All articles by Leila Zaki Chakravarti

In the context of lax policing in the aftermath of the Arab spring, Cairo’s affluent neighbourhoods have seen the...

Leaflet in Arabic advertising FGM services

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Mutilating bodies: the Muslim Brotherhood’s gift to Egyptian women

Published on: 24 May 2012

Written by: Mariz Tadros All articles by Mariz Tadros

In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood have offered to circumcise women for a nominal fee as part of their community...

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Rwandan refugees face no choice but repatriation

Published on: 10 May 2012

Written by: Barbara Harrell-Bond All articles by Barbara Harrell-Bond

The UNHCR admits that that refugees fleeing Rwanda after 1998 still may have a well-founded fear of persecution, so...

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La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices

Published on: 17 April 2012

Written by: Tabara Ndiaye All articles by Tabara Ndiaye

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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Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers

Published on: 17 April 2012

Written by: Tabara Ndiaye All articles by Tabara Ndiaye

Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...

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Sénégal: la terre à ceux qui la travaillent

Published on: 16 April 2012

Written by: Fatou Guèye All articles by Fatou Guèye

Plus d’un quart de siècle de conflit armé, un tissu socio-économique complètement déstructuré, mais les femmes de...

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Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it

Published on: 16 April 2012

Written by: Fatou Guèye All articles by Fatou Guèye

After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...

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Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistance

Published on: 15 April 2012

Written by: Jessica Horn All articles by Jessica Horn

In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...

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"We are not women, we are Egyptians": spaces of protest and representation

Published on: 6 April 2012

Written by: Nadia Taher All articles by Nadia Taher

A focus on the spaces where women asserted their public presence in the Egyptian revolution reveals a great deal...

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Football and the game of politics in Egypt

Published on: 20 March 2012

Written by: Leila Zaki Chakravarti All articles by Leila Zaki Chakravarti

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' call for an official inquiry into football violence, following the deaths...

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Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?

Published on: 14 March 2012

Written by: Hania Sholkamy All articles by Hania Sholkamy

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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La transformation des vies au Burundi : « maintenant je ne suis plus battue »

Published on: 13 March 2012

Written by: Lyduine Ruronona All articles by Lyduine Ruronona

Les femmes au Burundi ont pu obtenir des modifications radicales du Code pénal, faisant du viol une infraction...

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Changing lives in Burundi: "Now I am no longer beaten"

Published on: 13 March 2012

Written by: Lyduine Ruronona All articles by Lyduine Ruronona

Women in Burundi have won radical changes to the country's Penal Code, making rape punishable by life imprisonment....

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Narrating the Arab spring from within

Published on: 8 March 2012

Written by: Hoda Elsadda All articles by Hoda Elsadda

What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...

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Of mini-skirts and morals: social control in Nigeria

Published on: 22 February 2012

Written by: Bibi Bakare-Yusuf All articles by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

The push to police the way that women dress continues across Africa on the pretext that it causes sexual harassment...

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M23: au nom du peuple Sénégalais

Published on: 21 February 2012

Written by: Aissatou Cissé All articles by Aissatou Cissé

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M23: in the name of the Senegalese people

Published on: 21 February 2012

Written by: Aissatou Cissé All articles by Aissatou Cissé

It is the people that must defeat Abdoulaye Wade, not the political leaders who he sees as his primary opposition....

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South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism

Published on: 21 February 2012

Written by: Shereen Essof All articles by Shereen Essof

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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