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Published in: 50.50‘Gays, Gods and Governments': homophobia in UgandaThe drama playing out in Kampala over the tabling of the Anti Homosexual Bill for its first reading in the Ugandan...
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Published in: 50.50Land grabs: the threat to African women’s livelihoods
Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in...
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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: 50.50Egyptian 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: 50.50Women 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: HomeThe second Egyptian revolution: millions of Egyptians have left their homes
The renowned Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist wrote from the eye of the storm on...
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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: 50.50Let’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: 50.50The tactical cosmopolitanism of migrants
How do foreign migrants in South Africa's urban estuaries deal with the hostility they regularly encounter? The...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: the values we fought for
Inequality in South Africa has deepened since 1994. Respect for fundamental rights, including socio-economic rights,...
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Published in: 50.50On the record: women in South Kordofan
The majority of voters in the South Kordofan election in May 2011 were women. In the violence that ensued, women...
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Published in: 50.50Transforming our woundedness for peace" I refuse to be a victim: I am a resource for peace": Dekha Ibrahim Abdi 1964-2011
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Published in: 50.50"Feast with your enemies" - Dekha Ibrahim AbdiWhat do I do differently as a result of knowing this great woman? I utterly believe in the power of one local person...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the battle over hope and morale
The deliberate attempt to discredit women's rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a...
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Published in: 50.50Le Cameroun: une forme de violence sournoise en milieu scolaire
Dans la Région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, des pères privent leurs filles de leur droit à l’éducation. Aîssa...
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Published in: 50.50Cameroon: a subtle violence in education
In the extreme north region of Cameroon, fathers routinely deprive their daughters of the legal right to education....
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Arab Spring, Islamist Summer
Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in the region. In part two of a three part article Kristine...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Feminist Fall?Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Women's winter of discontent
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