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Published in: 50.50Awake to the challenge: African women's leadership at Beijing+20
If you randomly pick a person on the street in a remote part of any African country and ask them what they know...
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Published in: 50.50The madame's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sector
The Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
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Published in: 50.50The maid's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sector
The Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women's rights: no time for dissent
The act of dissent should match the need for equality, rather than the time for equality. In the fight for a right,...
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Published in: 50.50Remembering, contesting and forgetting: the aftermath of the Cairo massacres
The Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures in the wake of the Rab'aa mosque massacre continue to colour...
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Published in: 50.50Ebola: exposing the failure of international development
The Ebola crisis has revealed the consequences of deep-seated, unequal global social and economic relations that...
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Published in: 50.50Report thy neighbour: policing Sisi’s Egypt
A regime bereft of legitimacy, save for its promise to guarantee national security, turns citizens into active...
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Published in: 50.50Rest in power, Assia Djebar
Why is it that the homeland always rejects its most erudite children? Latefa Guemar pays tribute to the feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Gendered paradoxes of Egypt’s transition
Four years after the downfall of Mubarak, women face a new patriarchal bargain: abandoning all forms of independent...
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Published in: 50.50Article 11: feminists negotiating power in Egypt
Faced with unequal power relations at the negotiating table and authoritarian consolidation, a member of the...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a reality too dark in which to glimpse hope?
The last known message from the Egyptian activist Zainab Mahdy reads, " It's like we're digging in water...There is...
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Published in: 50.50Reeva Steenkamp: justice?
At the core of a global pandemic of violence against women rage two defining features of patriarchy: male privilege...
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Published in: 50.50Oscar Pistorius: the South African story
The two versions of Oscar Pistorius presented by the state and the defence fit into a wider narrative of South...
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Published in: 50.50Avoidable injustices: the way to prevent violence against women
We want to end violence against women, but is it really preventable? New research from Uganda adds scientific muscle...
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Published in: 50.50Confronting Ebola in Liberia: the gendered realities
In Liberia 75% of those who have been infected or killed from Ebola are women. Last month, a rapid assessment and...
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Published in: 50.50Secularism at risk in Sub-Saharan secular states: the challenges for Senegal and Mali
Secularism is being challenged in several Sub-Saharan African states which have long guarded it as a principle of...
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Published in: 50.50La laïcité à l’épreuve dans les États laïques d’Afrique au Sud du Sahara : Les défis pour le Sénégal et le Mali
La laïcité est mise à l’épreuve dans plusieurs États d’Afrique subsaharienne qui l’ont gardé comme principe de...
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Published in: 50.50The UN should not let Sudan get away with murder
When the UN Human Rights Council meets this week to discuss the human rights situation in Sudan, will member states...
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Published in: 50.50"What can a woman do?" Gender norms in a Nigerian university
Are universities necessarily transformative spaces for women students? Research at the University of Ibadan,...
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Published in: 50.50Compromise with political Islam is impossible
On the 20th anniversary of the fundamentalist assassination of Algerian educator Salah Chouaki, Karima Bennoune...