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Published in: 50.50Our Africa: mapping African women's critical resistance
Echoing through analysis on Our Africa over the past year is a recognition and interrogation of women as authors and...
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Published in: 50.50La faim et le patriarcat au Cameroun
Les femmes de la région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun sont confrontées à une combinaison difficile de violence et de...
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Published in: 50.50Hunger and patriarchy in Cameroon
Women in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon face a brutal nexus of violence and hunger. As long as women remain...
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Published in: 50.50Chez Morsi : palace petitioners and street entrepreneurs in post-Mubarak Egypt
As soon as Egypt’s first democratically-elected Islamist leader moved into the Presidential Palace, the surrounding...
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Published in: 50.50The call of Sudanese women human rights defenders
Women activists challenging the fundamental structures of their communities and calling for new terms of peaceful...
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Published in: 50.50Somalia: a call for sisterhood
In the run up to next week's Presidential election in Somalia, Zainab M. Hassan writes an open letter to new women...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating peace: Somaliland women’s experiences
Somaliland women’s narratives have largely been absent from accounts in state and nation building in Somaliland, yet...
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Published in: 50.50We Are Fed Up! The power of a new generation of Sudanese youth activists
The recent protests in Sudan attest to the rise of a new generation of Sudanese youth activists. At the heart of...
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Published in: 50.50Wasted lives: why do Chadian women still die in childbirth?
Government attempts to reduce the excruciatingly high maternal mortality and stillbirth rates in Chad are failing....
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Published in: 50.50Vies gâchées : Pourquoi les tchadiennes meurent-elles encore en couche?
Les efforts déployés par le gouvernement pour réduire les taux catastrophiquement élevés de mortalité maternelle et...
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Published in: 50.50Agency within Ethiopian sex work: withstanding violence
Beyond the simplistic dichotomies within western feminism on the nature of sex work there is a complex picture in...
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Published in: 50.50Senegalese youth: taking a stand
The recent elections in Senegal signalled the emergence of a youth consciousness in the country. Young Senegalese...
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Published in: 50.50Undressing Um Ahmad: Egyptian women between the bikini and the burquaa'
Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...
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Published in: 50.50أنا و أم أحمد و البيكيني
لأول مرة في تاريخ مصر, ترتدي سيدتها الأولى الحجاب و كما أثار زوجها قلق الكثيرون حول مدنية الدولة, أثارت زوجته القلق...
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Published in: 50.50Are hospitals safe for women living with HIV?
There is no shortage of documentation regarding the struggle of women living with HIV to access basic care, support,...
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Published in: 50.50Hope, pain and patience: HIV and sex workers
A year after the UN adopted a declaration in which member states committed to creating “enabling legal, social and...
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Published in: 50.50Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance
For the last month, #SudanRevolt has gripped Sudan. Last Friday, the protests brought the central role of women in...
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Published in: 50.50Accepted mishaps? Faith healing, HIV and AIDS responses
As the 2012 International AIDS Conference gathers to review “the science”, Jessica Horn examines the powerful role...
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Published in: 50.5050 Ans d’indépendance au Burundi: envers une gouvernance pour la paix
A l’heure ou le Burundi s'apprête à célébrer les cinquante ans de proclamation d’indépendance le tableau est sombre...
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Published in: 50.50Burundi at 50: towards a governance of peace
As Burundi celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its declaration of independence, the landscape is bleak: impunity,...