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Published in: 50.50State racism and sexism in post-war Sri Lanka
Central to the resurgence of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism in post-war Sri Lanka is a redefinition of gender role and...
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Published in: 50.50A global sisterhood
A global feminism that transcends narrow national, cultural, religious and social boundaries is crucial. Radha Bhatt...
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Published in: 50.50The right to feel safe in public: addressing the root cause of sexual harassment
A new poll reveals that 19% of women in London have been physically abused and 32% have been verbally harassed on...
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Published in: 50.50Frozen progress: beyond the egg-freezing debate
Behind the headlines of Silicon Valley companies offering female employees the chance to freeze their eggs lie more...
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Published in: 50.50It's time for feminists to Get In, not Lean In.
The practice of patriarchy as a form of social governance has brought us to the brink of a planet crisis. The...
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Published in: 50.50A safe space to reclaim ‘normal’
When a distorted ‘normal’ oppresses our daily lives and experiences, Ché Ramsden says that feminist conferences like...
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Published in: 50.50Missing and murdered: Am I next?
Canada offers its Indigenous women a quality of life degraded by disproportionate danger, fear, and aggression. As a...
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Published in: 50.50The Fall: extreme violence as a distorted mirror of post-conflict Belfast
The most watched drama on the BBC for 20 years,The Fall, is about a serial killer in Belfast who murders and 'poses'...
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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: 50.50UK: indifference to ending discrimination against women
More than 30 years years after the British Government signed up to the Convention to Eliminate all Forms of...
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Published in: 50.50'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority...
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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: 50.50Whose recovery?: Gendered austerity in the UK
The impact of government spending cuts, combined with structural sexism in the UK, means that for British women,...
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Published in: 50.50Gender inequality in Spain: glass ceiling or steel barrier?
From the law of succession to domestic violence, from political representation to the judiciary and the boardroom,...
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Published in: 50.50Ending forced marriage in the UK: the problem with top down policy
As the GIRL Summit opens in London today, Sajda Mughal argues that the failure to include working with perpetrators...
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Published in: 50.50Women everywhere have their movement limited by the male gaze
Street harassment stems from patriarchal entitlement and male structural power that treats women as objects who...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and poverty in the UK: Inside the household and across the life course
Unravelling the components of couples’ incomes and investigating individual trajectories over the life course are...
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Published in: 50.50Women and Wikipedia: science and engineering’s forgotten labour
A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for National Women in Engineering Day addresses both the underrepresentation of female...
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Published in: 50.50Stopping sexual violence in conflict: gender politics in foreign policy
Consistent promotion of gender equality has to drive foreign, security and development policy if sexual violence in...
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Published in: 50.50'They accuse you of being divisive': an interview with Aamer Rahman
Aamer Rahman’s comedy addresses racism, Islamophobia, the war on terror and social justice from a perspective that...