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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: on the hoof
Rojava is a fast moving, dynamic place where things change by the minute. What are the material conditions which...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence and the culture of impunity in Nagaland
Perpetrators of sexual violence escape justice, while their victims are trapped between exhortations by women's...
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Published in: 50.50Furthering freedom of religion and belief in Muslim-majority countries
Ballot boxes before a culture of toleration for diversity of beliefs takes root in the minds of people can make...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: It’s raining women
In less than four years, the women’s umbrella organisation, Kongira Star, has set up an autonomous, grassroots,...
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Published in: 50.50Behind the murder of Berta Cáceres: corporate complicity
The corporate denial of violation of human rights in the death of Berta Cáceres reveals the web of complicities and...
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Published in: 50.50Women and the War on Drugs
Survivors and victims of the War on Drugs are travelling from Honduras in a caravan for peace, life and justice to...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava’s commitment to Jineolojî: the science of women
Travelling in Rojava is to witness the ways in which the different commitments to the revolution present a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Love in a time of hatred
To prevent terror requires radical acts and working with women. To build peace requires courage, determination,...
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Published in: 50.50A revolution for our times: Rojava, Northern Syria
Travelling in Rojava is to witness a revolution experimenting with a form of stateless, direct democracy with...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: ending impunity for gender-based crimes against women refugees
The CSW has called on UN member states to "address sexual and gender-based violence as an integral and prioritized...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: the way to empower women is to use CEDAW Article 5, not the CSW
The most effective international mechanism to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment is not the cumbersome...
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Published in: 50.50Madam Secretary-General?
With pressure mounting for the next UN Secretary General to be a woman, is it too much to ask that she also be a feminist?
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and peace: "We the people."
Feminism: a way of thought and a way of being that can and has made change. We must stand up for humanity now so...
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Published in: 50.50Britain's boycott of the UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks
With opposition to Trident growing, the British government has refused to join this week's UN multilateral nuclear...
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Published in: 50.50U.S. Defense: the question of women's roles in conflict
The U.S. Department of Defense has paid scant attention to local women in conflict as either aggressors, crucial...
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Published in: 50.50Who's missing from Syria's peace talks?
Those organising Syria’s peace talks must go beyond merely ticking the gender representation box. It's essential to...
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Published in: 50.50World Courts of Women: against war, for peace
At the World Court of Women meeting held in Bangalore witnesses to violence and injustice highlighted political...
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Published in: 50.50Japan's military sexual slavery: whose agreement?
The South Korea-Japan agreement on Japan’s military sexual slavery was announced on 28 December, 2015, but it...
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Published in: 50.50An intimate intifada
Recognizing and understanding Palestinian women’s unprecedented engagement in the latest wave of violence in Israel...
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Published in: 50.50John Kerry, where are women’s voices in the Syria peace talks?
The US may be tempted to congratulate itself for wrangling Russia to the table for the meeting on Syria’s peace...