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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a space that isn't our ownLast month a young woman was mob attacked on Cairo University campus. Socially and culturally constructed circles...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism in action: Rewriting France's colonial pastFrançoise Vergès talks to Kathleen B Jones about her life's work interlinking issues of women's oppression with...
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Published in: 50.50CSW: Arguments for reducing the intense time burden of women's unpaid care workUnpaid care work is one of the major barriers to women's rights, economic empowerment and poverty reduction. Will...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: Gender equality and morality as citizenshipTwenty years after South Africa's first democratic elections, Chantelle de Nobrega explores what we can we learn...
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Published in: 50.50Troop withdrawals and women’s rights in Afghanistan
The ‘liberation of Afghan women’ was part of the dominant rhetoric used by international forces to justify military...
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Published in: 50.50US: why Women's History Month?Every generation of little girls and women needs to learn its past so that it can imagine a future in which gender...
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Published in: 50.50Contesting patriarchy-as-governance: lessons from youth-led activismYouth-led mobilisation has mocked and exposed patriarchal power by unmasking its politics of social control. Are we...
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Published in: 50.50CSW weather vane: fault lines and prospects for women's human rights
As battles over women’s human rights rage on around the world, governments have gathered in New York this week to...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist peacebuilding - a courageous intelligence
There are patriarchal reasons why women are disproportionately made to suffer in wars. It should not be surprising...
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Published in: 50.50African cyberfeminism in the 21st centuryHow are African feminist activists navigating the potential and the power dynamics of communication in the digital...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist Africa: putting Africa’s feminist thinking on the intellectual map
This month oD 50.50's platform Our Africa launches a special collaboration with Africa’s leading gender studies...
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Published in: 50.50Plotting for a woman-shaped peace: Syrian and Bosnian women conferBosnian women live with the malign consequences of a peace agreement engineered by internationals between male war...
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Published in: 50.50The anti-women gag law in Afghanistan: the pitfalls of hasty conclusions
Does the new criminal procedure code in Afghanistan signal the demise of all efforts to curb violence against women?...
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Published in: 50.50The war against contraception: “Women need to be liberated from their libidos."
The new Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires all health plans to pay for contraception. Some religious...
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Published in: 50.50The Liberty Train: "Because I Decide"A women’s group on the northern coast of Spain devised a plan to fill a train full of protestors against Government...
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Published in: 50.50Gender-based censorship
Gender-based censorship, which takes many forms, can be seen in attempts to stifle women’s public voice - from the...
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Published in: 50.50Acid attacks: showing my face, raising my voice
Women who have survived acid attacks are speaking out and refusing to have their identity destroyed. Samira Shackle...
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Published in: 50.50Why are women in Kenya still dying from unsafe abortions?
Kenya’s Constitution permits access to safe abortion, yet Kenyan women still resort to unsafe methods of termination...
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Published in: 50.50Unpaid care: the missing women’s rights issue
Unsupported and unshared care work perpetuates women’s poverty, political marginalization and social subordination....
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Published in: 50.50Syrian women demand to take part in the peace talks in Geneva
There are over fifty Syrian women in Geneva this week. They are demanding a ceasefire in Syria and to be part of the...
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