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Published in: 50.50Teaching gender inequality in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has been lauded for equal access to education for girls and boys, but textbooks and traditions continue to...
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Published in: 50.50How will António Guterres tackle the UN’s gender problem ?
Can António Guterres make good on his promises to advance gender equality as UN Secretary-General, or will “politics...
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Published in: 50.50Honduras: the battle to protect women human rights defenders
Protection of women human rights defenders must be based on recognizing not only their existence, but also their...
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Published in: 50.50Radio Mewat: radio by the people, for the people and of the people
The transformative power of community radio for young women in India is up against a central government ban on the...
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Published in: 50.50Táhirih unveiled: poet, theologian and revolutionary
Táhirih – an important figure in Persian history – helps us imagine a more diverse feminism and a more progressive...
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Published in: 50.50Repeal the Eighth: putting intersectionality into practice
A long-established conservative media frames the terms of abortion politics in Ireland. The pro-choice activism...
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Published in: 50.50The fraught road to justice: Sri Lankan victims of sexual violence
As more women testify about their experience of sexual violence in Sri Lanka the path to redress does not become...
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Published in: 50.50Feminists and feminisms come in many forms: Suspend judgment!
The responses of feminist activists to the Suspend Judgement! campaign reveal the hidden hierarchies of power and...
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Published in: 50.50Still no woman at the helm of the UN
António Guterres's election as the new UN Secretary-General is a stark illustration of how male-dominated...
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Published in: 50.50Redressing the UN's gender gap: how do the SG contenders compare?
Following an informal vote held at the UN in New York today, the UN Security Council will vote by acclamation...
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Published in: 50.50To build feminist futures, suspend judgment!
As feminist thinkers and activists, we must tackle not only the systemic discrimination embedded in the world...
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Published in: 50.50Hungarian 'women's health': stigma and coercion
Political and media institutions in Hungary are promoting a coercive culture of intervention in female bodies under...
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Published in: 50.50Nobel Women’s Initiative at 10: When We Are Bold
“It is time to stand up, sisters, and do some of the most unthinkable things. We have the power to turn our...
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Published in: 50.50Gloria Steinem: toward a feminist foreign policy
Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of...
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Published in: 50.50The Joyce Girl and the mad wives of modernism
Annabel Abbs' debut novel explores the life of Lucia Joyce - daughter of James - whose desire for an independent...
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Published in: 50.50Glass ceilings and Cinderella slippers: why the centre cannot hold
The AWID Forum in Brazil this year provided a model for rejecting the journey from the margin to the mainstream....
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Published in: 50.50On freeing Kenya's pastoralist communities from discrimination
An interview with Justine N. Leisiano on her work defending girls’, women’s and disabled people’s rights in the...
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Published in: 50.50Artivism: art as activism, activism as art
Art can be a powerful tool for activists. It can grapple with the world and bring about change. This piece explores...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist inclusivity and moving onto the agenda
While feminist activists fight for inclusion in social agendas, how far have women’s movements themselves met the...
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Published in: 50.50Taxing lives, trading women
Tax havens and international trade deals are feminist issues. At this year’s AWID conference in Brazil, activists...