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Published in: Home: NewsGrave reality of global violence against queer women and non-binary people
Governments need to take urgent action on funding and protection for LBQ+ movements across the world, says NGO
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Published in: 50.50: NewsMeta’s attempt to dodge trial in Kenya thwarted by judge
A lawsuit alleges forced labour, human trafficking and union busting in Facebook’s content moderation hub in Nairobi
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureFamily’s plea over Belgian-Tunisian woman found dead in police cell
Sourour Abouda is the third person of North African descent to die in unexplained circumstances in Rue Royale.
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Published in: Podcasts: OpinionChina gives scholarships to Africans but then moves the doctoral goalposts
Lots of African students are studying for PhDs in China – but why is it so hard to graduate?
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Published in: 50.50: NewsMurder of gay activist triggers trauma for Kenya’s LGBTIQ community
Violent death comes to LGBTIQ Kenyans too often, too early and in too many ways: hate crimes, suicide and domestic abuse.
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘The day Ghana’s anti-LGBTIQ+ bill is passed, I will be in jail’
Ghana’s only openly trans musician Angel Maxine speaks out on the dangers of a proposed anti-LGBTIQ bill
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisWhat African feminist movements are up against in 2023
Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisTunisia may end up with an all-male parliament – by design
President Kais Saied has made it harder for women to run for office, reversing a decade of gains from gender quotas
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFacebook is responsible for my dad’s death, alleges a man suing Meta
A new lawsuit claims the tech giant has failed to moderate harmful content that incites violence in Africa
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionHow we got Uganda to strike out a colonial law criminalising poor people
The offence of being ‘rogue and vagabond’ saw people detained for how they looked. Now it’s gone, but there’s more to do
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionSenegal failing to tackle misogyny amid growing violence against women
A Facebook group of men bonding over misogyny recently shocked the nation – but accountability is unlikely
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy ‘liberal peacebuilding’ isn’t delivering for DR Congo’s ethnic minorities
Focus on elections, investment and climate change has ignored serious threats to vulnerable Congolese groups
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Published in: Home: FeatureWhy Africa signed up for eight new fossil fuel projects at COP27
African leaders say oil and gas projects will provide energy security and jobs. Their true effects are more sinister
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Published in: Home: InvestigationUK overseas aid still invested in fossil fuels – two years after climate pledge
Revealed: Records show the FCDO’s British International Investment fund has continued to back major polluters
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Published in: Home: FeatureThe Global South needs urgent action on COP27’s loss and damage deal
Exclusive: Farmers suffering worst droughts in 40 years tell openDemocracy how their communities are being destroyed
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Published in: 50.50: NewsGhana’s legal chief signals support for anti-LGBTIQ bill in blow for equality
Godfred Yeboah Dame criticised some clauses as unconstitutional, but backed the proposed law in principle
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionEurope’s migration policies are about limiting Black freedom
OPINION: Border policies and hellish journeys are meant to control African movement in space and time
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Published in: 50.50: NewsTwitter firings have ‘serious consequences’ for rights, campaigners warn
Twitter’s disbanding of its Africa office and human rights team poses a threat to information across the continent
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisHow gendered violence is used to try to silence Zimbabwe’s female politicians
Men are weaponising online abuse and physical violence to keep women’s voices out of politics
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Published in: Home: AnalysisPriti Patel’s deportations deal with Zimbabwe is putting lives at risk
Successive hard-right home secretaries have created a Home Office that prioritises immigration figures over human rights