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Published in: 50.50Women's human rights: Watering the leaves, starving the rootsWomen and girls are in the public eye, recognized as key agents in development as never before. So why doesn't the...
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Published in: 50.50A transformative strategy: the true value of investing in women’s rights
What happened to the largest pot of money ever made available for advancing gender equality and human rights?...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains
Among all the social movements of the past century, the struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has been the...
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Published in: 50.50Making visible the invisible: commodification is not the answer
If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic...
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Published in: 50.50Culture versus rights dualism: a myth or a reality?
Women’s human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin...
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Published in: 50.50"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...
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Published in: 50.50Visible players: the power and the risks for young feminists
From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the 'Arab spring' in the MENA region, the debate among young...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50What does transforming economic power mean?
Today's targeting of women in processes of realigning economic controls is perhaps quite unique. In order to unpack...
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Published in: 50.50Brazil: "state feminism" at work
How far can the flourishing "participatory state feminism" in Brazil expand into the state apparatus in order to...
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Published in: 50.50Peace movements: violence reduction as common sense
If one thing holds the overall movement of peace movements together it is the goal of violence reduction. There’s a...
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Published in: 50.50La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming care as a fundamental end in itself
In the global context of economic insecurity and emerging 'care crises', there is a real risk that the development...
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Published in: 50.50Sénégal: la terre à ceux qui la travaillent
Plus d’un quart de siècle de conflit armé, un tissu socio-économique complètement déstructuré, mais les femmes de...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico: the war on drugs is becoming a war on women
Women human rights defenders in Mexico are increasingly targeted, often by government forces, since drug war...
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Published in: 50.50Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistance
In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...
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Published in: 50.50The "Turkish model" : for whom?
In the aftermath of the Arab spring the “Turkish model” is being held out as an optimistic scenario for...
