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Published in: 50.50: NewsRevealed: Contraception inequality in Europe is widening
UK tops league in Contraception Policy Atlas, but access to birth control in other parts of Europe is worsening
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Published in: 50.50This new political party in Poland wants to ‘re-Christianise’ Europe
Father Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the...
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Published in: 50.50There’s a backlash against sex education in ‘Feminist Canada’
Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian Right, Ontario’s premier...
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Published in: 50.50We have to stop blaming ‘backward’ culture for FGM and child marriage
These issues have received increased global attention. But simple attacks on ‘tradition and culture’ just fuel the...
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Published in: 50.50FGM in the UK will only end if attitudes shift from within communities
A landmark FGM conviction last week heralds a welcome change. But ending this practice requires both criminal and...
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Published in: 50.50How French anti-abortion activists have used ‘digital guerrilla’ tactics
Les Survivants is an example of new anti-abortion activism in Europe targeting young people with digital tools and...
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Published in: 50.50I went inside a Colombian ‘youth camp’ run by anti-abortion activists
At a camp mixing extreme sports and extreme rhetoric, I saw how they’re training teenagers to join their fight...
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Published in: 50.50This is how anti-abortion propaganda gets into US cinemas
Amid open war on reproductive rights, anti-choice supporters of the new ‘Gosnell’ film want it to change hearts and...
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Published in: 50.50‘Dear reader, put yourself in the position of a child raped and denied an abortion’
I am a 14-year-old aspiring human rights activist and this is why I believe in women’s and girls' right to safe...
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Published in: 50.5028 abortion rights successes in 2018
For International Safe Abortion Day, on 28 September, we are celebrating 28 aspects of progress and success we’ve...
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Published in: 50.50US and Russian religious Right unite against ‘invasion of radical liberalism’
Anti-abortion and anti-LGBTIQ rights activists, politicians and religious leaders met in Moldova this month for the...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s bodies have become a battleground in the fight for Iran’s future
A regressive law to boost the population has restricted the reproductive choices and rights of all Iranian women....
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Published in: 50.50Argentina abortion vote divides the nation, from senators to doctors
The senate votes this week on a potentially groundbreaking bill to legalise voluntary abortion. Opponents include...
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Published in: 50.50This ultra-conservative institute has infiltrated the Polish state, on a relentless quest to ban abortion
Ordo Iuris is an extreme anti-choice group whose founders were ‘inspired’ by a controversial Catholic fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50How ‘conscientious objectors’ threaten women’s newly won abortion rights in Latin America
From Uruguay to Chile, medical staff are refusing to provide abortion services even after legalisation Español
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Published in: 50.50How El Salvador’s evangelicals have joined the backlash against women’s reproductive rights
The changing religious landscape in this historically Catholic country has not been good news for women, who live...
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Published in: 50.50Italy’s new government is bad news for women and minorities
There will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families...
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Published in: 50.50How did Northern Ireland lawmakers carve out an anti-abortion ‘ghetto’ within the UK?
Northern Ireland remains a blind spot for equality for women and members of the LGBTIQ community. Will Ireland’s...
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Published in: 50.50'A historic victory for women's rights': how the world responded to Ireland's abortion referendum
Media from the UK to Argentina react to the results of Friday’s vote, laying the path to legislation for safe...
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Published in: 50.50MPs criticise Facebook’s ‘not fit for purpose’ foreign ad ban as Ireland votes on abortion
British and Irish parliamentarians call for major changes to unregulated social media campaigning following...