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Published in: 50.50A constitutional challenge to systemic discrimination
In the first case of its kind in Africa, a suit has been filed against Kenyan police for systemic discrimination in...
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Published in: 50.50India: breaking the supply chain of human beings
There are more than one million prostituted girls in India. "Only when the buyers of sex are arrested will the...
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Published in: 50.50Turning the tide of media sexism
Comedy and social media are targeting Britain's Page 3 culture. With Lord Leveson's inquiry lashing the tabloid...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Indian cities
A Gallup poll finding that women in Rwanda and Bangladesh felt safer on the streets than women in the UK and Sweden...
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Published in: 50.50Child soldiers, child wives: wounded for life
Working with ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army, and the girls they have taken as wives, has convinced Nobel...
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Published in: 50.50France: licence to rape?
A lenient gang-rape verdict has prompted outcry and a debate on France's inadequate response to rape. The French...
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Published in: 50.50The rise of the Erotocracy
Is the 21st century woman someone who doesn't have to choose between a career and kids, but is doomed to spend hours...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion rights in Spain: back to the past
Spain's conservative right is taking the opportunity whilst in power at a time of economic crisis to revive its...
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Published in: 50.50Kate Middleton: the female body in the post-Berlusconi media
The publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the backlash it evoked, reveal an uneasy and...
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Published in: 50.50Pregnant, detained, and subjected to force in the UK
Pregnant women are being held in immigration detention by the British government, violating statutory legislation,...
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Published in: 50.50Who's (still) afraid of the word 'vagina'?
Recent events in Britain, America and Australia have revealed a fear of the word ‘vagina’ in public discourse, in...
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Published in: 50.50Wasted lives: why do Chadian women still die in childbirth?
Government attempts to reduce the excruciatingly high maternal mortality and stillbirth rates in Chad are failing....
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Published in: 50.50Vies gâchées : Pourquoi les tchadiennes meurent-elles encore en couche?
Les efforts déployés par le gouvernement pour réduire les taux catastrophiquement élevés de mortalité maternelle et...
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Published in: 50.50Undressing Um Ahmad: Egyptian women between the bikini and the burquaa'
Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...
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Published in: 50.50أنا و أم أحمد و البيكيني
لأول مرة في تاريخ مصر, ترتدي سيدتها الأولى الحجاب و كما أثار زوجها قلق الكثيرون حول مدنية الدولة, أثارت زوجته القلق...
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Published in: 50.50Are hospitals safe for women living with HIV?
There is no shortage of documentation regarding the struggle of women living with HIV to access basic care, support,...
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Published in: 50.50التحرش الجنسي في الشوارع: كسر حاجز الصمت في اليمن
حوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات في مجال حقوق النساء...
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Published in: 50.50Street sexual harassment: breaking the silence in Yemen
Young women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Hope, pain and patience: HIV and sex workers
A year after the UN adopted a declaration in which member states committed to creating “enabling legal, social and...
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Published in: 50.50Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance
For the last month, #SudanRevolt has gripped Sudan. Last Friday, the protests brought the central role of women in...