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Published in: oDRChechnya’s fashion dictatorIn Chechnya, the warfare that rumbled on between 1994 and 2009 has been turned against the republic’s women. The...
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Published in: 50.50Accepted mishaps? Faith healing, HIV and AIDS responsesAs the 2012 International AIDS Conference gathers to review “the science”, Jessica Horn examines the powerful role...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion access in the US military – time for the MARCH Act
A Congressional bill has been proposed that will finally repeal the severe restrictions on American servicewomen’s...
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Published in: 50.50The use and abuse of honour based violence in the UK
The lack of accuracy in understanding honour based abuse in the UK has critical implications, not only for social...
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Published in: 50.50Mutilating bodies: the Muslim Brotherhood’s gift to Egyptian womenIn Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood have offered to circumcise women for a nominal fee as part of their community...
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Published in: 50.50The hijab or the bikini: the shaping of young girls’ sexuality
Where the line will be drawn between childrens' rights and parents’ rights will always be heavily contested. Issues...
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Published in: 50.50The gendered cost of NATO in Pakistan
Pakistan's Domestic Violence Bill has become the latest fatality in the barter between women's rights, NATO, and...
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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...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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Published in: 50.50Contraception: the new American soap opera
The war over contraception in America during the last bizarre month was never about religious freedom or women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Of mini-skirts and morals: social control in Nigeria
The push to police the way that women dress continues across Africa on the pretext that it causes sexual harassment...
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Published in: 50.50‘Gays, Gods and Governments': homophobia in Uganda
The drama playing out in Kampala over the tabling of the Anti Homosexual Bill for its first reading in the Ugandan...
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Published in: HomeThe Great Partnership: multiculturalism, faith and citizenship
Do the supposedly civilised values of human rights and responsible citizenry become exclusionary, used to divide...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the code of silence
Storytelling, in itself, will neither eliminate sexual violence nor entirely heal PTSD. But it can help shift the...
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Published in: 50.50Ending female genital mutilation in the UK
"It is only now we realise that female genital mutilation is child abuse, many people in our home country don’t...
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Published in: 50.50Rape: a basic tool of militarism
Women’s groups such as Women in Black have long led the way in challenging the mindsets and structures of...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s get real: female sexual pleasure and HIV prevention
The dominant HIV intervention response assumes that HIV transmission only occurs in contexts of danger and...
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Published in: 50.50Forced marriage in the UK: hidden from view
Plans by the government to criminalise forced marriage in the UK will put women and girls at even greater risk of...
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Published in: 50.50South Korea: destroying the lives of the Haenyo ‘sea women’
A naval base being built on Jeju Island threatens to destroy the livelihoods of the iconic women shellfish divers...
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Published in: 50.50Unheard and unseen in Britain
Time and time again I hear from refugee women that they want to work and contribute to British society. A dignified...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureTrans people are caught in Ukraine’s war
