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Published in: 50.50On the warpath: the young women leading Ireland’s campaign against abortion
Next year Ireland will hold a referendum on its controversial eighth amendment. Articulate, millennial “pro-life...
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Published in: 50.50Osunality: sex lessons from Africa
There’s what you think you know about sex in Africa. And then there are sensual and beautiful aspects of African...
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Published in: 50.50“It’s so taboo but we want it so damn bad”: introducing 50.50 columnists Tiffany Mugo and Claudia Torrisi
These 50.50 authors will delight and challenge us with monthly comment and analysis about sexuality in Africa, and...
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Published in: 50.50Reproductive rights on the move: refugee women in Greece struggle to access contraception
Half of female asylum-seekers in Europe are aged 18-34. With little control over their environments, how can they...
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Published in: 50.50"They are coming for your children" – the rise of CitizenGo
The right-wing campaigning platform has coordinated mass online petitions – and offline actions. Its reach is...
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Published in: 50.50The future of sex in Africa
Stigma and growing religious fundamentalism are preventing women from fully accessing a range of reproductive health...
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Published in: 50.50Coitus and conversation: the digital realm is taking sex to new levels
What is the future of sex? Forget robots and tech-enabled fornication. There is progressive potential in the digital...
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Published in: 50.50Abortire in Italia: come l'obiezione di coscienza è diventata una minaccia per i diritti e la salute delle donne
Quasi 40 anni dopo la legalizzazione dell'aborto – tra proteste e movimenti di liberazione culturale – le donne...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion in Italy: how widespread ‘conscientious objection’ threatens women’s health and rights
Almost 40 years after abortion was legalised – amid mass protests and a broader cultural liberation movement – women...
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Published in: 50.50Re-branding hate?: ultra-conservative organising under a "family-friendly" banner
Diverse groups are joining international “pro-family” alliances. Their common cause? To block and roll back feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual rights: off-limits for Indian women with disabilities?
Women with disabilities in India face routine violence, coercion and control over their sexual choices that would...
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Published in: 50.50How do we fight anti-rights fundamentalism at the United Nations?
An extract from the first report of a new initiative tracks how fundamentalist groups have embraced the UN as a site...
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Published in: 50.50Monsters, jealousy and “sick love” — how the Italian media covers violence against women
Statistics give partial pictures of gender-based violence in Italy – but the language used to cover such violence...
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Published in: 50.50Older women living with HIV in the UK: discrimination and broken confidentiality
Women accessing HIV care services in the UK report being told to use separate cutlery, being refused help to shower,...
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Published in: 50.50'Faith and family': shrinking common ground at the UN CSW
The Worldwide Organization for Women took a hard line against all forms of comprehensive sexual education, often...
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Published in: 50.50Queer and trans issues are sidelined again at the United Nations CSW
The language of sexual orientation and gender identity remains absent from the draft conclusions of the Commission...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist pacifism or passive-ism?
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In the face of increasing femicide, sexual violence and rape culture, we need...
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Published in: 50.50Out of the box: Megan Prescott on Skins, bodybuilding and busting gender roles
Megan Prescott discusses her experiences of gender inequality, public scrutiny and subverting stereotypes as a young...
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Published in: 50.50India's female genital mutilation: a thousand-year-old secret
So little was known, until recently, about the secretive practice of FGM in a small Muslim community that India is...
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Published in: 50.50Under Trump, we are all women
The same strategies used against women for decades by the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement are now,...