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Published in: 50.50Dealing with the past: "There must never be a hierarchy of pain"
"I would like you to come with me to explore the past through the eyes of victims and survivors. It is difficult a...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Northern Ireland: sharing the learning
In the last two years, more than 600 women peacebuilders have met on a cross-community and cross-border basis to...
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Published in: 50.50Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging
Meriam Ibrahim Yahya is incarcerated and shackled in Sudan's Omdurman Women’s Prison. Her twenty month old child and...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Northern Ireland should be leading peacebuilders again
Women Together played a crucial role in the peace process. As violence and tension mount again, Anne Carr argues...
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Published in: 50.50Women Together in the darkest days of the 'Troubles'
Women Together brought Catholic and Protestant women into talks and cooperation in the 1970s, standing in solidarity...
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Published in: 50.50Muslim women and the Met: Only a pawn in their game
The attempt by British police to get Muslim women to inform on their friends and relatives as part of a...
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Published in: 50.50Peacework: women in action across Europe
The full engagement of women at all levels of negotiations is essential in order to promote nonviolent solutions...
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Published in: 50.50Dealing with Northern Ireland’s past: a guide to the Haass-O’Sullivan talks
In late 2013, negotiations seeking to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland failed to reach agreement....
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Published in: 50.50Insulting the women of Northern Ireland
Racist abuse directed at the politician Anna Lo is indicative of the disrespect shown to women in Northern Ireland...
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Published in: 50.50The holistic approach to peacebuilding: From hubris to practicalities
In 50.50's series of articles marking the centenary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,...
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Published in: 50.50Why are the hopes of the Good Friday Peace Agreement still unfulfilled?
At the launch of 50.50's series on women peacebuilders in Northern Ireland, we explore the connection between the...
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Published in: 50.50Women's power to stop war: Hubris or hope?
In the first of a series of articles marking the hundredth year of the Women's International League for Peace and...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria post-election: The democratic struggle continues
Steadfast in the face of a witch-hunt and physical attacks against their members, the Barakat citizen's movement...
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Published in: 50.50Gender violence, Narendra Modi and the Indian elections
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a good chance of winning the forthcoming general election in India. Amrit...
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Published in: 50.50Sri Lanka: women in conflict
What happened to the aspirations of Tamil women in the national liberation struggle which lasted nearly 30 years?...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist peacebuilding - a courageous intelligence
There are patriarchal reasons why women are disproportionately made to suffer in wars. It should not be surprising...
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Published in: 50.50No sex, some lies and a video: Pakistan's Taliban impasse
It was not an act of violence against women but a macabre video that led to the abortion of this round of peace...
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Published in: 50.50Bosnia and the universal theme of police brutality
In the Bosnian protests of the last months, the global scenario of police brutality has been re-enacted, with local...
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Published in: 50.50Plotting for a woman-shaped peace: Syrian and Bosnian women confer
Bosnian women live with the malign consequences of a peace agreement engineered by internationals between male war...
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Published in: Shine A LightRefugee women in the UK: fighting back from behind bars
The experience of female asylum seekers is distinct to their gender, particularly when survivors of rape and...