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Published in: 50.50Banning nuclear weapons: point of no returnThe Nayarit conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons demonstrated beyond doubt that preventing...
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Published in: 50.50The anti-women gag law in Afghanistan: the pitfalls of hasty conclusions
Does the new criminal procedure code in Afghanistan signal the demise of all efforts to curb violence against women?...
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Published in: 50.50The UK government's stand against humanitarian disarmament
Why is the UK government boycotting a key multilateral conference on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons?...
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Published in: 50.50Forced sterilization and impunity in PeruBetween 1995-2000, 300,000 women in Peru, mostly poor indigenous peasants who did not speak Spanish, were forcibly...
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Published in: 50.50"Rehearsing the revolution": theatre in Israel-PalestineIn Israel/Palestine, former combatants are using the Theatre of the Oppressed to move towards an end to the...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s criminalise forced marriage: secular and Islamic perspectives
In a rejoinder to Amrit Wilson's article Criminalising forced marriage in the UK: why it will not help women,...
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Published in: 50.50Criminalising forced marriage in the UK: why it will not help women
New proposals to criminalise forced marriage are due for their penultimate reading in the House of Lords this month....
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Published in: 50.50Syrian women demand to take part in the peace talks in Geneva
There are over fifty Syrian women in Geneva this week. They are demanding a ceasefire in Syria and to be part of the...
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Published in: 50.50The rape victims prosecuted for "false" rape allegations
Gail Sherwood was raped three times by a stalker, forced to retract her allegations and sentenced to two years in...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual exploitation in street gangs: protecting girls or changing boys?
In its recent report on sexual exploitation in street gangs, the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England...
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Published in: 50.50The invisible men with the arms
When it comes to gender based violence in Arab transition contexts, it is not only state militarism we should be...
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Published in: 50.50Preventing abuse in the UK: a matter of education
A new campaign by the UK Government’s Home Office, This Is Abuse, is a critical step to preventing violence against...
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Published in: 50.50Immunity and impunity in peace keeping: the protection gap
Trafficking and sexual exploitation are an integral part of armed conflict and its aftermath. Madeleine Rees argues...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Bosnia: how war lives on in everyday life
Rape has been recognized as a war crime in international and Bosnian law, but women survivors seldom receive the...
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Published in: 50.50Political motherhood vs violence against mothersThe Activist Mothers of Xalapa have united their individual power as mothers to create a collective political...
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Published in: 50.50Syria: women, peacework, and the lesson from Bosnia
Below the radar of the Geneva-2 peace talks, Bosnian and Syrian women are meeting to discuss the lessons that must...
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Published in: 50.50Remembering Sunila, honouring women’s human rights defendersCharlotte Bunch pays tribute to Sunila Abeysekera (1952-2013), a courageous feminist and human rights advocate...
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Published in: 50.50A feminist defence of sex workers’ rights
In the international row over decriminalizing sex work, Geetanjali Misra takes issue with the on-line petition...
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Published in: 50.50Women demand freedom, not surveillanceIn the wake of the brutal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December 2012, Kavita Krishnan shot to international...
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Published in: 50.50Taking a comprehensive view of sexual violenceIt has been 9 months since the iconic Delhi gang rape. Even as women’s groups struggle to retain the focus on...
