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Published in: 50.50Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistanceIn conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...
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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: 50.50February 20 movement: reflections of a young activist
The 20th February movement was seen by some as elitist and too focused on political demands, while the people were...
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Published in: 50.50Football and the game of politics in EgyptThe Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' call for an official inquiry into football violence, following the deaths...
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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: 50.50Faith: know thy placeThe feminist critique of religion should not appease the strident voices which label secularism as fundamentalist or...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating the Arab spring from within
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...
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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: 50.50Freedom 'to’ and freedom 'from’: rebalancing the tension in favour of gender equality
The various social contracts that are emerging between the State and the dominant religious right minority...
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Published in: 50.50What Iran wants from female religious authority: piety - yes, expertise in fiqh - no
More than a hundred women's seminaries have been set up by the Iranian state since the 1979 revolution. Yet the...
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Published in: 50.50Development and religion: ambivalent policy, grounded practice
Development policy seems to swing between a Marmite-style love-it-or-hate-it approach to religion. Yet practice on...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of belonging in Britain
'There is no opposite to belonging’: Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Jenny Allsopp on religion, migration and...
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Published in: 50.50The Saudi response to the ‘Arab spring’: containment and co-optionSaudi Arabia’s response to the ‘Arab spring’ has been an attempt to co-opt movements for change in a bid to maintain...
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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: 50.50Forced 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: 50.50On the record: women in South Kordofan
The majority of voters in the South Kordofan election in May 2011 were women. In the violence that ensued, women...
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Published in: 50.50Female suicide bombings in Pakistan - what's in it for women?
Islamic militancy in Pakistan appears to be mobilising women suicide bombers as part of its religious trope. This...
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Published in: HomePart 2. Tunisie Profonde: spring, summer and the coming electionsOn her return from Tunisia, the author kept in touch with some of the young people in the south, and began a diary...
