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Published in: 50.50Freedom to speak? No-go areas and unsafe spacesAt the heart of the debate on free speech and censorship are contested understandings of where power resides. Where...
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn: Labour’s gift to British women?Jeremy Corbyn's Working with Women policy document has been well received by feminists, but the silence on the...
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Published in: 50.50Believing women's narratives in Sweden and NorwayToo often women's oppression is sidelined as a lesser cause, and women's experiences dismissed, as two cases in...
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Published in: 50.50Those who believe in freedom: Yara SallamYara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women's prison outside Cairo. She says, "I do not...
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Published in: 50.50Pragna Patel: a politics of hope and not hate"At the heart of my work is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist...
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Published in: 50.50Why are so many Syrian children being left stateless?
Syrian women advocates recognize the links between the crisis of statelessness and the lack of reproductive justice...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict widows: agents of change and peacebuilding
The rise of religious fundamentalism and conflict is diminishing widows to the status of a chattel. Their key role...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion in Chile: addressing the false debate of "pro-life vs pro-death"
Chile is one of only four countries in the world that prohibits all abortion, but for the first time in 25 years a...
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Published in: 50.50The UK's missing girls: preventing online radicalisationLess than 4% of Muslim mothers who attended a programme in Britain to equip them with basic IT skills knew who ISIS...
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Published in: 50.50Holier than thou?: The anti-imperialist versus the local activist
Local gender activists in the Arab world face both censure from their own societies, and attacks by US-based...
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Published in: 50.50The pacifist dilemma: women peacemakers’ responses to Islamic StateCan non-violent strategies defeat the new fascism of Islamic State and its allies? Women peace makers’ hopes and...
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Published in: 50.50Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war
Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women’s Initiative...
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Published in: 50.50Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is security
It feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of 'safety' that are really about...
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Published in: 50.50Sabeen Mahmud: “I stand up for what I believe in, but I can’t fight guns”
Sabeen Mahmud alleviated intellectual poverty until the day she was murdered, 24 April 2015. In an interview with...
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Published in: 50.50Iranian women human rights defenders: challenges and opportunities
If President Rouhani honours his promises and 'de-securitises' the general atmosphere, the work of women human...
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Published in: 50.50Violence compared: rape in Turkey and India
There are striking similarities in the responses to rape and murder cases of women in India and Turkey: a...
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Published in: 50.50Men in charge? Rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition
The new book Men in Charge? shows that the assumption that God gave men authority over women is a theological...
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Published in: 50.50Sharia law, apostasy and secularism
Opposing religious fundamentalism is a dangerous political activity. It is not a distraction from ‘real’ politics -...
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Published in: 50.50When scarred female bodies demarcate the Indian subcontinent's polityThe Lightning Testimonies, an acclaimed feminist exhibition, comes to Assam, and its powerful images speak to the...
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Published in: 50.50The gender wars in Turkey: a litmus test of democracy?The pent up fury and grief released by Özgecan Aslan’s attempted rape and gruesome murder reveal deep fault lines...
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