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Why get married? How Julia Margo changed her mind

Published on: 27 November 2018

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

We explore the value of direct experience in changing people’s minds, as well as delving into why it’s harder to...
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Humanitarian response in Lebanon: changing social norms or reproducing them?

Published on: 11 April 2018

Written by: Lana Khattab All articles by Lana Khattab

While gendered realities are increasingly acknowledged and addressed by international organisations and agencies, in...
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Meet the Tunisian drag queen defying the odds

Published on: 26 February 2018

Written by: Chouaib ElHajjaji All articles by Chouaib ElHajjaji

On the frontline of the LGBTQIA movement in Tunisia, a trans non-binary drag queen is revolutionizing and leading...
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Tunisia: selective feminism and the marginalization of women’s struggles

Published on: 5 February 2018

Written by: Safa Belghith All articles by Safa Belghith

It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political...
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Human trafficking begins at school

Published on: 2 August 2017

Written by: Pilar Cuartas Rodríguez All articles by Pilar Cuartas Rodríguez

Sister Genoveva is a 70-year old Colombian nun. She teaches city kids on human trafficking and she objects that the...

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The backlash against sex education in the UK will ultimately harm children
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Listening to the stories of Boko Haram’s wives
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The ‘new right’ is not a reaction to neoliberalism, but its offspring
Published in: Dark Money Investigations
Think tank won’t reveal who paid for report calling Extinction Rebellion ‘extremists’
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Uncertainty and elections in Argentina
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Granting Julian Assange political asylum was "the right thing" to do
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Trump’s peace plan and the future of Palestine
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How Ukraine’s old guard are trying to get back into parliament
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3 ways to ensure the Climate Assembly really addresses the climate emergency
Published in: openJustice
"They told me to stop crying at night": How the UK is failing asylum seeking children
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Trade negotiations and the triple trouble for health and the NHS
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For Joshua, racism and austerity carved a channel from autism to prison
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‘It’s a good day for a chokehold’
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An agenda for a new internationalism
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