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Published in: 50.50: FeatureVenezuela’s ‘warrior women’ fighting for equality on the football field
Women players go without salaries, sometimes without water in the showers, but their drive and determination remain...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureLatinas for marijuana! Meet the women fighting to decriminalise cannabis in Mexico
Feminists say new proposals to legalise the recreational use of cannabis must go hand in hand with women’s rights
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Published in: 50.50: NewsWomen plan major protests for abortion rights across Italy
This weekend, feminists are calling on women across Italy to oppose a new regional act that allows anti-abortion...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsYouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent 'conversion therapy'
In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua’s controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel. Facebook...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewChallenging traditional 'masculinity' in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
Gustavo Barbosa, author of ‘The Best of Hard Times’, discusses the Shabab, the offspring of the Fedayeen – and how...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?
Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationHow oil, cocaine and armed conflict threaten the survival of the Awá people
'In our territories, the entry of different people and companies exploiting resources is advancing'
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Published in: HomeWhat is misogyny? An update
'What is really remarkable about this horrible death is the outpouring of sympathetic grief across the nation in response.'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: InterviewFeminism, war and racism: an interview with Christine Delphy
'Above all, we have to ask ourselves what have we achieved? What can we do as French or European women?'
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationTucupi, a spicy sauce to stop Amazon deforestation
In the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous women are planting chillies to end their communities' reliance on the cattle...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsGeorgia grants legal gender recognition to trans woman for first time
In a historic first, the conservative country of Georgia granted an appeal by a trans woman to change her gender on...
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Published in: 50.50: Interview20 years of marriage equality: how the Dutch inspired the world
Two decades after fighting for marriage equality, veteran gay rights activist Henk Krol reflects on that struggle,...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAnti-trans activism by some UK queer people is shocking and damaging
The alarming wave of anti-trans activism in the West threatens to undermine rights in less privileged parts of the world
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionStop imposing your imperialist Western transphobia on my people
Societies across the world acknowledged and celebrated gender-diverse communities – until the British arrived to...
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Published in: 50.50: FeaturePakistan’s trans community is still living with the violence of empire
Despite laws protecting trans rights, people face stigma, poverty and murder, thanks in part to a damaging colonial past
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHow a viral video helped Kuwait’s trans women get their fight back
A defiant video by Maha Al-Mutairi about her experience as a trans woman has inspired people to believe that change...
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Published in: 50.50US Catholics funded Malawi opponents of legal abortion in cases of rape
After condemning abortion reform as an imposition of “foreign cultures”, a religious group in Malawi took thousands...
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘I’m a Yemeni trans man and my family want to kill me’
Yahyia Al-Zindani had to flee his homeland in fear of his life but continues to do all he can to support Yemen’s...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsEU urged to take action against ‘dark money’ targeting women’s rights
openDemocracy appeared this week at a special European Parliament hearing about foreign interference and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUnholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justice
As the far Right unites, it is time that we also stand together and strengthen our ties