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Published in: 50.50Ken Clarke, Strauss-Kahn, Yale and SlutWalks: rape, consent and agencyIn recent weeks, one word has dominated the headlines: rape. The events worldwide have shown how rape remains in the...
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Published in: 50.50Landmines data. Rape dataHow many rapes are too many in war? Of course, one violent sexual attack on a woman is one too many. A single...
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Published in: 50.50If this is 'peace', when does it start for women?'The word "reconciliation" hurts me', Bakira Hasecic says. 'All I want is for those who have hurt me to be brought...
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Published in: HomeNot the Only Survivor in the Village
Survivors of gender based violence and their supporters can deliver powerful messages for peace, reflects Betsy Kawamura.
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Published in: 50.50The security sector: an awkward space for engagement
Alongside powerful arguments against militarism, we are hearing an increasingly significant voice from within the...
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Published in: 50.50In touch with the world
Afghan MP Shinkai Karokhail talks about the importance of women making international connections and sharing their...
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Published in: 50.50Peace negotiations: did you carry a gun?'If sons are fighting, doesn't it make sense for their mother to help make peace?' Jenny Morgan reports on...
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Published in: 50.50Horror and hope meet hand in hand
Blogging from the Nobel Women's Initiative conference, Laura Carlsen sees the strength in the women gathered there...
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Published in: 50.50Making the impossible possible
Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams talk about strategies for change, drawing on their experiences of...
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Published in: 50.50Jessica Horn discusses militarism
Jessica Horn, writer, women’s rights consultant and openDemocracy 50.50 blogger, discusses her thoughts on different...
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Published in: 50.50Hopes and expectations: ending sexual violence in conflict
The Nobel Peace laureates, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams and Mairead Maguire, open the third international conference...
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Published in: 50.50The pragmatism of hopeHope may be a rare word in the discourse of realpolitik that frames much official discussion on conflict and...
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Published in: 50.50Professor Wangari Maathai speaks
Professor Maathai, noted activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, presents her message to the third international...
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Published in: 50.50No rubber stamping here
Anyone who's never been to a big feminist conference doesn't know what they're missing. It's not just the jokes that...
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Published in: 50.50We must not make war safe for women"We can not pluck rape out of war and let the war go on. We must not make war safe for women. It is time to abolish...
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Published in: 50.50Prevention is the cure“There is a reason that international institutions have been so slow to move on this agenda - it is because impunity...
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Published in: 50.50'Wounded warriors': sexual assault in the US military
Sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce commissioned Gallup to do a...
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Published in: 50.50Aung San Suu Kyi on sexual violence in conflict
Nobel Peace Laureate and honorary member of the Nobel Women's Initiative, Aung San Suu Kyi, sends her support to the...
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Published in: 50.50The mass crime of rape: ending impunity
A group of us gasped when one tiny mother of five, who looked no older than my 20-year old daughter, lamented, “When...
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Published in: HomeBreaking the conspiracy of silence
"I was 12 years old.....my anguish ended when my family left Okinawa after this man had paid me $5 during our last...
