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Published in: 50.50Nigeria: women on the outskirts of politicsWith only nine women senators representing 54 million women in Nigeria, international support should focus on the...
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Published in: 50.50The Occupy movement and the women of Greenham Common
Feminist experience and input into the theory and practice of nonviolence has much to offer a new generation of...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the code of silence
Storytelling, in itself, will neither eliminate sexual violence nor entirely heal PTSD. But it can help shift the...
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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: 50.50Rape: a basic tool of militarism
Women’s groups such as Women in Black have long led the way in challenging the mindsets and structures of...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s get real: female sexual pleasure and HIV prevention
The dominant HIV intervention response assumes that HIV transmission only occurs in contexts of danger and...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: of bombs and banks and transformation...
Thirty years into the AIDS pandemic, an AIDS-free generation is in our grasp at last. Alice Welbourn asks whether we...
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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: 50.50Religion, gender and migration: beyond 'obedience vs agency’
It is time that debates surrounding religion and migration in the UK move beyond the almost monolithic focus on...
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Published in: 50.50Peace can be planned. Just like health
"Violence can be prevented. This is not an article of faith, but a statement based on evidence" (WHO 2002). Scilla...
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Published in: HomeSeen and not heard: women in Sri Lanka's reconciliation commission
Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission has no mention of gender in its mandate and no dedicated...
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Published in: 50.50Mad Women on the MarchThe Fawcett Society believes that the UK coalition government has broken the law in not assessing the impact of...
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Published in: 50.50The spread of female Islamic leadership
As increasing numbers of articulate women use Islamic sources to defend varying ways of life, they are challenging...
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Published in: 50.50South Korea: destroying the lives of the Haenyo ‘sea women’
A naval base being built on Jeju Island threatens to destroy the livelihoods of the iconic women shellfish divers...
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Published in: Shine A LightA thousand feminists, a million acts of violenceThe UK government says it wants to end abuse against women and girls but at the same time it is cutting vital...
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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: 50.50"Feast with your enemies" - Dekha Ibrahim AbdiWhat do I do differently as a result of knowing this great woman? I utterly believe in the power of one local person...
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Published in: 50.50Transforming our woundedness for peace" I refuse to be a victim: I am a resource for peace": Dekha Ibrahim Abdi 1964-2011
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Published in: 50.50Unheard and unseen in Britain
Time and time again I hear from refugee women that they want to work and contribute to British society. A dignified...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the battle over hope and morale
The deliberate attempt to discredit women's rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a...
