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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Feminist Fall?
Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Women's winter of discontent
Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict and Custom in the New World Order : a conversation with Gita Sahgal
"There is a struggle to be had. It is time to challenge the hegemony of the formal human rights movement and its...
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Published in: 50.50'Soft law' and hard choices: a conversation with Gita Sahgal
A conversation exploring the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons of the hummingbird
In the company of souls departed and souls vibrantly alive, Jessica Horn reflects on the significance of the lives...
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Published in: 50.50"Mighty be our powers": peaceful women and the global south
“We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context. Namely, if one fails to...
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Published in: 50.50Women Nobel Peace Laureates congratulate three new women Laureates
The women Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative—Jody Williams (USA), Shirin Ebadi (Iran), Mairead Maguire...
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Published in: 50.50Female suicide bombings in Pakistan - what's in it for women?
Islamic militancy in Pakistan appears to be mobilising women suicide bombers as part of its religious trope. This...
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Published in: 50.50Professor Wangari Maathai remembered
Following the death of Professor Wangari Maathai, noted activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, we remember her...
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Published in: 50.50Understanding contemporary violence in Central Africa: militarism, race, and gender
It is time to challenge the conventional explanations of gender based violence. Patricia Daley argues that it can...
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Published in: 50.50Burkina Faso: " Restons Debout "
Les agricultrices du Burkina Faso sont en train de s’organiser pour dénoncer les politiques agricoles erronées...
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Published in: 50.50Burkina Faso: "Let us remain standing"
Women farmers in Burkina Faso are organising to denounce the misguided agricultural policies adopted by the state....
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Published in: 50.50Clearing ground: planting the seeds of Our Africa
On the launch of Our Africa, co-editor Jessica Horn reflects on the lives of two formidable Africans, Wambui Otieno...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the cycle: step by step in Smethwick
The Somali refugee community in Smethwick is less than ten years old. Muni Abdikarim and Ahmed Sirad spoke to Jenny...
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Published in: 50.50From civil war to the cult of cool
The policy of dispersing migrants in Britain has led to large numbers of Somali refugees in Smethwick, a town...
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Published in: 50.50Women on the French left: political heavyweights? or mothers, daughters, and ‘potiches’?
The ascendancy of Martine Aubry as a main Socialist Party candidate for next year’s Presidential elections and the...
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Published in: 50.50Sudan: a lonely road for women MPs in opposition
With the secession of South Sudan on July 9th, North Sudan returns to a familiar and depressing status quo - one...
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Published in: 50.50Women, food security and peacebuilding: from gender essentialism to market fundamentalism
Is gender equality advocates' emphasis on women as agents of change helping to legitimize a neo-liberal vision of...
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Published in: 50.50A wound that shames our present
In proposing to remove the most basic safeguards for migrant domestic workers, Jenny Moss asks whether the UK...
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Published in: 50.50The "calm down dear" factor writ large: AIDS, women and the UN
In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to...