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Published in: 50.50The mass crime of rape: ending impunityA 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...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women demand justice
The systematic use of sexual violence along with torture, cruel and degrading treatment – such as the common use of...
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Published in: 50.50Who do they think they are? War rapists as people
War is social, and examining soldier identity and male bonding may give us insight into how the incidence of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence and war: inevitable?
A key reason for the seeming ubiquity of sexual violence in war is not its inevitability, but the impunity...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence: the healing imperative
How far do our post-conflict reconstruction efforts go when it comes to addressing the trauma and loss that women...
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Published in: 50.50My right, my responsibility
Nairobi Women's Hospital treated more than 300 women who had been gang raped in the aftermath of the contested...
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Published in: HomeThe Arms Trade Treaty: why women?
It would not be possible to rape women in front of their communities and families, on such a large scale in much of...
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Published in: 50.50Redefining security: human rights and economic justice
Security is impossible without people’s freedom to organize and defend their rights, a cornerstone of the exercise...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in Pakistan: the real verdict
The gang-rape of Mukhtaran Mai launched a nine-year court battle that concluded with a verdict by the Supreme Court...
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging the architecture of human relations
"The essential problem in relation to our predicament as women, but also with our world, is the architecture of...
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Published in: 50.50Shirin Ebadi: who defines Islam?
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in Turkey: between incitement, complicity and silence
The debates triggered by a 14-fold increase in violent crimes against women in Turkey in the last seven years have...
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Published in: 50.50From Tahrir square to my kitchen
Despite the vibrancy of mobilization in Egypt after Mubarak, Hania Sholkamy’s account of the 8th of March...
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Published in: 50.50"The rising of the women means the rising of us all"
In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement had a badge that proclaimed: women who seek equality with men lack...
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Published in: 50.50Promise and peril: women and the ‘Arab spring’
Women were visible and effective in the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Will this moment of opening yield...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism and the soul of secularism
Secularism, as a concept, appears to be in danger from both the left and the right. Among feminists, it tends to be...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the two faces of liberation
"The goddess Sekhmet has risen once and will rise again so Hathour can flourish in peace and justice" - Zainab Magdy...
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Published in: 50.50Rocking the cradle - and the boat
Global funding for HIV/Aids now goes to large international organisations. They need the grassroots organisations to...
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