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Published in: 50.50Sri Lanka: where are the women in local government?The women party activists who applied for nominations to stand in next week's local elections in Sri Lanka found...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: from equality of purpose to equality on the ground
"We acted together and we all adhere to the same values: justice, compassion, and unity, and these values are...
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Published in: 50.50The rightful place of gender equality within Islam
An animated discussion is taking place about the relationship between Islam and equality and justice in the context...
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Published in: HomeStatement from the Coalition of Women's NGO's in Egypt
Women's NGOs in Egypt denounce the decision of the National Council of Women to represent their views at...
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Published in: 50.50Pakistan: the Taliban's successful marriage of dogma and custom
That the guardians of women's virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: the transition to democracy needs women
Boots-on-the-ground often plays itself out in the transitional period after deadly conflict: predominantly male...
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Published in: HomeHow the left is losing the war on traffickingBased on her fieldwork research on Filipinas in the sex industries in Japan, the author examines the traps and...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim women
The arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: 50.50Women's citizenship:implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the result of last month's Southern Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist politics: creating alliances for justice and democracy
If the goals of economic and gender justice cannot be pursued in tandem, and if solid transnational alliances cannot...
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Published in: 50.50Critical intersections: the politics of gender and religion
Understanding the prominence of religions and their effects on the politics of gender defies facile explanations,...
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Published in: 50.50Donor-driven Islam ?
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of...
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Published in: 50.50Mobilising for Muslim women’s rights in India
The emerging Muslim women-led networks in India are challenging the authority of the religious elite to represent...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s citizenship: implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the outcome of the South Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and activism in...
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Published in: 50.50A tangled web: the politics of gender in Turkey
Although the women’s movement in Turkey has scored major victories in the realm of legal reforms, there is a...
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Published in: Shine A Light“We weren’t born asylum seekers”
For women seeking asylum in the UK the tales of persecution, flight and exile, of children and families left behind,...
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Published in: 50.50Positive women human rights defenders
When the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one...
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Published in: 50.50Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?
Woman-hating continues to occupy a central and too-often unrecognised and unchallenged position within our culture....
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Published in: 50.50Gender and the perils of identity politics in India
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around...
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Published in: 50.50The unhappy marriage of religion and politics
Subtle and overt forms of resistance notwithstanding, it is clear that women’s rights advocates need to be vigilant...
