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Published in: 50.50How the global women's movement shaped the UN international development agenda
Amid conservative backlash against women’s rights, how did feminist advocates ensure that the sustainable...
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Published in: 50.50Apply for a 50.50 women’s rights and corporate power reporting fellowship
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women at Sudan’s universities has been tolerated for far too long
Western agencies have focused on female genital mutilation in Sudan, but this isn't the only women’s rights battle...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMeet the Tunisian drag queen defying the odds
On the frontline of the LGBTQIA movement in Tunisia, a trans non-binary drag queen is revolutionizing and leading...
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Published in: 50.50Can Sierra Leone’s female secret societies be allies in the fight against female genital mutilation?
FGM is a deeply-rooted and widespread practice in the country. Can its locally-powerful practitioners help curtail it?
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 1: women and the far right
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...
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Published in: 50.50Activist Reham Al-Bader’s death in Yemen shows the dangers women face providing lifelines in conflict
Women in Yemen are challenging the death and destruction around them, often paying a heavy price. Yet, their voices...
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Published in: 50.50Evangelicals in South Africa are 'broadcasting hate masked as morality'
Christian right groups are adding to an already dangerous environment for women and LGBTQI individuals, by pushing...
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Published in: 50.50Divisive populists are a “main obstacle” to women’s rights
“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico City is an island in a sea of anti-abortion states – and the right to choose is threatened here too
Anti-choice activists are increasingly active in Mexico’s capital city, strategically targeting and “inciting fear”...
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Published in: 50.50The problem with populist gender equality-by-numbers
It’s important to have more women in public and political debates. But having a seat at the table isn’t the same...
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Published in: 50.50Why we’re Right: young women on the UK’s growing right-wing scene in their own words
Rejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain...
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Published in: 50.50Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedent
A potentially precedent-setting petition at the International Criminal Court could help human rights advocates and...
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Published in: 50.50Golden Dawn Girls documentary gives new voice to women in Greece's far-right elite
Why would women connected to leaders of the extreme nationalist party invite documentary cameras into their homes,...
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Published in: 50.50Why are women joining far-right movements, and why are we so surprised?
Women’s ‘shocking’ participation in far-right politics has received much media attention. But is this a new trend,...
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: 50.50How the Italian media have helped CasaPound ‘glamourise’ fascism
Some reporters have dangerously framed this violent movement and its female leaders as ‘beautiful,’ ‘clean-faced,’...
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Published in: 50.50We need to talk about how we learn to accept our own oppression
The more women stand up against bullies and harassment in our personal lives, the less we will tolerate them in our...
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Published in: 50.50How women are building feminist human security in the Americas
Across the region, women are forging alternative paths to real peace and security, rejecting militarisation and...
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Published in: 50.50We’re African women and we’re feminists
Feminism is not ‘un-African.’ This is a multi-generational, multi-layered movement of women across the continent,...