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Published in: 50.50Human trafficking: from outrage to action
If we are to have any chance of addressing trafficking, we should work towards the elimination of labour recruitment...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the gridlock of climate change negotiations: learning from allies
An empowered civil society is itself an enforcement mechanism of human rights, transforming the human rights system...
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Published in: 50.50Climate and Indigenous Peoples: the real dispute at the UN
With both the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Summit underway at the UN, far more important...
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Published in: 50.50Whose recovery?: Gendered austerity in the UK
The impact of government spending cuts, combined with structural sexism in the UK, means that for British women,...
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Published in: 50.50Bio-insecurity and HIV/AIDS
Science and global funding of HIV prevention is seen as an investment in biosecurity, but unless prevention and...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and poverty in the UK: Inside the household and across the life course
Unravelling the components of couples’ incomes and investigating individual trajectories over the life course are...
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Published in: 50.50Unpaid care: the missing women’s rights issue
Unsupported and unshared care work perpetuates women’s poverty, political marginalization and social subordination....
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Published in: 50.50What's a woman worth?: wages and democracy in Cambodia
In demanding higher wages, Cambodian women are refusing the status of the proverbial “second-class (global)...
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Published in: 50.50Neoliberal neopatriarchy: the case for gender revolution
We are living in a distinctive moment when neoliberal capitalism and neopatriarchy converge. Male dominance is no...
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Published in: 50.50US Republicans and their “Female Troubles”
As the 2014 midterm elections loom on the horizon, American Republicans fear they may lose a sizable female vote...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Sierra Leone: Resisting dispossession
Women are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and...
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Published in: 50.50Misogyny in the Greek parliament and media: a problem no-one wants to deal with
Chauvinism and corruption work in tandem to stifle public life in Greece. The disparaging and dismissive treatment...
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Published in: Shine A LightEnding the stark choice: domestic violence or destitution in the UK
The introduction of the Destitution Domestic Violence concession in 2012 giving some migrant victims access to...
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Published in: 50.50Austerity and domestic violence: mapping the damage
Austerity has taken its toll on domestic violence provisions, in a fracturing that cuts across institutions, sectors...
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Published in: 50.50Who are the ‘illegals’?
The UK Immigration Bill has no clear targets: it gives ordinary individuals the power to decide. Will we use an...
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Published in: 50.50Is gendered austerity finally on the political agenda?
The 2013 Green Party conference made women and austerity one of its themes, while a new report from the Women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Creating a safe haven in the intersection of state racism and structural patriarchy
The UK Feminista’s summer school heard how female asylum seekers fight back against the intersecting injustices they face.
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Published in: 50.50Poverty: a human rights abuse in the UK
Internationally poverty has been recognised as a violation of human dignity and, when a consequence of government...
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Published in: 50.50Iraq: gendering authoritarianism
Women in Iraq bear the brunt of increasing levels of gender-based violence, inadequate infrastructure and poverty....
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Published in: 50.50Pan-Africanism: beyond survival to renaissance?
Addressing the African Union 50th Anniversary Heads of States Summit, Amina Mama challenged the gathering to...