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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women's rights: no time for dissent
The act of dissent should match the need for equality, rather than the time for equality. In the fight for a right,...
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Published in: 50.50Masculinity and phallic narcissism
What is it that creates the kind of behaviour that leads men to destroy the lives of women they profess to love,...
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Published in: 50.50Salaam and Paz: the word for Peace is Women
Situated far from sites of official peace negotiations, women’s activism, caretaking and community-building is often...
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Published in: 50.50Domestic violence in Sri Lanka: the power of alternative discourse
The Prevention of Domestic Violence Act has opened up an important and new discursive ‘space of struggle’ to debate...
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Published in: 50.50Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? Women and work post-crash
The value of women’s unpaid and undervalued work is slowly beginning to be appreciated: the time is right for a...
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Published in: 50.50The missing link in women's human rights
Gender incompetent policies and hierarchical understandings of rights dominate global economic governance...
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Published in: 50.50Shackles different from my own: building an intergenerational women's movement
Inclusion and representation are at the centre of the many struggles for women's human rights, and are equally...
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Published in: 50.50Our bodies as battlegrounds
From Kyrgyzstan to Brazil and Sri Lanka, young feminists are trying to shift the debate over sexual and reproductive...
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Published in: 50.50The world's girls: no voice, no rights
How can we address the global threat to women's rights with no space for girls’ - or even women’s - voices at the...
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Published in: 50.50#SetHerFree: a spectrum of solidarity for refugee women
The campaign against detaining refugee women must be part of the movement against violence against women and girls....
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Published in: 50.50The triple whammy: towards the eclipse of women’s rights
Caught in the cross-fire of political opportunism, neo-liberal triumphalism and geopolitical adventurism, feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Ched Evans: football in the eye of a perfect storm
This feels like the first time that sex and violence, football, capitalism and democracy have crashed into each...
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Published in: 50.50Addressing Northern Ireland’s incomplete peace: young feminists speak out
Organising around a belief in feminism’s ability to articulate and represent visions of peace and politics, a new...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a reality too dark in which to glimpse hope?
The last known message from the Egyptian activist Zainab Mahdy reads, " It's like we're digging in water...There is...
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Published in: 50.50G20 and corruption: why gender matters
Research indicates that when a gender participation "tipping point" has been reached there will be genuine change in...
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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...