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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAnti-trans campaigners can’t be allowed to ban trans kids from playing sport
Sport has numerous benefits for trans youths – yet 80% feel their gender identity has prevented them from taking part
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Published in: 50.50: NewsNHS failures contributed to death of trans activist Sophie Williams, coroner finds
At the time of Williams’ death, she’d been waiting for an appointment at a gender identity clinic for nearly five years
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe mental health crisis in women’s prisons
Experts slam the government’s £1.5m plan to create more jail places in England as prisoners’ self-harm rates soar
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisThe feminist movement in Eastern Europe: struggles in a changing landscape
Women’s rights movements in the region have faced challenges ranging from war to the rise of anti-gender activism
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Published in: Home: Feature‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre
A year after Derwentside detention centre opened, one woman reveals the impact that being held there had on her
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureKicked out of court for crying: ‘How the inquest system failed my cousin’
Gaia Pope was failed by the police and NHS – and now by the justice system. Her cousin speaks to openDemocracy
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Published in: Home: FeatureHow the cost of living crisis is hurting students
Exclusive: As maintenance grants fail to keep pace with inflation, students on low incomes struggle to get by
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHow trans footballers are finding community in grassroots sport
Vicious backlash against trans people in sport hasn’t stopped players finding supportive, nurturing teams
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Published in: Home: FeatureThe ‘hostile environment’ is 10. It blighted these women’s lives
A decade after Theresa May declared a ‘hostile environment’, many immigrants to the UK are stuck in legal limbo
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘My thoughts will kill me one day’: mental health crisis for Kashmiri women
Three decades of conflict in the Himalayan valley have resulted in a drastic surge in mental health issues,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer’s speech – the best thing since stale bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us today. It’s you
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Published in: ourNHSBritain’s struggling mental health services are on the brink of a new crisis
As waiting lists grow in the wake of the pandemic, communities in England and Wales are being forced to bridge the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAccess to mental health in the Maré favelas in Rio: a fight that comes from within
Health professionals, residents and local institutions in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, fight the precariousness of...
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Published in: Home: Opinion‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men
Progressives need to learn from the Netflix show’s battles against toxic masculinity. And the Fab Five need to...
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Published in: ourNHSTo address mental health, we need to build a compassionate society, not just websites
Mental health campaigners are putting pressure on government to take more fundamental action on the mental health...
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Published in: ourNHSThe government must act to end this child mental health crisis
Children have been particularly hard hit by mental health cuts, with 150 turned away from the care they need every...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhy Indigenous people are more vulnerable to mental health problems?
Today – 9th August – is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The purpose of this Day is, among...
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Published in: Frontline InsightsA culture of care: helping activists and their allies look after themselves
Self-care is often the last thing on the minds of frontline human rights defenders. But it is the only thing that...
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Published in: ourNHSThe latest multi-billion pound move in NHS privatisation – is the endgame in sight?
Private healthcare firms have just been offered a substantial say in deciding how billions of pounds of NHS mental...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProfessional solidarity with Palestine: a mental health imperative
Palestinian mental health professionals will continue critical dialogue of the occupation until its hegemony is...