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Published in: 50.50Every act of violence is a choice
“Sometimes we need to name the abnormal as abnormal, and take action to defend what is normal!” - Shereen Essof....
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Published in: 50.50Crime not shame: challenging the ideology of rape
Decades of feminist activism against rape has produced a world that now, formally, officially, and legally, at least...
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Published in: 50.50Wangari Muta Maathai: "I've been thinking..."
Small and big things, local and global, bridging the communities of the elite and the every day, never losing the...
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Published in: 50.50Peace of mind
If some of us had hoped to walk away with a global plan of action rather than a series of personal commitments stuck...
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Published in: 50.50If this is 'peace', when does it start for women?
'The word "reconciliation" hurts me', Bakira Hasecic says. 'All I want is for those who have hurt me to be brought...
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Published in: 50.50Perpetuation and perpetration: the momentum of violence
So many armed men began their lives as victims of loss and grief. So many have gone on to become the source of...
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Published in: 50.50Horror and hope meet hand in hand
Blogging from the Nobel Women's Initiative conference, Laura Carlsen sees the strength in the women gathered there...
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Published in: 50.50The pragmatism of hope
Hope may be a rare word in the discourse of realpolitik that frames much official discussion on conflict and...
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Published in: 50.50Wounded warriors: sexual assault
The phenomenon of sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce...
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Published in: 50.50Who do they think they are? War rapists as people
War is social, and examining soldier identity and male bonding may give us insight into how the incidence of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Redefining security: human rights and economic justice
Security is impossible without people’s freedom to organize and defend their rights, a cornerstone of the exercise...