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Published in: 50.50Poem: For the mamas on the frontlines"I said, if mamas don’t fight for the children, then who will?" Helen Knott performed her poem at the 2017 Nobel...
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Published in: 50.50Video: Voices from the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference
Participants at the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference talk about memory, activism after trauma, what women's...
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Published in: 50.50How to fight gun violence in Trump’s AmericaWe must double down on grassroots, community activism. Even with Trump in office, women can and must organize to end...
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Published in: 50.50A feminist revolution demands climate justiceTo change everything, it takes everyone, and to fight oppression, we must fight it in all forms, at all times. This...
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Published in: 50.50Women fight back: from survive to thriveIn the Trumpian world writ large, the feminist struggle is more acute than ever. 13-16 May, the Nobel Women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Nobel Women’s Initiative at 10: When We Are Bold“It is time to stand up, sisters, and do some of the most unthinkable things. We have the power to turn our...
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Published in: 50.50The distance travelled: Beijing, Hillary, and women's rightsHillary Rodham Clinton will need to listen to the voices of women working at grassroots on the frontline, and be...
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Published in: 50.50Hope's song: my companion in life's journey
On my way from Zimbabwe to Amsterdam I shared a seat with a man called Musi. He was curious about how I became a...
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Published in: 50.50Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war
Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women’s Initiative...
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Published in: 50.50Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is security
It feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of 'safety' that are really about...
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Published in: 50.50Sabeen Mahmud: “I stand up for what I believe in, but I can’t fight guns”
Sabeen Mahmud alleviated intellectual poverty until the day she was murdered, 24 April 2015. In an interview with...
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Published in: 50.50A tribute to Joan Kagezi: the murder of a human rights defender
Joan Kagezi was a lead prosecutor in high profile cases in Uganda, including against a former LRA commander and...
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Published in: 50.50Women human rights defenders: reigniting the embers
The profile of today’s front line activist is different to that of the freedom fighter of old. We need to see her in...
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Published in: 50.50Mairead Maguire: breaking the silence on Palestine
Palestinian women human rights defenders and peace makers, in resisting the injustices being perpetrated upon their...
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Published in: 50.50Defending the Defenders: a daunting challenge
Women human rights defenders are under attack. The Nobel Women's Initiative conference convenes today to deepen the...
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Published in: 50.50At the margins of visibility: recognising women human rights defenders
Every small act that stands up to patriarchy or to inequality, whether it is asking to go to school, or refusing to...
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Published in: 50.50Women human rights defenders: protecting each other
With the continued failure of the UN to implement the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders twenty years after it...
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Published in: 50.50Awaiting justice: Indigenous resistance in the tar sands of CanadaThe Nation of the Lubicon Cree is on the frontlines of environmental destruction, as it challenges the forces behind...
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Published in: 50.50"It starts with us": Breaking one of Canada's best kept secretsA coalition of women human rights defenders in Canada is demanding an end to state complicity, and a culture of...
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Published in: 50.50Iranian women human rights defenders: challenges and opportunities
If President Rouhani honours his promises and 'de-securitises' the general atmosphere, the work of women human...
