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Published in: HomeEgypt: the transition to democracy needs womenBoots-on-the-ground often plays itself out in the transitional period after deadly conflict: predominantly male...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim women
The arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: 50.50Women's citizenship:implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the result of last month's Southern Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and...
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Published in: 50.50Donor-driven Islam ?
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of...
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Published in: HomeEgypt's post-democratic elections: political meaning beyond the menu of manipulation
Egypt's recent elections went very much as expected. This, however, doesn't mean they were insignificant.
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Published in: 50.50Women’s citizenship: implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the outcome of the South Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and activism in...
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Published in: 50.50Positive women human rights defenders
When the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one...
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Published in: 50.50Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?
Woman-hating continues to occupy a central and too-often unrecognised and unchallenged position within our culture....
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Published in: 50.50Gender and the perils of identity politics in India
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around...
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Published in: 50.50‘N-A-T-O? What’s that stand for?’How can we cheer NATO for promising equality for women in an institution we deplore? We are saying: ‘military...
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Published in: 50.50Two inches below the neck
The battle to defeat the Indecent Dressing Bill in Nigeria marks another point in the struggle between feminists and...
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Published in: 50.50Faith in service: what has gender got to do with it?
Faith-based organizations are playing increasingly prominent roles in service delivery. However, the premise that...
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Published in: 50.50US Election 2010: Obama lost the terms of debate and a large segment of white women
The modern women's movement changed the terms of debate and eventually the national conversation. During this...
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Published in: 50.50No more 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'
As a political instrument of power projection and status, nuclear weapons carry a peculiarly masculine symbolism. In...
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Published in: 50.50Dissecting global civil society: values, actors, organisational forms
What we see in global civil society depends on what value lens we use to define it. The trend towards networked...
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Published in: 50.50Sterilisation: the fight for bodily integrity
Accessing justice has been a long process for the sterilized HIV positive women whose cases are being heard before a...
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Published in: 50.501325: an exciting moment
"If we’ve done as much with as little resources as women have, think what we could do with more. Women are the...
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Published in: 50.501325 and the violent world of small arms
Earlier this year the Philippines became the first country in Asia to launch a National Action Plan to implement...
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Published in: 50.50UN business: women, guns and small arms control
"It is not about feminism, it is about business. Member states give us money to implement projects, and if I...
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Published in: 50.50The secular state: protector of women's rights?
By relying on the secular state as the answer to the religious right and entrusting the Left with the protection of...
