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Published in: 50.50A call to engender Turkey’s peace processTurkey’s agenda for peace aims to overcome the decades-old Kurdish question and raise democratic standards. While...
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Published in: 50.50India's anti-rape movement: redefining solidarity outside the colonial frameThe horrific rape of a student sparked a remarkable movement against sexual violence in India which has forced the...
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Published in: 50.501% FeminismSince Sheryl Sandberg has taken it upon herself to jump-start the stalled feminist revolution it’s worth taking a...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of sexual harassment in Spain
A scandal related to women’s rights and the socialist party in Spain, PSOE, broke out last month on International...
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Published in: 50.50A war against women: The CSW declaration and the Muslim Brotherhood riposte
The statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in response to the UN Commission on the Status of Women draft Agreed...
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Published in: 50.50Will academia ever graduate from sexism?From the sexism of fresher’s week to under-employment after they graduate, to the closed walls of the highest...
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Published in: 50.50Women and the post-2015 agenda: are you on board the ark?
With the roller-coaster of the CSW just finished and the resignation of UNWomen Director Michelle Bachelet, the next...
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Published in: 50.50Panzi hospital: a critical pulse for justice, peace and health
Congo's women survivors, standing in solidarity with Dr Mukwege and his staff at Panzi hospital, have become donors...
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Published in: 50.50The cost of masculine crime
Men are, by a huge margin, the sex responsible for violent, sexual and other serious crime. The economic cost of...
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Published in: 50.50Afghanistan: the blind pursuit of peace and reconciliation
Our peace process is a vessel for enabling more human rights violations to ensue in the near future. We need the...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond a war of words: will the UN agree to act to end violence against women?
The 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women opens today with member States - and thousands of...
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Published in: 50.50A transformative strategy: the true value of investing in women’s rights
What happened to the largest pot of money ever made available for advancing gender equality and human rights?...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains
Among all the social movements of the past century, the struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has been the...
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Published in: 50.50'Traditional values' vs human rights at the UN
A dangerous process is taking place in the UN system that threatens the universality of human rights by seeking to...
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Published in: 50.50Violence, gender and HIV in the UK
Internationally, the reciprocal links between HIV and gender based violence are well documented. Yet in the UK NHS...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the US military – uncomfortable powerLast week saw the lifting of the ban on women in combat in the US military. How will this change the dynamics within...
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Published in: 50.50Female Islamic leadership in Sweden
In Sweden, women establish religious authority as they are appointed leaders in Muslim youth associations. Their...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Morocco: political and religious power
Whilst women are struggling to gain access to parliament in Morocco, in the religious field they are gaining ground...
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Published in: 50.50Bringing the radicalism of Seneca Falls into the 21st centuryA century and a half after the Declaration of Sentiments and Rights, President Obama’s nod to Seneca Falls, Selma...
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Published in: 50.50Of rights and risks: are women’s human rights in jeopardy?
Human rights instruments have enabled women’s movements to access a normative and analytic framework for fighting...
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