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Published in: 50.50A French debate on prostitutionBack from Paris where she has been interviewing prostitutes, politicians, police, and feminists who argue both for...
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Published in: 50.50“Kind sirs, stop beating your wives!”
Day-to-day, Chadian women are beaten, humiliated and crushed beneath the weight of traditions. However, women were...
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Published in: 50.50Chers messieurs, arrêtez de battre vos femmes!
Quotidiennement les femmes tchadiennes sont battues, humiliées et écrasées sous le poids de traditions. Pourtant la...
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Published in: 50.50India: examining the motivation for rape
Were Ram Singh and his cohort simply claiming a notion of masculinity promoted every day by their role models in...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the Islamization of state policy
Fears that Egypt’s constitution will be used to inhibit freedoms and enhance the powers of the Islamists in power...
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Published in: 50.50Rebuilding Somalia
The appointment of two Somali women in key ministerial posts must not mask the massive day to day persecution of...
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Published in: 50.50A problematic discourse: who speaks for Arab women?
Placed between the First Lady and the Diplomat at the recent Trust Women conference on the 'Arab spring', Ala'a...
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Published in: 50.50Making finance work for womenJust as it is not an inherent feature of the financial system to work against society, it need not be the case that...
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Published in: 50.50Kenya: the women who stand to be counted
Women in Kenya's second largest slum, Korogocho, face forced evictions, domestic violence and rape as a weapon of...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s rights and the rule of law: education and implementation
Legislative victories are important in changing society to eradicate injustices like forced child marriage, but such...
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Published in: 50.50'Culture' clash: the law, women's rights and real-world solutions
When culture trumps law to undermine women's rights, new forms of culture can help women in the struggle for...
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Published in: 50.50Driving women out of the workforce
Pregnant women in the UK are reporting blatant cases of unfair – and unlawful – treatment. Basic health and safety...
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Published in: 50.50A long road ahead for Yemeni womenWomen led many of the protests, and were vital in the sustainability of the movement during the Yemeni revolution,...
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Published in: 50.50What kind of feminism does war provoke?
The to-ing and fro-ing about ‘women’s peaceful natures’ is no more than an excitable bubble of argument out of touch...
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Published in: 50.50No more 'machismo': domestic violence in the political arenaDomestic violence in Spain can’t be blamed on ‘machismo’ argues Liz Cooper. When the statistics show Spain is just...
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Published in: 50.50Taliban: agent or victim?In their attempt to assassinate girl-activist, Malala Yousufzai, has the Taliban inadvertently rescued the narrative...
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Published in: 50.50South Kordofan: activism, resilience and sacrifice
Sudanese women's rights organisations that fled South Kordofan last year are rebuilding their networks, and women...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Indian cities
A Gallup poll finding that women in Rwanda and Bangladesh felt safer on the streets than women in the UK and Sweden...
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Published in: 50.50Where we must stand: African women in an age of war
Whether one considers the direct effects of military rule and conflict on women, or the global economic implications...
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Published in: 50.50Within the hell of war lies a private hell
It is easy to think of impunity as a sin of omission. The hand not raised in protest appears genteel alongside the...
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