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Published in: 50.50Guns, war and the domestic battlefield
As guns proliferate in a worldwide market with few controls, many get diverted from state and rebel armies to petty...
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Published in: 50.50A brutal manifestation of patriarchy
The involvement of women in anti-war actions and in support of peace activism worldwide is a critical part of modern...
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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: 50.50Child soldiers, child wives: wounded for life
Working with ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army, and the girls they have taken as wives, has convinced Nobel...
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Published in: 50.50"Don’t talk to me about war. My life’s a battlefield."
When we’re looking for the links between war violence and male violence against women in peace time, we need to look...
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Published in: 50.50UK: the power of the women’s vote
Resistance to viewing women as a homogenous block can all too often provide politicians with an excuse to ignore...
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Published in: 50.50Longing for ‘normality’: women’s experience of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina after 17 years, Cynthia Cockburn finds Bosnian women criticizing their country's...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential
Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been...
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Published in: 50.50Australia: the Prime Minister who redefined misogyny
The Australian Prime Minister's recent speech about “repulsive double standards on misogyny and sexism” in the House...
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Published in: 50.50Speak clearly and drive a big motorbike - on the road to equality in Danish politics
Politics will always be a man’s world if you listen to the men, says Danish MP Liselott Blixt. She told her own...
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Published in: 50.50Strengthening democracy: tackling the over-representation of men
Democracy can only win the global struggle for ascendancy if women rise too. Marion Bowman reports on a London...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism in Tunisia: reading between the lines
The Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50The decline in 'missing women' in Bangladesh
Alarm about the declining ratio of girls to boys in the Indian population, evidence of a particularly lethal form of...
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Published in: 50.50The rise of the Erotocracy
Is the 21st century woman someone who doesn't have to choose between a career and kids, but is doomed to spend hours...
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Published in: 50.50Our Africa: mapping African women's critical resistance
Echoing through analysis on Our Africa over the past year is a recognition and interrogation of women as authors and...
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Published in: 50.50Everyday feminism vs everyday sexism
A debate about the feminist economy cannot be brought to the school gates, but a discussion on sexting, advertising...
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Published in: 50.50The issues that divide: building a diverse feminist movement
Recognition that identity politics had immobilised and fragmented the women's movement has driven the search for...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism: co-opting women’s voices
Feminism is being used by some states as a political proxy to gloss over economic policies that hurt women,...
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Published in: 50.50UK feminists: fighting for rights not privilege
The utter disregard for women that austerity represents has galvanised and united women at a time where we are...
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Published in: 50.50The call of Sudanese women human rights defenders
Women activists challenging the fundamental structures of their communities and calling for new terms of peaceful...