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Published in: 50.50On the record: women in South KordofanThe majority of voters in the South Kordofan election in May 2011 were women. In the violence that ensued, women...
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Published in: 50.50Le Cameroun: une forme de violence sournoise en milieu scolaire
Dans la Région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, des pères privent leurs filles de leur droit à l’éducation. Aîssa...
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Published in: 50.50Cameroon: a subtle violence in education
In the extreme north region of Cameroon, fathers routinely deprive their daughters of the legal right to education....
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Published in: 50.50'Soft law' and hard choices: a conversation with Gita SahgalA conversation exploring the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for...
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Published in: 50.50Female suicide bombings in Pakistan - what's in it for women?
Islamic militancy in Pakistan appears to be mobilising women suicide bombers as part of its religious trope. This...
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Published in: 50.50Understanding contemporary violence in Central Africa: militarism, race, and gender
It is time to challenge the conventional explanations of gender based violence. Patricia Daley argues that it can...
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Published in: HomeTunisia: brief encounters, Part 1The author, who travelled to Tunisia last April, recorded her multicultural experiences at a time of revolution to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon SlutWalk: "no means no, Clarke must go"The SlutWalk protests came to London last Saturday, as part of a global show of solidarity challenging a 'rape...
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Published in: 50.50If this is 'peace', when does it start for women?'The word "reconciliation" hurts me', Bakira Hasecic says. 'All I want is for those who have hurt me to be brought...
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Published in: 50.50In touch with the world
Afghan MP Shinkai Karokhail talks about the importance of women making international connections and sharing their...
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Published in: 50.50'Wounded warriors': sexual assault in the US military
Sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce commissioned Gallup to do a...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women demand justice
The systematic use of sexual violence along with torture, cruel and degrading treatment – such as the common use of...
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Published in: 50.50My right, my responsibility
Nairobi Women's Hospital treated more than 300 women who had been gang raped in the aftermath of the contested...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in Pakistan: the real verdict
The gang-rape of Mukhtaran Mai launched a nine-year court battle that concluded with a verdict by the Supreme Court...
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Published in: HomeOld and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic,...
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Published in: HomeFrance's "Battle of the Veil"Many commentators have dismissed the French ban on wearing the niqab as a xenophobic reaction, writes Marie Gilbert....
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: 50.50Two million dollars: a patriarchal bargain
The murder of two men by a CIA agent in Pakistan raised issues of masculinist national sovereignty and honour, and...
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Published in: HomeStates, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism
In India, the existence of deep religious diversity has ensured a conceptual response not only to problems within...
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Published in: 50.50Shirin Ebadi: who defines Islam?
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic...
