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Published in: 50.50Monsters, jealousy and “sick love” — how the Italian media covers violence against women
Statistics give partial pictures of gender-based violence in Italy – but the language used to cover such violence...
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Published in: 50.50How Rojava-inspired women's councils have spread across Europe
Could this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing...
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Published in: 50.50The things I would tell you: British Muslim women speak out in new anthology
Edited by Sabrina Mahfouz, this timely collection of essays, plays, short stories and poetry celebrates the...
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Published in: 50.50Uncomfortable assumptions about security: the UK vote on support for Saudi Arabia
Pervasive and problematic assumptions about the UK’s security lie at the heart of parliament’s recent decision to...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and fundamentalism: when religion muscles in on development
The truism that there cannot be real development without women’s participation needs a caveat: women’s rights cannot...
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Published in: 50.50Nagaland and the fight for a women's quota
Tribal bodies dominated by men, protesting against a 33 percent reservation for women to participate in public...
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Published in: 50.50Should domestic abuse have its own law?
In the UK, there is no specific offence for 'domestic violence'. Is the law failing women seeking justice?
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Published in: 50.50Trump's slap in the face of Lady Liberty
Will women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The...
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Published in: 50.50Women storm the capitol
Drawing from the ground, SASHALYNILLO captures the raw energy of the Women's March on Washington.
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Published in: 50.50Is the Indian law on domestic violence fit for purpose?
In the first of this three part series, we examine the effectiveness of one of the major planks of the domestic...
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Published in: 50.50Are we all beheaded Copts?
Is the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya associated with a broader political project of cleansing...
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Published in: 50.50A long road: domestic violence law in China
After 20 years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, China now has its first domestic violence law. The...
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Published in: 50.50I Love Dick: what makes a feminist classic?
Chris Kraus's feminist classic I Love Dick, reissued in paperback this year, confronts the reader with complex...
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Published in: 50.50The fraught road to justice: Sri Lankan victims of sexual violence
As more women testify about their experience of sexual violence in Sri Lanka the path to redress does not become...
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Published in: 50.50What has Hindu law ever done for women?
India’s long overdue Uniform Civil Code, a set of common personal laws for all citizens, guaranteed by its...
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Published in: 50.50The dishonourable killing of a Pakistani social media celebrity
Qandeel Baloch’s murder fuelled the debate over women’s sexuality, their lives, and their deaths. Her ‘honour’...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind it
The reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular...
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Published in: 50.50Islamist terrorism: chilling echoes of Pastor Niemoller
The Islamists have us all in their sights. We are all targets. It is incumbent upon us all to speak up. Being Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Piece of Silk: "When story-telling is a matter of life and death"
The play, Piece of Silk, is a powerful study of the experiences of women survivors of domestic abuse - an experience...