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Published in: 50.50Monsters, jealousy and “sick love” — how the Italian media covers violence against womenStatistics 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 EuropeCould 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 anthologyEdited 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 ArabiaPervasive 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 developmentThe 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 quotaTribal 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 LibertyWill 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 capitolDrawing 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 ChinaAfter 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 violenceAs 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 celebrityQandeel 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 itThe 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 NiemollerThe 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...
