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Published in: 50.50The next UN Secretary-General: administrator, figurehead, or leader?
Public interviews for the job of the next UN Secretary-General are continuing in New York. Female candidates are...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: how deep is the change?
Is optimism in the future of revolutionary change misplaced in a region torn apart by war and a society where...
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Published in: 50.50For domestic abuse survivors, Kosovo’s justice system can be fatal
Proponents of family values preach respect for mothers, but expect those same mothers to simply endure abuse within...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: on the hoof
Rojava is a fast moving, dynamic place where things change by the minute. What are the material conditions which...
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Published in: 50.50Furthering freedom of religion and belief in Muslim-majority countries
Ballot boxes before a culture of toleration for diversity of beliefs takes root in the minds of people can make...
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Published in: 50.50From Pondi to Paris: Pondicherry's marriage market
Marriages between Pondicherrians who took French nationality in 1962, and those who chose to remain Indian, reveals...
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Published in: 50.50What is driving the increase in child marriage in Bangladesh?
Human rights activists in Bangladesh say that if draft legislation being considered by the government is passed it...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: engaging men and boys in ending violence against women as allies not protectors
Without a feminist lens, the expanding efforts to work with men and boys to promote gender justice are often...
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Published in: 50.50A woman’s place? The British House of Commons
The House of Commons exists to represent the people, yet the history of what constitutes ‘people’ has enshrined it...
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Published in: 50.50Cuba: through her eyes
What do Cuban women imagine for their country’s future? In the wake of recent reforms, Cyd Bernstein talks to four...
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Published in: 50.50Mona Eltahawy and sexual revolution in the Middle East
'Traumatised into feminism,' Mona Eltahawy speaks of her decision to unveil and understanding that 'Muslim women’s...
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Published in: 50.50A brand of manliness that is bad for the world
While women’s movements fight for empowerment, what is now destroying men is, paradoxically, the expectation to be...
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Published in: 50.50Global Femicide Watch
Dubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, explains to Yakin Erturk why she is calling...
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Published in: 50.50International Rights of Nature Tribunal: Pachamama vs ‘macho papas’
Parallel to COP21, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal convened in Paris. The ‘climate crimes’ it heard were...
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Published in: 50.50Are children sacrificed in the interests of an abusive father's right of access?
Spanish law recognises children as direct victims of gender violence, but an abusive father's right of access on...
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Published in: 50.50The Day You Catch the Fish: speaking out on domestic abuse
Violence is manifested in so many ways, yet it is always the violence that comes within the domestic space that...
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Published in: 50.50Nepal: the struggle for equal citizenship rights for women
Nepal's new constitution was widely celebrated as progressive, but restrictions on a woman's right to pass on...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women in Spain: who cares?
Ahead of the election all the political parties commented on the level of violence against women, but public concern...
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Published in: 50.50Ghana: women at war in a country at peace
The absence of war does not necessarily imply peace for women. The binary opposites of war and peace obscure the...
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Published in: 50.50The end of China’s one child policy: the right to reproduce and the right to live well
China's one-child policy fundamentally changed the most intimate aspects of Chinese lives. It's removal last month...