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Published in: 50.50From Northern Ireland to Korea: the power of nonviolence and love in actionAs thirty international women peacemakers prepare to cross the DMZ with women from North and South Korea, Nobel...
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Published in: 50.50"There’s nothing left" - women’s future under the Conservatives in the UKWith a Conservative victory in the UK election, even deeper cuts are looming for women already in poverty and at...
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Published in: 50.50The masculinisation of complexityYou would think a peace movement would be the least patriarchal of all social movements but you can masculinise...
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Published in: 50.50World disarmament? Start by disarming masculinityMassive world military spending is driven by the profit motive of the arms industry and politicians’ weaponized...
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Published in: 50.50A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperityIt’s up to us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and...
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Published in: 50.50Speaking truth to power at the UN"This may be the last time our voice is heard here…" excerpt from the Women's International League for Peace and...
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Published in: 50.50Creating peace: a manifesto for the 21st century
How does an international women’s organisation with a hundred year history put Mahatma Gandhi’s famous call to...
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Published in: 50.50Violence is not inevitable: It is a choice
In 1915 a thousand women met in the Hague to demand an end to war. A thousand women are doing so again this week. It...
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Published in: 50.50Why we need a feminist foreign policy to stop war
Feminist foreign policy is au courant, but what does it mean in practice? Foreign policy informed by feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Hidden women human rights defenders in the UKWithout recognising the work of women who seek to protect human rights domestically, the UK government risks seeing...
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Published in: 50.50Violence compared: rape in Turkey and India
There are striking similarities in the responses to rape and murder cases of women in India and Turkey: a...
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Published in: 50.50The personal is political: the journey of a feminist slogan
All successful slogans are subject to misappropriation: it is a sign of their success. The personal is political –...
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Published in: 50.50Men in charge? Rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition
The new book Men in Charge? shows that the assumption that God gave men authority over women is a theological...
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Published in: 50.50Sharia law, apostasy and secularism
Opposing religious fundamentalism is a dangerous political activity. It is not a distraction from ‘real’ politics -...
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Published in: 50.50When scarred female bodies demarcate the Indian subcontinent's polityThe Lightning Testimonies, an acclaimed feminist exhibition, comes to Assam, and its powerful images speak to the...
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Published in: 50.50Labour, life and love: Marxist feminists join the dotsLast weekend two generations of international feminists met at a conference in Berlin designed to prompt fresh...
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Published in: 50.50Building "a new Turkey": gender politics and the future of democracyCan Turkey's government eschew gender equality, demonise the country's dynamic women's movement, and still prevent...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia's fight against fundamentalism: an interview with Amel Grami
In conversations with Karima Bennoune, Tunisian intellectual Amel Grami shares her analysis of the political crisis...
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Published in: 50.50Disposable GirlsThe fight to protect the world's girls, whether from sexual exploitation or abduction, is not about saving...
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Published in: 50.50The madame's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sectorThe Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
