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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisAre Senegal’s talibés religious scholars or child trafficking victims?In 2013 a fire claimed the lives of religious students in Senegal. A decade on, the institution that had locked them...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionSenegal failing to tackle misogyny amid growing violence against womenA Facebook group of men bonding over misogyny recently shocked the nation – but accountability is unlikely
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHomophobic petition defending PSG footballer is pulled – after 50,000 signThe petition for Idrissa Gueye, who opted out of an anti-homophobia match in France, is deemed ‘hate speech’
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion« Objets, manipulatrices ou provocatrices » : Comment les médias sénégalais dépeignent les femmesLa façon dont les affaires de viols très médiatisées sont traitées montre la nécessité de l’existence de médias...
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Objects, manipulators or temptresses’: How Senegal’s media fails womenHigh-profile rape cases highlight the need for feminist media says the founder of Warkha TV, a media platform to...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsDes femmes protestent contre « la culture du viol et l'impunité » au Sénégal« On est là pour que la culture du viol cesse, on est là pour que la justice fasse son travail », déclarent les...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsWomen protest ‘rape culture and impunity’ in Senegal
‘We are here to make the culture of rape stop, for justice to do its work’ say women after a series of high-profile...
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Published in: Home“It takes more to tango” – cross-movement alliances of youth-led movements in West AfricaIt is stunning how social movements were able to mobilize the masses to protest against democratic backslidings,...
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Published in: HomeExiled in SenegalDamien Froidevaux’s Death of the Serpent God is not about politics, and yet it is a deeply political film. At the...
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Published in: 50.50Secularism at risk in Sub-Saharan secular states: the challenges for Senegal and MaliSecularism is being challenged in several Sub-Saharan African states which have long guarded it as a principle of...
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Published in: 50.50La laïcité à l’épreuve dans les États laïques d’Afrique au Sud du Sahara : Les défis pour le Sénégal et le Mali
La laïcité est mise à l’épreuve dans plusieurs États d’Afrique subsaharienne qui l’ont gardé comme principe de...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageHuman rights in the vernacularThe road to greater ownership of human rights by emerging powers is a bumpy one. But it will lead to a more real,...
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Published in: 50.50Women of Senegal: agents of peaceThe physical and moral suffering undergone by the valiant people of Casamance is incalculable and, as usual, it is...
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Published in: 50.50Femmes de Sénégal: actrices de la paixLes souffrances physiques et morales subies par les vaillantes populations de la région naturelle de Casamance sont...
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Published in: openSecurityDakar unsettledState ambitions to build a 'global' Dakar alongside a proliferation of diaspora-financed luxury development,...
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Published in: 50.50Senegalese youth: taking a standThe recent elections in Senegal signalled the emergence of a youth consciousness in the country. Young Senegalese...
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Published in: HomeArab Spring south of the Sahara?
Why has the Arab Spring so far failed to spread south of the Sahara – and should some African leaders be looking...
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Published in: 50.50La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
