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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK rape survivors face ‘digital strip searches’ and other deterrents to justiceThe proportion of reported rapes that end in conviction is shockingly low – and new forms of obstacles to justice...
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Published in: 50.50Meet the journalist documenting India’s unreported rape casesPriyanka Dubey has reported on gender-based violence for years. Her new book is out in the UK and US on 8 March,...
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Published in: 50.50Alleged army rapes amidst Zimbabwe fuel hike protests go uninvestigatedWhen Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are...
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Published in: 50.50After Me Too, can we trust the UK government to tackle sexual abuse?If our lawmakers fail to confront abuse in their own workplace, how do we trust them to enact effective policies for...
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Published in: 50.50How one woman is mapping femicides in MexicoFrom her home and cafés in Mexico City, María Salguero is filling in the gaps left by official data on...
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Published in: 50.50Why the ‘Me Too’ movement in India is succeeding at lastCenturies of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a...
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Published in: 50.50‘Now, every woman knows she needs to fight violence everywhere’Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to end wartime sexual violence and why she appreciates...
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Published in: 50.50What’s next for the MeToo movement?At the Council of Europe’s annual World Forum for Democracy, we asked five activists one simple question.
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Published in: 50.50Nadia Murad may have won the Nobel peace prize, but the world failed her Yazidi peopleThe international community could and should have done more to rescue those captured by ISIS. The media also failed...
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Published in: 50.50How Pamplona is fighting sexual violence during the running of the bulls – and beyondThe San Fermín festival has become known for reports of sexual violence. But local officials say it’s a good thing...
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: the US ‘Christian fundamentalists’ behind new Netflix film on millennial sex livesA new film about youth ‘hookup culture’ follows students at ‘Spring Break’ beach parties in Florida. Does it have a...
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Published in: 50.50How women in the Balkans are using social media to fight sexismWomen are primary targets of bias and online harassment in the Balkans. Now, a growing number are using the internet...
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Published in: 50.50#IBelieveHer protesters face backlash after Belfast rape acquittalsA gruelling rape trial ended in the acquittal of rugby players, prompting online outrage, offline protests – and a...
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Published in: 50.50#MeToo in Japan: 'I was told not to bring shame on the country, with my story’Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations...
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Published in: 50.50Migrant farmworkers protest in New York City against sexual violenceProtesters march on Thursday to demand fast food giant Wendy’s sign up to scheme to tackle exploitation and improve...
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Published in: Transformation#MeToo, dialogue and healingTo give voice to our deepest experiences is to cultivate connection and collective healing.
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Published in: 50.50Has rape become a weapon to silence atheists in Bangladesh?“There is no place for me in Bangladesh," says a young woman blogger who fled the south Asian country in 2017...
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Published in: 50.50The invisible #MeToo: how anonymous testimony can help survivors of sexual abuseA college campus project showed me how anonymity can give survivors critical freedom to tell their truth, free from...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual harassment at work: Italy misses out on Weinstein-inspired moment of reckoningInstead of opening a conversation about workplace sexual harassment, the Italian debate has focused on shaming those...
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Published in: 50.50‘Shame has to switch sides’ – Feminist activist Inna Shevchenko on #MeTooThe Femen 'partisan' talks about #MeToo protests and why a recent Roman Polanski celebration in France was “an...
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