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Published in: 50.50‘Young men should be furious’: Inside the world’s largest gathering of men’s rights activists50.50 spent a (fairly) fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at London’s International Conference on Men’s Issues
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Published in: 50.50How ‘conscientious objectors’ threaten women’s newly won abortion rights in Latin AmericaFrom Uruguay to Chile, medical staff are refusing to provide abortion services even after legalisation Español
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Published in: 50.50How El Salvador’s evangelicals have joined the backlash against women’s reproductive rightsThe changing religious landscape in this historically Catholic country has not been good news for women, who live...
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Published in: 50.50How did Northern Ireland lawmakers carve out an anti-abortion ‘ghetto’ within the UK?Northern Ireland remains a blind spot for equality for women and members of the LGBTIQ community. Will Ireland’s...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 3: Why we need feminist investigative journalismAt the 2018 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, 50.50 organised a panel on feminist investigative...
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Published in: 50.50MPs criticise Facebook’s ‘not fit for purpose’ foreign ad ban as Ireland votes on abortionBritish and Irish parliamentarians call for major changes to unregulated social media campaigning following...
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Published in: 50.50Six ways Ireland’s abortion referendum could be hacked this weekAnti-abortion money, Facebook ads and boots-on-the-ground volunteers have piled in from across the world to try and...
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Published in: 50.50‘Nice Irish girls don’t have sex’ is the old idea at the heart of historic abortion rights battleEven if abortion is legalised in Ireland, this mindset must be challenged if women are to fully access their...
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Published in: 50.50Who benefits from sensationalised media coverage of abortion? Hint: not women, whose lives are at stakeMedia outlets too often cover abortion-related news in inaccurate and derogatory ways. Activists and progressive...
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Published in: 50.50The Right’s ‘gender ideology’ menace rolls to AfricaSpanish group CitizenGo brings anti-trans ‘Free Speech Bus’ to Kenya, where the World Congress of Families is...
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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 Irish anti-abortion activists are drawing on Brexit and Trump campaigns to influence referendumBacklash against Irish abortion rights enlists some of the same technologies, companies, and individuals involved in...
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Published in: 50.50Young, trans Nigerians: ‘people need to see that we exist’It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
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Published in: 50.50Foreign and ‘alt-Right’ activists target Irish voters on Facebook ahead of abortion referendumNew data shows how social media has become a battleground in a transatlantic backlash against abortion rights for Irish women
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Published in: 50.50Feminist bots vs right-wing trolls: Brazil’s gender justice movements cross new frontiersAbortion has long been criminalised in Brazil. It is an issue that many have all but given up on – except for...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 2: "you can't eat a condom"Anti-choice activists at the United Nations argue that rural women need food, not reproductive choice. But unsafe...
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Published in: 50.50Teen Mom Tanzania: denied sex education, then criminalised for pregnancyPregnant teenagers face expulsion from school, arrests, even death. The backlash against sex education in Africa is...
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Published in: 50.50Will reactionary delegations torpedo UN talks on rural women?At the Commission on the Status of Women, commitments to rural women’s empowerment are under threat. Can new,...
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Published in: 50.50‘We won’t give up’: 25 years of feminist resistance to the war on women’s bodies in PolandIn 1993, the Polish government took away our right to abortion – starting a war on women’s bodies which continues to...
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Published in: 50.50Same-sex marriage has become a political football in Italy's electionsThe so-called centre-right coalition is talking tough against Italy’s LGBTQI and immigrant communities, attacking...
