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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 1: women and the far rightWe talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...
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Published in: 50.50Evangelicals in South Africa are 'broadcasting hate masked as morality'Christian right groups are adding to an already dangerous environment for women and LGBTQI individuals, by pushing...
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Published in: 50.50Divisive populists are a “main obstacle” to women’s rights“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico City is an island in a sea of anti-abortion states – and the right to choose is threatened here tooAnti-choice activists are increasingly active in Mexico’s capital city, strategically targeting and “inciting fear”...
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Published in: 50.50Has Trump’s White House ‘resurrected’ Army of God anti-abortion extremists?Christian extremism as a motivator for violence is often overlooked, while clinics providing abortion services are...
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Published in: 50.50Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedentA potentially precedent-setting petition at the International Criminal Court could help human rights advocates and...
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Published in: 50.50Why are women joining far-right movements, and why are we so surprised?Women’s ‘shocking’ participation in far-right politics has received much media attention. But is this a new trend,...
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Published in: 50.50Where are the investigative journalists challenging patriarchy?Amid growing threats to our sexual and reproductive rights, and enduring inequality, discrimination and gender-based...
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Published in: 50.50Apply for a 50.50 feminist investigative journalism fellowshipWe need your help to track the backlash against sexual and reproductive rights. Apply for 50.50's inaugural feminist...
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Published in: 50.50The story of a feminist victory against fundamentalists and gender segregation in UK schoolsIn 2017 the Court of Appeal ruled that gender segregation in schools is indeed discriminatory. This landmark...
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Published in: 50.50Northern Ireland needs alternative visions of progressive, LGBTQ-inclusive peaceMany schools, workplaces, churches, and streets remain arenas of homophobic and transphobic discrimination and...
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Published in: 50.50How UK anti-abortion activists use American tactics to shock and shame women50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act, the anti-abortion movement is consolidating – with transatlantic support.
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Published in: 50.50“Our strategy is visibility”: the fight for LGBT rights in RomaniaViolence and anti-LGBT hate crime is on the rise in Romania, says activist Vlad Viski. But he and his colleagues...
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Published in: 50.50How Romania became a battleground in the transatlantic backlash against LGBT rightsRomania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001. Today it is witnessing a backlash against LGBT rights, supported by US...
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Published in: 50.50Christian ‘legal army’ in hundreds of court battles worldwideWomen’s rights advocates say controversial US legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom is ‘exporting extreme...
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Published in: 50.50Northern Ireland police must stop intimidating equality activistsThe force can't claim to be progressive whilst cracking down on those protesting hateful conservatism and...
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Published in: 50.50I'm a trans teenager in Northern Ireland, where bigotry is taught at schoolWhile LGBTQ+ rights groups are deemed “inappropriate” for educational environments, abusive and anti-choice...
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Published in: 50.50Tracking the backlash: why we're investigating the 'anti-rights' oppositionGrowing and globalising networks of conservative and fundamentalist groups are pushing back against our sexual and...
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Published in: 50.50How anti-abortion extremists are exploiting #BlackLivesMatter to vilify African-American womenFighting anti-choice campaigns requires more than a gendered approach – reproductive justice demands direct...
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Published in: 50.50On the warpath: the young women leading Ireland’s campaign against abortionNext year Ireland will hold a referendum on its controversial eighth amendment. Articulate, millennial “pro-life...
