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Published in: 50.50: FeatureAnti-rights groups tried to take over a UN summit. Feminists fought backWomen from the Global South battled for gender equality and climate justice at the UN’s annual Commission on the...
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Published in: Home: NewsTories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviserBoris Johnson’s U-turn over protecting trans people in the conversion therapy ban is an attempt to appeal to Tory...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureCosta Rica’s new president threatens women’s and LGBTIQ rightsRodrigo Chaves, accused of sexual harassment at the World Bank, has promised to ban gender education and uphold the...
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerExplainer: What is ‘conversion therapy’?The UK government has reportedly stepped back from including protections for trans people in its banning of...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHow Brexit axed abortion access for Europe’s most marginalisedPost-Brexit immigration rules mean the UK has abandoned European citizens in dire need of basic healthcare
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionTexas parents with trans kids speak out on shocking ‘child abuse’ policyA new law in one US state means families with trans children can be investigated for ‘child abuse’. Now parents are...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionHungary’s first female president is hardly a win for womenKatalin Novák denies being Viktor Orbán’s ‘puppet’, but she is likely to continue the Hungarian government’s...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy Ghana’s LGBTIQ community needs your helpGhana’s proposed new anti-gay law has led to attacks on the country’s LGBTQI community. This needs to stop
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe media disinformation campaign against Ghana’s queer communityGhanaian journalists are driving an anti-LGBTIQ campaign that could result in one of the world’s harshest homophobic laws
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureInside the fight against criminalisation of abortion in El SalvadorMy new film documents how more than 50 Salvadoran women serving lengthy prison terms have been set free by feminist activism
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Published in: 50.50: NewsWomen battle Guatemala’s new anti-abortion and anti-LGBT law‘Nefarious’ bill would legalise homophobia and increase prison terms for those who have abortions
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionA message from a Russian LGBT+ activistWe can’t stop this war, started by our own government, but we can express our solidarity and support for Ukraine and...
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Don’t say gay’: anti-equality legislation spreading state by state in the USFlorida’s anti-LGBTQ bill and Texas’s ban on abortion after six weeks shows that political battles at state level...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAn African view of what’s happening in EuropeAfricans support the Ukrainian people, but centuries of experience also make us wary of ‘solutions’ by our former colonisers
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionRussia and the US have more in common than you might thinkMy experience of living and teaching in Moscow, and studying Russian history, reveals how many imperialist,...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationUS-linked anti-abortion centre targeting women with misinformation in Côte d’IvoireAbortion would be ‘murder’, even in cases of rape, a counsellor says to openDemocracy’s undercover reporterFrench
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationDes femmes en Côte d’Ivoire ciblées par de la désinformation émanant d’un centre anti-avortement lié aux Etats-Unis
L'avortement serait un « meurtre », même en cas de viol. C’est ce qu’a indiqué une conseillère à un reporter...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionVirginity doesn’t exist, so why is it ‘tested’ and ‘repaired’?It’s time to end the myth of female virginity – as well as virginity testing and hymen repair surgery, which...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureCoercive control: why is it still missing from the social work curriculum?Domestic abuse doesn’t have to be physical, but until social workers are taught properly about psychological abuse,...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureViolence against women garment workers increased during pandemicWomen workers experienced more verbal, physical and sexual violence under COVID-19, reveals report into garment...
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