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Published in: 50.50UK women: the loss of an independent collective voiceAs the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women opens in New York today, women's organisations from the UK find...
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Published in: 50.50Zero tolerance or zero consequence?
Laudable yet formalistic plans, committees and laws have been put in place to address violence against women, yet...
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Published in: 50.50Guns: the unending cycle of violence
The words of the women paralleled each other as they described how armed violence in the home and community, armed...
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Published in: 50.50Putting money where our mouths areLyric Thompson, in her last report from New York, writes that as we close the 54th UN Commission on the Status of...
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Published in: 50.50Haven't we said so already?If the actions recommended by the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on Equality, Development and Peace were honoured,...
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Published in: HomeKeeping hope alive in New YorkWill the government representatives at the CSW remember their commitments when they are back in their home...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s empowerment in Central Asia and movement buildingFor the first time at CSW, women from Central Asia shared their stories. I realized that this in itself is the...
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Published in: 50.50Iran: time to change the questionParvin Ardalan spoke to Jane Gabriel at the UN CSW about the link between a conversation with her father and her...
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Published in: 50.50New York: no place for women in actionIn an open letter to the United Nations Secretary General, the European Women's Lobby declares that "The 54th...
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Published in: 50.50How about equality of respect?Last week the UN CSW54 was accused by the European Women's Lobby of being a 'step backwards' for women. As it grinds...
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Published in: 50.50An uncomfortable truth: the gender turf war at UN CSWLyric Thompson takes issue with those who argue that men are inherently unqualified to speak as advocates for...
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Published in: 50.50Courage, controversy and chaos at the UN Commission on the Status of WomenMore than two thousand women's rights activists are in New York for the UN Commission on the Status of Women to...
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Published in: 50.50The table around which we didn't sitCSW has attracted 1000s of women to its proceedings this year, but there is a danger that we are just talking to...
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Published in: 50.50The price of peace“Peace processes are bad men talking to bad government and other bad men.....women in civil society are doing...
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Published in: 50.50Women: reflections on our human rightsIt's seventeen years since women's rights were recognised as human rights at the World Conference on Human Rights...
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Published in: 50.50This is my witnessThe human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma.
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Published in: 50.50Haiti's 'restaveks'Less than a month after Haiti was brought to its knees by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, another story emerged from...
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Published in: 50.50Burma may save its tigers and not its women
Cora Weiss reports on the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma - an overwhelming day of stories...
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Published in: 50.50Defining the new American gender agendaThere has been much debate both within Washington and without as to what the new American gender agenda will be....
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Published in: 50.50Overdue justiceThe next Progress of the World's Women, UNIFEM's flagship biennial report, will be on Access to Justice. I went...
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