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Published in: 50.50Understanding contemporary violence in Central Africa: militarism, race, and genderIt is time to challenge the conventional explanations of gender based violence. Patricia Daley argues that it can...
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Published in: 50.50Clearing ground: planting the seeds of Our Africa
On the launch of Our Africa, co-editor Jessica Horn reflects on the lives of two formidable Africans, Wambui Otieno...
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Published in: 50.50From civil war to the cult of cool
The policy of dispersing migrants in Britain has led to large numbers of Somali refugees in Smethwick, a town...
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Published in: 50.50A wound that shames our present
In proposing to remove the most basic safeguards for migrant domestic workers, Jenny Moss asks whether the UK...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon SlutWalk: "no means no, Clarke must go"The SlutWalk protests came to London last Saturday, as part of a global show of solidarity challenging a 'rape...
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Published in: 50.50Landmines data. Rape data
How many rapes are too many in war? Of course, one violent sexual attack on a woman is one too many. A single...
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Published in: 50.50If this is 'peace', when does it start for women?'The word "reconciliation" hurts me', Bakira Hasecic says. 'All I want is for those who have hurt me to be brought...
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Published in: 50.50The security sector: an awkward space for engagement
Alongside powerful arguments against militarism, we are hearing an increasingly significant voice from within the...
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Published in: 50.50Perpetuation and perpetration: the momentum of violence
So many armed men began their lives as victims of loss and grief. So many have gone on to become the source of...
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Published in: 50.50Professor Wangari Maathai speaks
Professor Maathai, noted activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, presents her message to the third international...
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Published in: 50.50Prevention is the cure“There is a reason that international institutions have been so slow to move on this agenda - it is because impunity...
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Published in: 50.50The mass crime of rape: ending impunity
A group of us gasped when one tiny mother of five, who looked no older than my 20-year old daughter, lamented, “When...
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Published in: HomeBreaking the conspiracy of silence
"I was 12 years old.....my anguish ended when my family left Okinawa after this man had paid me $5 during our last...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women demand justice
The systematic use of sexual violence along with torture, cruel and degrading treatment – such as the common use of...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence and war: inevitable?
A key reason for the seeming ubiquity of sexual violence in war is not its inevitability, but the impunity...
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Published in: 50.50My right, my responsibility
Nairobi Women's Hospital treated more than 300 women who had been gang raped in the aftermath of the contested...
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Published in: HomeThe Arms Trade Treaty: why women?
It would not be possible to rape women in front of their communities and families, on such a large scale in much of...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in Pakistan: the real verdict
The gang-rape of Mukhtaran Mai launched a nine-year court battle that concluded with a verdict by the Supreme Court...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in Turkey: between incitement, complicity and silence
The debates triggered by a 14-fold increase in violent crimes against women in Turkey in the last seven years have...
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Published in: HomeHow the left is losing the war on traffickingBased on her fieldwork research on Filipinas in the sex industries in Japan, the author examines the traps and...
