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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘My thoughts will kill me one day’: mental health crisis for Kashmiri womenThree decades of conflict in the Himalayan valley have resulted in a drastic surge in mental health issues,...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s stories from the frontline of Sudan’s revolution must be toldWomen are leading Sudan’s revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent...
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Published in: 50.50Alleged army rapes amidst Zimbabwe fuel hike protests go uninvestigatedWhen Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are...
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Published in: 50.50Thanks to social media, do teenage girls like Ahed Tamimi now have the power to influence wars?Social media has enabled girls and young women to influence contemporary conflicts in new ways, according to 'War in...
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Published in: 50.50Has rape become a weapon to silence atheists in Bangladesh?“There is no place for me in Bangladesh," says a young woman blogger who fled the south Asian country in 2017...
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Published in: 50.50After 50 years of occupation in Palestine, friendship across a separation wallWars have been fought, walls built and separation policies enacted. But we share a common belief that peace is...
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Published in: 50.50Fight fundamentalism in all its guises: a call to action from Yemen to Germany
“Be close to people’s dreams, their aspirations and their suffering...fight for a society of equal citizenship” -...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from farmers and indigenous women: cultivate democracyLearning to live in harmony with the land is co-constituent to human rights activism. Jennifer Allsopp reports for...
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Published in: 50.50What would a world without barriers to feminist solidarity look like?Citizenship is a duty that transcends borders. Jennifer Allsopp reports for 50.50 from the first day of the 2017...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rightsThe international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and...
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Published in: 50.50UN talks to ban nuclear weapons: what can they achieve?What should the nuclear ban treaty include – and what difference does it make, if nuclear-armed governments refuse...
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Published in: 50.50Why the UK was wrong to back Trump's envoy against UN nuclear disarmament talksIgnoring protests from the US, UK and some NATO countries, two-thirds of UN member states appear determined to...
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Published in: 50.50Without global solidarity the women’s movement will collapseBorders are closing across the world, blocking women from the Global South both from seeking refuge, having a voice...
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Published in: 50.50No Women’s Day without refugee womenHand-in-hand with Trump, Theresa May is not merely playing to an anti-migrant populist crowd but helped to create...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from Syria on women's empowerment during conflictSyrian women will be the pillars of any future democratic process. Their efforts deserve support from national and...
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Published in: 50.50Internally displaced women: social rupture and political voice
Displacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking justice for rape by the state in Bastar, IndiaFor tribal women living in the Bastar region of central India, sexual abuse at the hands of security forces has...
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Published in: 50.50UK National Security Strategy: security for whom?To make real progress on tackling insecurity, there needs to be far greater commitment by the British government to...
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Published in: 50.50Since I gave you a phone it’s not rapeAs evidence of UN peacekeepers’ sexual violence against Black African women and girls grows, media reporting and...
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Published in: 50.50Erdogan's war on womenKurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from...
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