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Published in: 50.50Where we must stand: African women in an age of war
Whether one considers the direct effects of military rule and conflict on women, or the global economic implications...
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Published in: 50.50Within the hell of war lies a private hell
It is easy to think of impunity as a sin of omission. The hand not raised in protest appears genteel alongside the...
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Published in: 50.50Militarising Education
The incursion of the military into the British education system will mean that alternatives to war and peaceful ways...
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Published in: 50.50A brutal manifestation of patriarchy
The involvement of women in anti-war actions and in support of peace activism worldwide is a critical part of modern...
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Published in: 50.50Crime not shame: challenging the ideology of rape
Decades of feminist activism against rape has produced a world that now, formally, officially, and legally, at least...
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Published in: 50.50"Don’t talk to me about war. My life’s a battlefield."
When we’re looking for the links between war violence and male violence against women in peace time, we need to look...
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Published in: 50.50Women human rights defenders: activism's front-line
There is growing recognition by the international community that women human rights defenders are best placed to...
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Published in: 50.50Longing for ‘normality’: women’s experience of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina after 17 years, Cynthia Cockburn finds Bosnian women criticizing their country's...
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Published in: 50.50Code Pink, multiculturalism and relativism
The actions of Code Pink may be a natural consequence of the endorsement by many on the left and amongst feminists...
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Published in: 50.50The peace movement: debating alliances
Meredith Tax responds to Rebecca Johnson and Pam Bailey: a movement must ensure that its short term tactical aims...
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Published in: 50.50The political correctness of drone activism
Soft, anti-war interventions can end up endorsing conservative politics, if they are not strategically astute, says...
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Published in: 50.50Citizen diplomacy: a balance between leading and following
In a reply to Meredith Tax, Pam Bailey argues that 'citizen diplomacy' protesting the use of drones is essential in...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of alliances: feminist peace action, drones and Code Pink
Meredith Tax raises significant questions about feminist activism, political alliances and fundamentalism, but her...
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Published in: 50.50Code Pink, the Taliban and Malala Yousafzai
The US antiwar movement is failing to develop a politics that is critical of both US imperialism and fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50Symptoms of crisis? Religion and women’s rights in Israel
Women are being increasingly targeted as the accommodation between religious and secular Israelis crumbles,...
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Published in: 50.50Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance
For the last month, #SudanRevolt has gripped Sudan. Last Friday, the protests brought the central role of women in...
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Published in: oDRWhy are Pussy Riot girls still in prison?
Reaction inside Russia and further afield to the imprisonment of 3 members of a punk rock girl band after their...
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Published in: 50.50The gendered cost of NATO in Pakistan
Pakistan's Domestic Violence Bill has become the latest fatality in the barter between women's rights, NATO, and...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico: the war on drugs is becoming a war on women
Women human rights defenders in Mexico are increasingly targeted, often by government forces, since drug war...