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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: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformation
As Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50Vital peace constituencies
The last decade has seen much more detailed attention to the many, sometimes contradictory, roles women play in...
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Published in: 50.50The human cost of war
Diana Francis finds in an exhibition of quilts and arpilleras made by women from Ireland to Chile, a rallying call...
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Published in: 50.50An unfortunate accident: violence in Ahmadinejad’s Iran
In the wake of the contested Iranian election, Ahmadinejad's regime is seeking to silence political dissent through...
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Published in: 50.50Meeri Piribis: carrying the torch of hope
“No more will we let the army decide, the insurgents decide, or the patriarchal structures of our societies that...
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Published in: 50.50When the global is local: UN Security Council Resolutions on sexual violence are for all of us
Joining the Reclaim the Night march in London last weekend, Vanessa Alexander asks how can we advocate for the...
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Published in: 50.50Violence targets the weakest
We have found that the primary cause of all the violence and submission which women undergo is discrimination, and...
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Published in: 50.50Laureate Mairead Maguire: building 'deep democracy'
Laureate Mairead Maguire spoke to Jane Gabriel about a new politic she sees arising: one in which ‘deep democracy’...
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Published in: 50.50Peacework: lessons we have failed to learn
Isabel Hilton reports from Galway on the first international conference of the 2007 Nobel Women's Initiative: Women...