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Published in: 50.50Historic UN vote to negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty in 2017
On 27 October, the UN General Assembly's Disarmament and Security Committee voted for negotiations in 2017 on a...
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Published in: 50.50The fraught road to justice: Sri Lankan victims of sexual violence
As more women testify about their experience of sexual violence in Sri Lanka the path to redress does not become...
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Published in: 50.50Nobel Women’s Initiative at 10: When We Are Bold
“It is time to stand up, sisters, and do some of the most unthinkable things. We have the power to turn our...
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Published in: 50.50Gloria Steinem: toward a feminist foreign policy
Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of...
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Published in: 50.50Whose work was the inspiration for the first nuke-free country?
New Zealand was the first country in the world to pass national nuclear-free legislation. Marilyn Waring reflects on...
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Published in: 50.50A revolution is not a dinner party
Does the word “revolution” mean the same thing to the Kurdish liberation movement and to American leftists who...
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Published in: 50.50Building a bridge to the future: towards a feminist UN
What will it take for the world’s women to shift the UN away from its paradigm of patriarchy and gender inequality...
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Published in: 50.50Justice and accountability for war related sexual violence in Sri Lanka
As the testimonies of survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka’s long war enter the public domain and the...
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Published in: 50.50Hiroshima: do the British Members of Parliament remember ?
When Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said she'd press the nuclear button during the July 18 vote on Trident,...
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Published in: 50.50Who are they, these revolutionary Rojava women?
Meredith Tax just had to find out who they were - the revolutionary women of Rojava, bearing arms against ISIS,...
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Published in: 50.50What if? Security consequences of Brexit and Trident renewal
If David Cameron survives the result of the EU referendum, he may try to rush Parliament into a vote on Trident...
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Published in: 50.50Trident or the EU: which is better for peace and security?
Mutual security and deterrence with fewer risks has been a conscious, crucial, and underestimated role of the EU. A...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: on the hoof
Rojava is a fast moving, dynamic place where things change by the minute. What are the material conditions which...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: reshaping masculinity
Rojava's battle with ISIS stronghold Raqqa is not simply a military one, but an ideological one in which the...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: It’s raining women
In less than four years, the women’s umbrella organisation, Kongira Star, has set up an autonomous, grassroots,...
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Published in: 50.50Women and the War on Drugs
Survivors and victims of the War on Drugs are travelling from Honduras in a caravan for peace, life and justice to...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava’s commitment to Jineolojî: the science of women
Travelling in Rojava is to witness the ways in which the different commitments to the revolution present a...
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Published in: 50.50Berta’s struggle is our global struggle…
Berta Cáceres’s assassination is a painful reminder of the way in which a trinity of corporate, government and...
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Published in: 50.50Millions rising to stop male violence
Annual Million Women Rise marches, started in 2007 by Sabrina Qureshi, give a platform and visibility to women...
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Published in: 50.50Guilty: what the Sepur Zarco trial means for women’s rights worldwide
Survivors of wartime sexual violence in Guatemala have secured a landmark victory in the Sepur Zarco trial: a win...