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Published in: 50.50Italy’s new government is bad news for women and minoritiesThere will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 3: why we need feminist investigative journalismAt the 2018 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, 50.50 organised a panel on feminist investigative...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist journalists must document structural violence against women – with investigations from belowAny feminist anti-racist reporting project must work to dismantle received ideas of how and whose stories should be...
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Published in: 50.50Six ways Ireland’s abortion referendum could be hacked this weekAnti-abortion money, Facebook ads and boots-on-the-ground volunteers have piled in from across the world to try and...
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Published in: 50.50Girls at Dhabas: challenging issues of safety, or ‘respectability’ in urban Pakistan?“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist bots vs right-wing trolls: Brazil’s gender justice movements cross new frontiersAbortion has long been criminalised in Brazil. It is an issue that many have all but given up on – except for...
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Published in: 50.50#IBelieveHer protesters face backlash after Belfast rape acquittalsA gruelling rape trial ended in the acquittal of rugby players, prompting online outrage, offline protests – and a...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 2: "you can't eat a condom"Anti-choice activists at the United Nations argue that rural women need food, not reproductive choice. But unsafe...
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Published in: 50.50How the UN women’s talks failed to call out corporate power – letting down our human rights defendersLast month’s Commission on the Status of Women talks failed to tackle corporate impunity, despite increasingly...
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Published in: 50.50‘She could have been our Martin Luther King Jr’ – tribute to Marielle FrancoThe city councilwoman advocated for the rights of the most oppressed Brazilians. This is why people around the world...
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Published in: 50.50#MeToo in Japan: 'I was told not to bring shame on the country, with my story’Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations...
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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: 50.50How an indigenous woman left her mark on a tumultuous presidential campaign in MexicoMarichuy didn’t gather the necessary number of signatures to run for president, but that hasn’t stopped a movement’s...
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Published in: 50.50Video: feminist activists speak out against corporate impunityHuman rights abuses. Plundered resources. #Feminists4BindingTreaty explain why corporations must be held accountable...
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Published in: 50.50Will reactionary delegations torpedo UN talks on rural women?At the Commission on the Status of Women, commitments to rural women’s empowerment are under threat. Can new,...
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Published in: 50.50‘We won’t give up’: 25 years of feminist resistance to the war on women’s bodies in PolandIn 1993, the Polish government took away our right to abortion – starting a war on women’s bodies which continues to...
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Published in: 50.50A tribute to the fearless Laura Lee: freedom fighter for sex workers’ rights, and my friendLaura Lee died on 7 February 2018. She was a leading activist who campaigned fearlessly for the decriminalisation of...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 1: women and the far rightWe talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...
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Published in: 50.50Divisive populists are a “main obstacle” to women’s rights“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy...
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Published in: 50.50Has Trump’s White House ‘resurrected’ Army of God anti-abortion extremists?Christian extremism as a motivator for violence is often overlooked, while clinics providing abortion services are...
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