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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: 50.50Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim family lawsWhy and how did verse 4:34, and not other verses in the Qur’an, become the foundation for the legal construction of...
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Published in: 50.50The hijab or the bikini: the shaping of young girls’ sexuality
Where the line will be drawn between childrens' rights and parents’ rights will always be heavily contested. Issues...
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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: 50.50Visible players: the power and the risks for young feminists
From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the 'Arab spring' in the MENA region, the debate among young...
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Published in: 50.50What does transforming economic power mean?
Today's targeting of women in processes of realigning economic controls is perhaps quite unique. In order to unpack...
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Published in: 50.50Brazil: "state feminism" at work
How far can the flourishing "participatory state feminism" in Brazil expand into the state apparatus in order to...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism
It’s not an individualist but a collective feminism that we need, one that measures success not by how high a woman...
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Published in: 50.50What Iran wants from female religious authority: piety - yes, expertise in fiqh - no
More than a hundred women's seminaries have been set up by the Iranian state since the 1979 revolution. Yet the...
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Published in: 50.50Why women are at the heart of Egypt’s political trials and tribulations
The Egyptian elections delivered a parliament that has one of the lowest rates of female representation in the...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: performing in the margin, revolting in the centre"We are constantly aware of our gender and of being watched and judged because of it, so we end up "performing". But...
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Published in: 50.50The Saudi response to the ‘Arab spring’: containment and co-optionSaudi Arabia’s response to the ‘Arab spring’ has been an attempt to co-opt movements for change in a bid to maintain...
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Published in: 50.50Nigeria: women on the outskirts of politics
With only nine women senators representing 54 million women in Nigeria, international support should focus on the...
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Published in: HomeSeen and not heard: women in Sri Lanka's reconciliation commission
Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission has no mention of gender in its mandate and no dedicated...
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Published in: 50.50Mad Women on the MarchThe Fawcett Society believes that the UK coalition government has broken the law in not assessing the impact of...
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Published in: 50.50The spread of female Islamic leadership
As increasing numbers of articulate women use Islamic sources to defend varying ways of life, they are challenging...
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Published in: Shine A LightA thousand feminists, a million acts of violenceThe UK government says it wants to end abuse against women and girls but at the same time it is cutting vital...
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Published in: 50.50On the record: women in South Kordofan
The majority of voters in the South Kordofan election in May 2011 were women. In the violence that ensued, women...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the battle over hope and morale
The deliberate attempt to discredit women's rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a...
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