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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the battle over hope and moraleThe deliberate attempt to discredit women's rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a...
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Published in: 50.50Le Cameroun: une forme de violence sournoise en milieu scolaire
Dans la Région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, des pères privent leurs filles de leur droit à l’éducation. Aîssa...
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Published in: 50.50Cameroon: a subtle violence in education
In the extreme north region of Cameroon, fathers routinely deprive their daughters of the legal right to education....
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Feminist Fall?Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict and Custom in the New World Order : a conversation with Gita Sahgal
"There is a struggle to be had. It is time to challenge the hegemony of the formal human rights movement and its...
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Published in: 50.50'Soft law' and hard choices: a conversation with Gita SahgalA conversation exploring the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for...
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Published in: 50.50"Mighty be our powers": peaceful women and the global south
“We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context. Namely, if one fails to...
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Published in: 50.50Burkina Faso: " Restons Debout "
Les agricultrices du Burkina Faso sont en train de s’organiser pour dénoncer les politiques agricoles erronées...
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Published in: 50.50Burkina Faso: "Let us remain standing"
Women farmers in Burkina Faso are organising to denounce the misguided agricultural policies adopted by the state....
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Published in: 50.50Clearing ground: planting the seeds of Our Africa
On the launch of Our Africa, co-editor Jessica Horn reflects on the lives of two formidable Africans, Wambui Otieno...
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Published in: 50.50Women on the French left: political heavyweights? or mothers, daughters, and ‘potiches’?
The ascendancy of Martine Aubry as a main Socialist Party candidate for next year’s Presidential elections and the...
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Published in: 50.50Sudan: a lonely road for women MPs in opposition
With the secession of South Sudan on July 9th, North Sudan returns to a familiar and depressing status quo - one...
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Published in: 50.50Women, food security and peacebuilding: from gender essentialism to market fundamentalism
Is gender equality advocates' emphasis on women as agents of change helping to legitimize a neo-liberal vision of...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: will democracy be good for women's rights?
History reveals an abundance of democratic paradoxes: cases in which progress on women’s rights regressed in the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon SlutWalk: "no means no, Clarke must go"The SlutWalk protests came to London last Saturday, as part of a global show of solidarity challenging a 'rape...
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Published in: 50.50My right, my responsibility
Nairobi Women's Hospital treated more than 300 women who had been gang raped in the aftermath of the contested...
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: 50.50Shirin Ebadi: who defines Islam?
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic...
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Published in: 50.50From Tahrir square to my kitchen
Despite the vibrancy of mobilization in Egypt after Mubarak, Hania Sholkamy’s account of the 8th of March...
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Published in: 50.50"The rising of the women means the rising of us all"
In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement had a badge that proclaimed: women who seek equality with men lack...
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