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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAbuse and deactivation: costs of celebrating women in science on Instagram?
Instagram accounts like ‘How 2 Rob a Bank’ want to teach us more about women in maths and science – yet they face...
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Published in: ourEconomyIn Zambia, a People’s Budget campaign demands a budget that works for women
Instead of more spending on defense, investment in education and agriculture will benefit the majority and not the elite.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurdish women’s experience of state violence in Turkey
An Interview with the Migration Monitoring Association (GÖÇİZDER) that illuminates the invisible aspects of the war...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe world may have moved on from ISIS, but Yezidi women haven’t
Iraq must take urgent and significant actions to provide better protection for the Yezidi women and girls and make...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLiving the double life: behind the lies of women's daily lives in Egypt
The consequences of living this sort of double-life go far beyond family disagreements.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFrom Mexico to India: the need for new paradigms to eradicate gender based violence
The rankings of the worst countries in the world to be a woman usually list Yemen, India, Pakistan, Chad, Syria and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Great Return March and the women of Gaza
Why are Palestine’s feminists fighting on two fronts?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlack Tunisian women: ceaseless erasure and post-racial illusion
Four black women from all walks of life speak up about their experiences. They can no longer be silenced.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWives of ‘muhajirin’: who’s your husband?
Upon arriving in Syria, the first step a foreign fighter takes is to find a woman to marry. Why do Syrian women...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: selective feminism and the marginalization of women’s struggles
It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe battle between Syrian secular activists and feminists: we all lose
Yet another pushback for Syrian women to leave the public spaces for the powerful men who behave as if these spaces...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLong live the struggle!
A statement by the #she_defends campaign on the international day for the elimination of violence against women: the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSaudi women between online resistance and new physical realities
What role did collective action, and social media play in Saudi Arabia’s decision to lift its ban on women driving?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAttacks on Tunisia’s transitional justice process threaten women’s advancement
Continued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPink buses and race politics
To ally campaigns for women’s rights with racism is to accept the very logic that, at its ideological core, feminism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho will defend Egypt’s human rights defenders?
NGOs play an essential role in local communities; the government’s reckless, repressive actions will jeopardize the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“Women and Children First”: war, humanitarianism, and the refugee crisis
Is a rethinking of laws of armed conflict or international humanitarian law, humanitarian assistance and refugee...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgyptian feminist movement: a brief history
The reinstatement of the 'deep state' only provides continuum for the further entrenchment of the overarching powers...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBurkinis accepted: for a poor woman scrubbing France’s floors
The woman on the beach in her human quest to be visible, had the grace, understandably, to be bewildered. A large...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe 'Burkini Battle': France’s capitulation to extremism
Reduced to symbols of national identity, women are caught in the center of a tug-of-war in which any amount of...