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Published in: 50.50Why the United Nations security council must let women speak freelyWomen’s civil society advocates were long excluded from the security council. This is changing, but they must be...
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Published in: 50.50‘Dear reader, put yourself in the position of a child raped and denied an abortion’I am a 14-year-old aspiring human rights activist and this is why I believe in women’s and girls' right to safe...
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Published in: 50.5028 abortion rights successes in 2018For International Safe Abortion Day, on 28 September, we are celebrating 28 aspects of progress and success we’ve...
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Published in: 50.50‘Bad girls’ in Holloway prison: when being a ‘loud’ black woman was an offence in itselfBlack women were disproportionately jailed and mistreated in London’s infamous Holloway prison. This is an edited...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s bodies have become a battleground in the fight for Iran’s futureA regressive law to boost the population has restricted the reproductive choices and rights of all Iranian women....
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Published in: 50.50The exploitation of Mayan women’s art is a story of racism, sexism – and global capitalismMayan women’s bodies, labour and knowledge have been exploited for centuries. This is an old story, with a...
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Published in: 50.50Argentina abortion vote divides the nation, from senators to doctorsThe senate votes this week on a potentially groundbreaking bill to legalise voluntary abortion. Opponents include...
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Published in: 50.50Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of historyFrom Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
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Published in: 50.50This ultra-conservative institute has infiltrated the Polish state, on a relentless quest to ban abortionOrdo Iuris is an extreme anti-choice group whose founders were ‘inspired’ by a controversial Catholic fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50Why is the US government meeting LGBT ‘hate groups’ and dangling money in front of them?Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT ‘extremists’ attended a high-level summit on religious freedom this week, where...
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Published in: 50.50How ‘conscientious objectors’ threaten women’s newly won abortion rights in Latin AmericaFrom Uruguay to Chile, medical staff are refusing to provide abortion services even after legalisation Español
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Published in: 50.50Why the Women’s March sees Trump’s UK visit as ‘a glorious opportunity’Thousands plan to march in London on Friday and also raise awareness of impacts of government policies on vulnerable...
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Published in: 50.50How El Salvador’s evangelicals have joined the backlash against women’s reproductive rightsThe changing religious landscape in this historically Catholic country has not been good news for women, who live...
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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: 50.50How did Northern Ireland lawmakers carve out an anti-abortion ‘ghetto’ within the UK?Northern Ireland remains a blind spot for equality for women and members of the LGBTIQ community. Will Ireland’s...
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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: 50.50'A historic victory for women's rights': how the world responded to Ireland's abortion referendumMedia from the UK to Argentina react to the results of Friday’s vote, laying the path to legislation for safe...
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Published in: 50.50MPs criticise Facebook’s ‘not fit for purpose’ foreign ad ban as Ireland votes on abortionBritish and Irish parliamentarians call for major changes to unregulated social media campaigning following...
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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: 50.50‘Nice Irish girls don’t have sex’ is the old idea at the heart of historic abortion rights battleEven if abortion is legalised in Ireland, this mindset must be challenged if women are to fully access their...
