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Published in: 50.50: ReviewFilm tells forgotten stories of Ghanaian women’s fight for freedom
A new documentary, ‘When Women Speak’, weaves back into history the roles of women in Ghana’s struggle before and...
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Published in: ourEconomyMicrofinance has been a nightmare for the global south. Sri Lanka shows that there is an alternative
Women’s groups and the co-operative movement are leading the way out of the debt trap.
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Published in: 50.50On Africa’s feminist frontlines, we need accessible care practices to sustain our movements
Amid the backlash against women’s rights and feminist activists, we must learn from the radical ‘collective care’...
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Published in: 50.50This powerful one-woman play shows how "black revolutionaries don't just drop from the moon"
With poetry, music and dance, the new play Woke stages the personal, political awakenings of Assata Shakur and a...
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Published in: 50.50‘Solidarity is in the air’: Meet the bold, young women challenging Europe’s far Right across borders
In March, I travelled from London to Verona, Italy to join a historic protest for women’s and LGBTIQ rights – while...
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Published in: 50.50“I’m a sex worker and a feminist”: Fighting for sex worker rights in Argentina
Activist Elena Eva Reynaga faced decades of arrest, rape and abuse. But she won’t stop organising and educating the...
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Published in: 50.50We're yearning for anti-racist, feminist leadership in the UK
The CEO of a major UK women’s charity previously spoke at a far right party event. We’ve had enough. Our leaders...
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Published in: 50.50‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’
From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being...
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Published in: 50.50How Verona became a ‘model city’ for far-Right and ultra-Catholic alliances
Far-Right and religious conservative movements captured the ‘city of love’ years ago. After national successes,...
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Published in: 50.50Spanish women shoe workers organise to end decades of exploitation
Women workers in the country’s 'footwear capital' say they have endured too many years of job insecurity and wage theft.
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Published in: 50.50“We create space for freedom”: battling sexism in Ukraine’s media
Gender stereotypes are widespread in the Ukrainian media. I talked to activist Oleksandra Golub about campaigns to...
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Published in: 50.50Twitter threats, abuse, murder: what women face defending the environment
Latin America is the deadliest region for environmental and land defenders. But murders often follow numerous...
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Published in: 50.50Don’t forget the working-class women who made suffragette history
A century after some UK women won the vote, most of the suffragette stories we hear still focus on the elite. But...
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Published in: 50.50Evangelicals in Guatemala on verge of ‘legalising homophobia’
A ‘nefarious’ bill on ‘life and family’ is the first ever drafted by the country's evangelical churches, reflecting...
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Published in: 50.50Why the ‘Me Too’ movement in India is succeeding at last
Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a...
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Published in: 50.50‘Now, every woman knows she needs to fight violence everywhere’
Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to end wartime sexual violence and why she appreciates...
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Published in: 50.50How Kenyan women are fighting for themselves in court
Winner of the Council of Europe’s 2018 Democracy Innovation Award talks about training women to represent themselves...
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Published in: 50.50‘We’re seeing a backlash to policies against online violence’
Asha Allen from the European Women’s Lobby talks about perpetrators and forms of online violence – and what’s needed...
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Published in: 50.50What’s next for the MeToo movement?
At the Council of Europe’s annual World Forum for Democracy, we asked five activists one simple question.
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Published in: 50.50Gender equality in Europe ‘advancing at snail’s pace’
Women's rights debates take centre stage at this year's World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.