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Published in: 50.50: ReviewFilm tells forgotten stories of Ghanaian women’s fight for freedomA 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 alternativeWomen’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 movementsAmid 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 bordersIn 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 ArgentinaActivist 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 UKThe 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 alliancesFar-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 exploitationWomen 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 mediaGender 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 environmentLatin 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 historyA 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 lastCenturies 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 courtWinner 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.
