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Published in: 50.50Progressive male Muslim preachers: oxymoron or reality?In their rush to find suitable allies to help control 'extremism', states as well as non-governmental organisations...
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Published in: 50.50Nuclear weapons: beyond non-proliferation?The stakes are high and the outcome too close to call as the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty opens...
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Published in: 50.50The strongest power of all
If violence is out, what power can nonviolence offer? Courage, numbers and solidarity are vital to confront...
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Published in: 50.50Cry out - eventually the world will cry out with you
"It is not what the mind knows, it is what the heart knows that changes the world". Listen to Joan Chittister give...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: the rise of the radical right
The new radical right has overcome the traditional split between left and right by combining anti-establishment...
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Published in: 50.50Is the progressive case for migration truly progressive?
More migrants entering the UK does not equal a more progressive attitude to migration. Those who make the case for a...
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Published in: 50.50Getting to peace: what kind of movement?
Today’s antiwar movements could become wider and deeper and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart
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Published in: 50.50Why do women turn religious fundamentalists on?
The more I work on projects to research religious fundamentalisms and advocate for resistance and challenge to their...
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Published in: 50.50Welcome to the International Gender Justice Dialogue
On the first day of the conference Brigid Inder, executive director of Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice...
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Published in: 50.50The religious lobby and women’s rightsNone of the main political party manifestos tackle the encroachment of religion on our society. As more and more...
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Published in: 50.50Bridging the academic-activist gapCollaboration between academics and activists is essential to the promotion of pluralism in practice.
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Published in: 50.50Prospects for gender equality and women's human rightsOur new editorial project Religion Gender Politics provides a forum for dialogue and debate about the impact on...
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Published in: 50.50Gender justice and the ICC: turning a miracle into reality
Ahead of the first global review meeting of the Rome Statue and International Criminal Court, women from around the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFeminists need to get smart over the sale of sex
As feminism begins a much needed comeback divisions over the sale of sex damage the larger cause but shouldn't, a...
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Published in: 50.50The exodus of women from the UK television industry
In the past three years 5,000 women have left the industry compared to 750 men. The quality of our television...
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Published in: 50.50India’s Women’s Reservation Bill
Can the bill for reserved seats for women as passed by India’s upper house be anything other than a cause for...
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Published in: 50.50Hitler and the challenge of non-violence
What was done to counter the ’rise and rise’ of Adolf Hitler, fascist German leader, in the 1930’s? What could have...
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Published in: 50.50Women seeking asylum: shame and isolation“I'd prefer, rather than going to a detention centre ... to be in prison for the rest of my life,” said Cecilia....
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Published in: 50.50Eat or be eaten: courting disaster
Two very different ways of viewing the world result in radically different ways of approaching conflict. When we...
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Published in: 50.50Cry of a migrant"I may able to give my children whatever they may need and ask for but the sacrifices in exchange of all these is...