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Published in: 50.50Activist Reham Al-Bader’s death in Yemen shows the dangers women face providing lifelines in conflictWomen in Yemen are challenging the death and destruction around them, often paying a heavy price. Yet, their voices...
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Published in: 50.50Evangelicals in South Africa are 'broadcasting hate masked as morality'Christian right groups are adding to an already dangerous environment for women and LGBTQI individuals, by pushing...
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Published in: 50.50Divisive populists are a “main obstacle” to women’s rights“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico City is an island in a sea of anti-abortion states – and the right to choose is threatened here tooAnti-choice activists are increasingly active in Mexico’s capital city, strategically targeting and “inciting fear”...
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Published in: 50.50The problem with populist gender equality-by-numbersIt’s important to have more women in public and political debates. But having a seat at the table isn’t the same...
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Published in: 50.50Why we’re Right: young women on the UK’s growing right-wing scene in their own wordsRejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain...
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Published in: 50.50Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedentA potentially precedent-setting petition at the International Criminal Court could help human rights advocates and...
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Published in: 50.50Golden Dawn Girls documentary gives new voice to women in Greece's far-right eliteWhy would women connected to leaders of the extreme nationalist party invite documentary cameras into their homes,...
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Published in: 50.50Why are women joining far-right movements, and why are we so surprised?Women’s ‘shocking’ participation in far-right politics has received much media attention. But is this a new trend,...
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: 50.50How the Italian media have helped CasaPound ‘glamourise’ fascismSome reporters have dangerously framed this violent movement and its female leaders as ‘beautiful,’ ‘clean-faced,’...
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Published in: 50.50We need to talk about how we learn to accept our own oppressionThe more women stand up against bullies and harassment in our personal lives, the less we will tolerate them in our...
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Published in: 50.50How women are building feminist human security in the AmericasAcross the region, women are forging alternative paths to real peace and security, rejecting militarisation and...
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Published in: 50.50We’re African women and we’re feministsFeminism is not ‘un-African.’ This is a multi-generational, multi-layered movement of women across the continent,...
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Published in: 50.50The UN secretary general isn’t yet what feminists were looking forAntónio Guterres showed real leadership on gender equality in 2017, but his first year in office fell short of our...
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Published in: 50.50The story of a feminist victory against fundamentalists and gender segregation in UK schoolsIn 2017 the Court of Appeal ruled that gender segregation in schools is indeed discriminatory. This landmark...
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Published in: 50.50How women migrant workers defy ‘social control’ with everyday resistanceWomen migrant workers face extreme forms of social control in Saudi Arabia. One Sri Lankan woman shares her story of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe battle between Syrian secular activists and feminists: we all loseYet 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: 50.50Investigative journalist Jeta Xharra: challenging politicians and patriarchy in the BalkansReporter Jeta Xharra talks about misogyny in journalism, and how she uses her live TV show to challenge politicians...
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Published in: 50.50"The first prejudice to fight was mine": Italy's only publicly trans police officerItaly is one of Europe's most transphobic countries, and its laws – and rates of violence – reflect that.
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