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Published in: 50.50Where are the investigative journalists challenging patriarchy?
Amid growing threats to our sexual and reproductive rights, and enduring inequality, discrimination and gender-based...
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Published in: 50.50Rome’s occupied domestic violence shelter under threat
Lucha y Siesta is a unique occupation in Italy’s capital: it is one of Rome’s few domestic violence shelters. Now,...
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Published in: 50.50How Italian women are organising against ‘obstetric violence’
This gender-based violence, perpetrated by health workers, is widespread In Italy. A recent survey said it impacts...
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Published in: 50.50Five inspirational feminists you should know and honour today
Documenting the lives of departed feminists, and sharing their stories, honours their memories and inspires future...
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Published in: 50.50Remembering murdered activists is important – but not enough
My organisation publishes annual, online tributes to activists who have passed away. What we really need is for...
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Published in: 50.50How India's Café Sheroes fights back against acid attacks
Run by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and...
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Published in: 50.50‘Shame has to switch sides’ – Feminist activist Inna Shevchenko on #MeToo
The Femen 'partisan' talks about #MeToo protests and why a recent Roman Polanski celebration in France was “an...
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Published in: 50.50Living without men: women-only organising is as old as time
As long as patriarchal societies dominate, we shouldn’t be surprised to see women turning to single-sex spaces for...
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Published in: 50.50Young women mobilise against ‘revenge porn’ and online abuse
Survivors of cyber attacks and young feminist digital rights activists tell of the damage done by this violence –...
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Published in: 50.50Can a feminist tech collective help end the silence around LGBTQ+ domestic abuse?
The Supernova Project is a new online platform that aims to provide crucial information and support to those in...
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Published in: 50.50Harvey Weinstein: Italian media coverage of the scandal has been predictably outrageous
The Italian media has failed, once again, to focus on systems of power and abuse. Actress Asia Argento has been...
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Published in: 50.50Look that monster dead in the face: tackling domestic violence in lesbian relationships
Art can create safe spaces for queer women to address often-ignored domestic violence. This is important to end the...
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Published in: 50.50‘Swept under the carpet’: violence against Zimbabwe's women journalists
Women journalists in Zimbabwe have been beaten and harassed by state security. The male-dominated media largely...
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Published in: 50.50We need personal, everyday action to end violence against women
Never laugh at a rape joke, speak out against lower wages for women. Don’t underestimate the power of everyday...
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Published in: 50.50How to spend €500 million: women’s rights groups on Europe’s UN grant
We welcome this week’s historic funding announcement for work to end violence against women and girls. But there are...
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Published in: 50.50The long road to gender equality in southeast Asia
Singapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women and extremism are intrinsically linked: overlooking this puts rights at risk
Religious groups we work with, in the fight against extremism, must have a commitment to universal rights – as well as peace.
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Published in: 50.50Inciting soldiers to rape in the Philippines
Duterte offered immunity to soldiers that commit rape in the current anti-terror campaign in Mindanao. It could make...
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Published in: 50.50Fighting violence against women: what happens when an organisation fails to follow its values
This is the anonymised true story of the premature death of one women's organisation. Its experience is not unique,...
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Published in: 50.50“Men have no idea what we go through”: ending violence against women in the Pacific Islands
Leaders of Pacific Island countries have introduced new initiatives to tackle violence against women – but they're...