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Published in: 50.50Lessons from farmers and indigenous women: cultivate democracy
Learning to live in harmony with the land is co-constituent to human rights activism. Jennifer Allsopp reports for...
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Published in: 50.50How to fight gun violence in Trump’s America
We must double down on grassroots, community activism. Even with Trump in office, women can and must organize to end...
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Published in: 50.50"Visionary and creative resistance": meet the women challenging extractivism – and patriarchy
Environmental degradation is deliberate, violent and patriarchal. From Turkey to Guatemala, women are on the...
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Published in: 50.50Monsters, jealousy and “sick love” — how the Italian media covers violence against women
Statistics give partial pictures of gender-based violence in Italy – but the language used to cover such violence...
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Published in: 50.50How Rojava-inspired women's councils have spread across Europe
Could this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rights
The international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and...
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Published in: 50.50Why the old Holloway Prison in north London should become a new women's building
This former site of state violence against women must be reclaimed – for the collective good.
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Published in: 50.50Gender-just laws versus “divine” law in Sri Lanka
The heated debate over reforming Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka has resulted in an unprecedented mobilization of...
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Published in: 50.50No Women’s Day without refugee women
Hand-in-hand with Trump, Theresa May is not merely playing to an anti-migrant populist crowd but helped to create...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from Syria on women's empowerment during conflict
Syrian women will be the pillars of any future democratic process. Their efforts deserve support from national and...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist pacifism or passive-ism?
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In the face of increasing femicide, sexual violence and rape culture, we need...
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Published in: 50.50Berta Vive! Lessons from Honduras on resistance
A year on from the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Caceres, five Honduras leaders give key lessons on...
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Published in: 50.50Should domestic abuse have its own law?
In the UK, there is no specific offence for 'domestic violence'. Is the law failing women seeking justice?
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Published in: 50.50Internally displaced women: social rupture and political voice
Displacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...
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Published in: 50.50India's female genital mutilation: a thousand-year-old secret
So little was known, until recently, about the secretive practice of FGM in a small Muslim community that India is...
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Published in: 50.50Escaping domestic violence: ‘according to the law, you are not here’
Many women survivors of violence in Europe cannot access support services because of their migration status. The...
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Published in: 50.50Investigating Sri Lanka’s ‘nude’ culture
Learning from schoolgirls and boys about blackmail, ‘nudes’ and cyber exploitation in Sri Lanka.
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Published in: 50.50The Indian judiciary are paper tigers
In the final of a three-part series dealing with the law on domestic violence in India, we focus on the failures of...
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Published in: 50.50A jail, not a shelter: women’s refuges in India
On the tenth anniversary of a major law dealing with domestic violence in India, we explore how the poor quality of...
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Published in: 50.50Is the Indian law on domestic violence fit for purpose?
In the first of this three part series, we examine the effectiveness of one of the major planks of the domestic...