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Published in: 50.50Australia: the Prime Minister who redefined misogyny
The Australian Prime Minister's recent speech about “repulsive double standards on misogyny and sexism” in the House...
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Published in: 50.50Speak clearly and drive a big motorbike - on the road to equality in Danish politics
Politics will always be a man’s world if you listen to the men, says Danish MP Liselott Blixt. She told her own...
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Published in: 50.50La faim et le patriarcat au Cameroun
Les femmes de la région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun sont confrontées à une combinaison difficile de violence et de...
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Published in: 50.50Where have all the jobs gone?
Jobs are disappearing in the UK, wages are dropping, and there is a shocking absence of political debate about the...
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Published in: 50.50Hunger and patriarchy in Cameroon
Women in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon face a brutal nexus of violence and hunger. As long as women remain...
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Published in: 50.50When austerity sounds like backlash: gender and the economic crisis
The discourse of 'urgency' surrounding the public sector cuts masks their widespread reinvention of a Conservative...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the UK: back to the future
Britain’s Olympic summer is over and now it’s back to reality. Marion Bowman looks at how a ground-breaking play on...
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Published in: 50.50Somalia: a call for sisterhood
In the run up to next week's Presidential election in Somalia, Zainab M. Hassan writes an open letter to new women...
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Published in: 50.50How women are paying for the recession in the UK
It was predictable and in fact predicted. The British Government’s austerity programme has turned back the clock on...
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Published in: 50.50Agency within Ethiopian sex work: withstanding violence
Beyond the simplistic dichotomies within western feminism on the nature of sex work there is a complex picture in...
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Published in: 50.50The gender-equality Olympics: medals and penalties so far
The 2012 London Olympics have been heralded as the best Olympics yet for women, although gender-inequalities remain,...
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Published in: 50.50Who said “We could have it all?”
What Anne-Marie Slaughter and so many other privileged women have failed to understand is that the original women’s...
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Published in: 50.50The women who make a drama out of rough justice
A London-based theatre company founded by two women prisoners will take a play about trafficked girls to the UK’s...
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Published in: 50.50Making visible the invisible: commodification is not the answer
If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic...
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Published in: 50.50"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming care as a fundamental end in itself
In the global context of economic insecurity and emerging 'care crises', there is a real risk that the development...
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Published in: 50.50Sénégal: la terre à ceux qui la travaillent
Plus d’un quart de siècle de conflit armé, un tissu socio-économique complètement déstructuré, mais les femmes de...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job