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Published in: 50.50Feminist peacebuilding - a courageous intelligence
There are patriarchal reasons why women are disproportionately made to suffer in wars. It should not be surprising...
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Published in: 50.50Unpaid care: the missing women’s rights issue
Unsupported and unshared care work perpetuates women’s poverty, political marginalization and social subordination....
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Published in: 50.50What's a woman worth?: wages and democracy in Cambodia
In demanding higher wages, Cambodian women are refusing the status of the proverbial “second-class (global)...
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Published in: 50.50Neoliberal neopatriarchy: the case for gender revolution
We are living in a distinctive moment when neoliberal capitalism and neopatriarchy converge. Male dominance is no...
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Published in: 50.50The short unhappy life of the “Committee on Equality of Opportunity for Women and Men” in Turkey
Policy aiming to address Turkey's real and persistent problem of gender inequality must be formulated in...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Sierra Leone: Resisting dispossession
Women are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and...
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Published in: 50.50Working class feminism is alive and well, and it doesn’t need ‘re-branding’
The recession has caused a political resurgence amongst women in some of our poorest communities, but both their...
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, social justice, and US exceptionalism
American politicians often talk as if human rights were only relevant in other countries, but grassroots...
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Published in: openSecurityAfghanistan: beyond ethnicity
The international community has addressed Afghanistan through an ethnic prism. As anxiety grows about the future...
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Published in: 50.50Immunity and impunity in peace keeping: the protection gap
Trafficking and sexual exploitation are an integral part of armed conflict and its aftermath. Madeleine Rees argues...
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Published in: 50.50She Left Me the Gun: on story-telling and re-telling
Emma Brockes’ exploration of her mother’s life in South Africa, and what made her leave, is also a study in writing...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism: We are not calling for equal inequality
"Feminism is only frightening to those who gain the most from oppression, to those who would stifle the human spirit...
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Published in: 50.50Londra’da Feminizm: Finn Mackay’in Kapanış Konuşması
Aşağıdaki metin, Londra Feminist Ağ’ın kurucusu olan ve Londra Feminist Gece Yürüyüşünü yeniden başlatan Finn...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging patriarchy and other power relations
Feminists lift their sights to capitalism, racism and militarism. Cynthia Cockburn reports from the Feminism in...
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Published in: 50.50A feminist defence of sex workers’ rights
In the international row over decriminalizing sex work, Geetanjali Misra takes issue with the on-line petition...
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Published in: 50.50Women in journalism: not a trivial subject
The biggest newspapers in the United States, Britain and Europe still reserve pages of the most serious political...
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Published in: 50.50Restating Scottish feminism
Scottish feminists do not want ‘patriarchy in a skirt’ or a tartanised version of the status quo. It is time to...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, mental health, and intersectionality
Last month a pilot project was launched to add mental health nurses to police call-outs in parts of the UK. This...
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Published in: 50.50Leymah Gbowee: five words for the men of Libya
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee was recently invited to Tripoli to deliver a speech on the role of women in...
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Published in: 50.50"We want peace. We’re tired of war"
"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...
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