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Published in: 50.50When things fall apart
Alice Welbourn charts her own personal experiences of what she learnt about HIV, about herself and about others...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: both the cause and the consequence of violence against women
In the UK the number of women living with HIV has been steadily growing since the beginning of the epidemic. Newly...
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Published in: 50.50The challenges for women of HIV and gender violence
The hinterland of acknowledging and dealing with the links between gender violence and HIV/AIDS is mostly unexplored...
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Published in: 50.50Nameless, Genderless: The Meena Bazaar Women
What prevents politicians from discussing national security issues and violence against women in the same sentence?...
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Published in: 50.50There is no honour in ‘honour killing’
Islam is more tolerant of male-female relationships than some would have us believe. The issue of ‘honour killing’...
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Published in: 50.50“We have failed. We have nothing to celebrate”
There is a growing wave of unrest among young women at the failure of governments to recognise and implement...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict Transformed? The start of a debate
In the first article of her series, Diana Francis reviews the aspirations and achievements of conflict transformers...
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Published in: 50.50When the global is local: UN Security Council Resolutions on sexual violence are for all of us
Joining the Reclaim the Night march in London last weekend, Vanessa Alexander asks how can we advocate for the...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women in the UK: a map of gaps
The shift of funding from central to local authorities has led to the loss of essential services and...
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Published in: 50.50Why do Americans love Sarah Palin?
Why does America take Palin seriously? The answer lies in gender politics, and in the history of right-wing...
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Published in: 50.50Fotokids – Out of the Dump
How an organisation that attempts to bring young people in Guatemala out of poverty by providing training in the...
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Published in: 50.50Ugandan gays and Muslim women:a common struggle to redefine family
What have gay rights activists in Christian-majority Uganda and Muslim women fighting for family law reform in Asia...
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Published in: 50.50Gender in Afghanistan: pragmatic activism
War and mismanagement have produced a breakdown of trust, decency and reciprocity in Afghan society. Gender activism...
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Published in: 50.50Could the Conservatives detoxify immigration politics?
Ayesha Saran reflects on her experience at the recent party conferences
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Published in: 50.50A Powerful Women's Agency: will the UN deliver?
As the UN moves to create a strong women's agency led by an Under Secretary General, Charlotte Bunch argues that...
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Published in: 50.50Changing lives in the West Bank villages
The increasing economic poverty in villages outside Ramallah in the West Bank is leading to unexpected changes in...
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Published in: 50.50We are visible
Katana Gégé Bukuru spoke to Isabel Hilton at the Nobel Women's Initiative gathering in Antigua about her work for...
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Published in: 50.50Violence targets the weakest
We have found that the primary cause of all the violence and submission which women undergo is discrimination, and...
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Published in: 50.50Laureate Mairead Maguire: building 'deep democracy'
Laureate Mairead Maguire spoke to Jane Gabriel about a new politic she sees arising: one in which ‘deep democracy’...
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Published in: 50.50To know that we are not alone
Every woman at the NWI gathering in Antigua had a way of redefining democracy - from writing the new Ecuadorian...