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Published in: 50.50Challenging the architecture of human relations
"The essential problem in relation to our predicament as women, but also with our world, is the architecture of...
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Published in: 50.50Shirin Ebadi: who defines Islam?
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in Turkey: between incitement, complicity and silence
The debates triggered by a 14-fold increase in violent crimes against women in Turkey in the last seven years have...
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Published in: 50.50From Tahrir square to my kitchen
Despite the vibrancy of mobilization in Egypt after Mubarak, Hania Sholkamy’s account of the 8th of March...
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Published in: 50.50"The rising of the women means the rising of us all"
In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement had a badge that proclaimed: women who seek equality with men lack...
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Published in: 50.50Promise and peril: women and the ‘Arab spring’
Women were visible and effective in the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Will this moment of opening yield...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism and the soul of secularism
Secularism, as a concept, appears to be in danger from both the left and the right. Among feminists, it tends to be...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the two faces of liberation
"The goddess Sekhmet has risen once and will rise again so Hathour can flourish in peace and justice" - Zainab Magdy...
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Published in: 50.50Rocking the cradle - and the boat
Global funding for HIV/Aids now goes to large international organisations. They need the grassroots organisations to...
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Published in: 50.50Sri Lanka: where are the women in local government?
The women party activists who applied for nominations to stand in next week's local elections in Sri Lanka found...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: from equality of purpose to equality on the ground
"We acted together and we all adhere to the same values: justice, compassion, and unity, and these values are...
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Published in: 50.50The rightful place of gender equality within Islam
An animated discussion is taking place about the relationship between Islam and equality and justice in the context...
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Published in: HomeStatement from the Coalition of Women's NGO's in Egypt
Women's NGOs in Egypt denounce the decision of the National Council of Women to represent their views at...
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Published in: 50.50Pakistan: the Taliban's successful marriage of dogma and custom
That the guardians of women's virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: the transition to democracy needs women
Boots-on-the-ground often plays itself out in the transitional period after deadly conflict: predominantly male...
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Published in: HomeHow the left is losing the war on trafficking
Based on her fieldwork research on Filipinas in the sex industries in Japan, the author examines the traps and...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim women
The arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: 50.50Women's citizenship:implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the result of last month's Southern Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist politics: creating alliances for justice and democracy
If the goals of economic and gender justice cannot be pursued in tandem, and if solid transnational alliances cannot...
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Published in: 50.50Critical intersections: the politics of gender and religion
Understanding the prominence of religions and their effects on the politics of gender defies facile explanations,...