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Published in: Women's Entrepreneurial JourneysHow women are helping each other to business success in Ghana
Tourism offers opportunities to women with little capital and few skills, but they need friends and professional...
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Published in: 50.50: Investigation'No woman should be treated how I was in childbirth'
How has COVID-19 affected women's rights during childbirth? Watch this 3-minute film.
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAfrican governments warned of lawsuits for maternal deaths under COVID-19 lockdowns
Exclusive: Women have died or suffered unsafe births after transport bans, while hospitals report rising equipment shortages.
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationTop doctors and lawyers condemn ‘shocking’ treatment of women in childbirth during COVID-19
Exclusive: openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘traumatic’ incidents defying WHO guidelines in 45 countries – as...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHow has COVID-19 affected women's rights during childbirth? Help us track this globally
Since the pandemic started, we've been documenting cases of abuse and mistreatment of women in labour around the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor Tunisian protesters, democracy is not enough
If youth grievances continue to fester in the country’s marginalized regions, any captivation with a hard won...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: a state serving the military
Since the coup of 2013, there has been a process of structural change within the Egyptian state, where civilian...
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Published in: Pandemic Borders“South Africa belongs to all who live in it”, COVID-19 showed it does not
Failure to address the needs of the most vulnerable will hasten the infection rate and flame the fires of...
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Published in: Women's Entrepreneurial JourneysTo support Africa’s women entrepreneurs, investors must understand them
African women entrepreneurs can overcome the funding gap with targeted support from a new type of gender-focused investors.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWar in Mozambique: a natural gas blessing, turned curse
As the world battles COVID-19, a different war is playing out in Mozambique, home to one of the world’s richest...
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Published in: Home: OpinionHow civil society is fighting back against coronavirus crackdowns
For some activist groups, the crisis has provided an opportunity to build their movements.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow to improve gender-based violence research?
Using participatory and creative methods to research gender-based violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionChurchill must fall
And he can take his British nationalism with him.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA history of violence: slavery, colonialism and coups d’etat
Only through an understanding of the historical impact of colonialism can we begin to heal the wounds caused by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlack lives should matter in the Mediterranean too
Malta’s fatal strategies to counter the growing number of refugees are part of the EU’s systematic racism and...
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Published in: 50.50Sex workers abandoned as COVID crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts
Controlling COVID-19 is worsening Africa’s HIV epidemic and destroying HIV services, with sex workers facing...
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Published in: 50.50Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sex
I’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 Rand (about $5), but now I have to accept almost half that,...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa doctors fear spike in non-COVID-19 deaths
Health workers are worried that the focus on coronavirus will result in more deaths from the country’s usual killers...
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Published in: HomeThe biopolitics of COVID-19 – a personal view
“As public health and societal debates play out in the coming months, I very much hope that we can hear more of the...
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Published in: 50.50Every night, I pray that the pandemic goes away
I’m an informal market trader in South Africa and the breadwinner in our family of four. But now I can’t afford even...