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woman at a protest, holding a sign saying 'education for women and girls is basic human rights!'
03 February 2023

Educating Afghan Girls: Will it be possible to move from the confines of cages towards the sky?

At the end of last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. In light of […]

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19 December 2022

The Kigali Declaration: (Re)Committing to Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

The Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 145th Assembly recently held in Rwanda was on ‘Gender equality and gender-sensitive parliaments as drivers of change for a more resilient and peaceful world’. It resulted in the […]

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07 October 2021

‘Scratched Identities’: Shatha Altowai on Creating Art in Yemen

“Because I am a woman, I had to hide my own identity for a very long time. I fought with all my strength to get it back, and to be […]

Gender, Work and Social Control: A century of disability benefits. Dr Jackie Gulland.
08 February 2021

Gender, work and social control: a century of disability benefits

by Jackie GullandI am delighted that this book has won the Social Policy Association’s Richard Titmuss Book Award. In this blog I want to tell you a little about what […]

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13 July 2020

A recovery plan which works for women also works for the planet

This blog post first appeared on ‘On the Engender,’ the blog of Scotland’s Feminist and Policy Advocacy Organisation. Claire Duncanson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of […]

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