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Women’s rights: obvious litmus for success in Afghanistan

zohra25 October 2012

Today saw the publication of the findings of the International Development Committee's (IDC) parliamenary inquiry into the UK's intervention in Afghanistan. A...

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London Family Planning Summit report back

zohra12 July 2012

Following my last post on this, spent the day at the London Family Planning Summit yesterday as a blogger for The F Word. For those of you on twitter who are ...

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Did the Tokyo Conference deliver for Afghan Women?

zohra10 July 2012

Trigger Warning. The same day that delegates from over 70 countries convened in Tokyo to discuss future aid to Afghanistan, Reuters released footage (trigger...

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Afghan women’s rights on the brink

zohra6 July 2012

Over ten years since we first entered Afghanistan, it remains true that it is one of the worst places to be a woman. 87% of women in Afghanistan experience so...

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Sex, choice and control: what violence has to do with family planning

zohra27 June 2012

It's sort of unbelievable that millions of women and girls around the world are having to have sex and bear children when they don't want to. The UN and other...

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AWID Forum: on feminist movements

zohra22 April 2012

Last day at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)'s 12th Forum today, which Josephine and I are both attending (previous posts here and her...

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AWID Forum: where are the propositions?

zohra21 April 2012

As Josephine posted earlier today, we are both at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)'s forum. The forum happens every 2-3 years and thi...

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African activists on British aid & LGBTI people

zohra27 October 2011

A statement has just been released calling on the British Government to rethink its approach to cutting aid as a way to promote human rights. The full statem...

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More on floods in Pakistan and gender impact

Jess McCabe3 September 2010

Information on the gender impacts of the recent tragic flood in Pakistan is just now being parsed. The Global Fund for Women has a guest post which brings toge...

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