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This contribution discusses how German history and identity have shaped the country’s moral orientation toward Israel. There is insufficient space...
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This article unpacks the effects of IMF policies on gender equality as a whole, with a particular focus on unpaid and underpaid labor.
By promoting austerity, shrinking fiscal spaces, imposing the "cascade approach", and shaping development paradigms, IFIs undermine social protection...
This article explores the gendered implications of gender-blind structural adjustment programs (SAP) on the education of girls and vulnerable groups...
This article sheds light on the neoliberal interventions led by IFIs and their relevance to feminist activism and action in the MENA region.
This article revisits the History of Women’s Day in the world and the MENA region and calls for the re-politicization of IWD.
Whenever I grow tired of the heated Twitter discussions, I flee to Instagram to hide there for a while.
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Women protest denouncing the violence that took place against them at an earlier protest against the military in Sudan.
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