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When Muslim Women “Need Development”


Posted by eren on 31 May 2016 / 0 Comments
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International development policies have been my bread and butter for the past two years, both academically and professionally. When I first entered this field, I wanted to understand why development programming was only guided towards non-white people. Didn’t the world overall need “development”? As I soon learned, the word “development” as it is used in […]

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How Not to Discuss Sexual Violence against Third World Women


Posted by eren on 16 Dec 2013 / 4 Comments
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Last week I was invited to the Dutch embassy to celebrate the launching of the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s report on sexual violence against women in Sudan. The report is titled “Survivors Speak Out: Sexual Violence in Sudan,” and it is meant to address the situation of “mass rape” and other forms of sexual violence against […]

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