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Published in: 50.50Becoming a feminist15 years ago, I was a school girl with no awareness that Beijing was happening, but plenty of awareness of sexism....
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Published in: 50.50Widowhood: invisible for how much longer?Margaret Owen has been trying to get the CSW to address the poverty of widows for 12 years. This is her last...
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Published in: 50.50My Beijing diaryJane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith was a member of the UK delegation to Beijing in 1995, extracts from her diary capture the...
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Published in: 50.50Brazilian feminists on the alertBrazilian feminists have made steady progress at both national and regional levels with establishing sexual and...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging ourselves at Beijing +15Sunila Abeysekera lists the achievements of Beijing’95, and argues now that the priority for women’s movements...
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Published in: 50.50Equality between women and men is not a ‘women’s issue’As the 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review action on the promises made in Beijing’95, will the...
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Published in: 50.50Holding up half the sky: not for ourselves aloneAs the UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review the implementation of the radical Beijing Platform for...
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Published in: 50.50What’s wrong with a democratic world with justice, equality, development and peace?As Cora Weiss reflects on the Beijing ’95 conference on women her dream is that we do not make war safe for women,...
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Published in: 50.50Reconceptualising warWhat if defeating the enemy was the justification for war, but not its real goal? What if its goal was a certain...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformation
As Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50Vital peace constituencies
The last decade has seen much more detailed attention to the many, sometimes contradictory, roles women play in...
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Published in: 50.50Iran protests: what went wrong ?
In the wake of 22 Bahman and in the doldrums of anti-climax, the Iranian blogosphere is asking itself one question:...
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Published in: 50.50Thinly veiled misogynyAs French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to drive through a ban on the niqab and burqa, Laurie Penny describes...
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Published in: 50.50Guinea-Conakry: the price of political rape
The transition to democracy in Guinea-Conakry is both a lesson and a warning to those who would wield rape as an...
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Published in: openEconomyRadical Homemakers
Rediscovering and reshaping a world in which husbands were house-bound and families were free, what are the skills...
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Published in: 50.50Meeting in monochrome: women and the Afghanistan conference
The picture said it all; an expanse of suits broken only by Hillary's blonde bob floating in their midst. The London...
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Published in: 50.50Negotiating with the Taliban: the view from below
While the only official woman delegate in the Afghan mission to the London Conference pleaded that women’s rights...
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Published in: HomeBritain and genocide
The official annual commemoration of a century of genocide and its victims should be accompanied by a responsible...
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Published in: 50.50CEDAW: designed to be used
CEDAW is not just a wish list from which politicians in the UK can ‘pick-n-mix’ when drawing up their shopping lists...
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Published in: 50.50Politics, race and the recession
During a recession British politicians need to listen to civil society and think carefully about how they debate race.