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Published in: 50.50Meeting in monochrome: women and the Afghanistan conferenceThe 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.
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Published in: 50.50Violence and democracy in Bolivia
Dr Ana Maria Encina’s election earlier this month as mayor of Santa Cruz is a sign that Bolivian women are not going...
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Published in: 50.50War: justifiable or simply catastrophic?The global phenomenon of war distorts our ongoing attempts to build peace in conflict after conflict and in many...
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Published in: 50.50Bosnia's error of othering
Bosnia is saddled with a peace settlement for a constitution, and that is getting in the way of building a functioning state
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Published in: 50.50Is gender a universal category? The double edged sword of identity politics.
Jameen Kaur reports on the three day conference on ‘Women Deepening Democracy: Transforming Gender Equality. From...
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Published in: 50.50Deepening democracy by building gender equality
The conference on 'Women deepening democracy' held in New Delhi last week examined what can be done to tackle the...
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Published in: 50.50Stress, quarrels and neglect: the 'normal' polygamous family
A large-scale study currently underway across Malaysia uncovers proof that polygamy harms everyone involved: from...
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Published in: 50.50Peace process in Mindanao
How does conflict transformation work? Peace advisers have a particular range of skills which must be adapted and...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond stalemate: replacing the vicious with the virtuous circleWhat is conflict transformation? How do you begin to approach the mutual hurt of conflict embedded in systems and...
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Published in: 50.50The challenge of moving from war to peaceOne of the challenges in this set of unseen and unsung practices is how to make it visible and strengthen its...
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Published in: 50.50Nuanced agency in local-international peacebuilding:In attempting to secure nonviolent transformation as a bottom-up mechanism, ‘uncomfortable voices’ may be ignored in...
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Published in: 50.50A Welcome to Diana Francis’ reflections: Conflict TransformedThis new generation missed out on the US civil rights movement, where nonviolent direct action was employed...
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Published in: 50.50What will it take to realise our vision of a just and equal world?
After thirty years of CEDAW, gender equality is at a vital juncture. How can we progress towards a just and equal...
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Published in: 50.50Last but not least: CEDAW and family law
When injustice in marriage and the family is such a pervasive experience for women and girls, why is family law...
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Published in: 50.50Making human rights for women a reality
There has been a critical shift from CEDAW being an aspirational international document, to its gender equality...
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Published in: 50.50The wedding dress with attitudeMalians do a good line in combining fashion and public relations for the causes they care about. Fatoumata and...