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Published in: 50.50Iran: human rights lawyers in distressThe Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is on a life-threatening dry hunger strike in Evin prison. Silencing Sotoudeh is...
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Published in: 50.50Some women in GazaThere are many different social codes governing what women can and can’t do in Gaza, where new fact finding missions...
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Published in: 50.50US Election 2010: Obama lost the terms of debate and a large segment of white women
The modern women's movement changed the terms of debate and eventually the national conversation. During this...
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Published in: 50.50No more 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'
As a political instrument of power projection and status, nuclear weapons carry a peculiarly masculine symbolism. In...
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Published in: 50.50Dissecting global civil society: values, actors, organisational forms
What we see in global civil society depends on what value lens we use to define it. The trend towards networked...
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Published in: 50.50Civil society diplomats at the UN
" We’re not interested in making war safe for women… There are many substitutes for oil, but I can't think of a...
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Published in: oDRDaring to speak out in BelarusA chilling account of brave journalists in Lukashenka’s Belarus, so many of whom die in unexplained circumstances....
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Published in: oDROutcasts — inmates of the Black Eagle
In Stalin’s time there were nearly a hundred GULag camps in Ivdel. Today, the maximum security penal colony FBU-IK...
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Published in: 50.50Cities of migration: what works to integrate urban migrants?
Immigration policy may be nationally determined but the experience of settlement and integration is a uniquely local...
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Published in: 50.50Integration: a two way process
Unless the barriers to integration are reduced in the UK, in another twenty years a new wave of migrants will be...
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Published in: 50.50Sterilisation: the fight for bodily integrity
Accessing justice has been a long process for the sterilized HIV positive women whose cases are being heard before a...
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Published in: 50.50Dignity denied
"In Chile medical staff pressure HIV positive women to not have children or chastise them for getting pregnant, and...
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Published in: 50.50A funding struggle for an HIV prevention in women’s handsScientific decisions over AIDS are in danger of being left at the mercy of economics as scientists and activists...
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Published in: 50.501325: an exciting moment
"If we’ve done as much with as little resources as women have, think what we could do with more. Women are the...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in war: the time for 'never again' is now
On October 17th thousands of Congolese women, led by Olive Lembe Kabila marched to end impunity for sexual violence...
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Published in: 50.501325 and the violent world of small arms
Earlier this year the Philippines became the first country in Asia to launch a National Action Plan to implement...
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Published in: 50.50UN business: women, guns and small arms control
"It is not about feminism, it is about business. Member states give us money to implement projects, and if I...
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Published in: 50.50The secular state: protector of women's rights?
By relying on the secular state as the answer to the religious right and entrusting the Left with the protection of...
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Published in: 50.50'Jesus was a feminist'
Ghanaian feminist theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye speaks to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah about religion, patriarchy and...
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Published in: 50.50Tales of the lionesses: the third African Feminist Forum
Where does feminism fit in our narrative of African experience? What is the vision of Africa’s ‘lionesses’- feminist...