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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Left and the Big Society VII: Hilary Wainwright of Red PepperIn this latest interview in our Big Society Challenge series, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper, contrasts...
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Published in: 50.50Positive women human rights defendersWhen the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one...
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Published in: 50.50Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?
Woman-hating continues to occupy a central and too-often unrecognised and unchallenged position within our culture....
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Published in: 50.50Gender and the perils of identity politics in India
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around...
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Published in: 50.50The unhappy marriage of religion and politics
Subtle and overt forms of resistance notwithstanding, it is clear that women’s rights advocates need to be vigilant...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTelling the story of how women become asylum seekersLet the women who come to Britain for asylum from rape and mayhem in their own countries, be heard. The theatre...
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Published in: 50.50‘N-A-T-O? What’s that stand for?’How can we cheer NATO for promising equality for women in an institution we deplore? We are saying: ‘military...
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Published in: 50.50Prophecy is suggesting the possible
"Our values of interdependence are no longer crazy talk. Our language has been mainstreamed." Diana Francis reports...
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Published in: 50.50Two inches below the neck
The battle to defeat the Indecent Dressing Bill in Nigeria marks another point in the struggle between feminists and...
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Published in: 50.50War and 1325: principles or diversity checkbox ?
Why were women career soldiers, US defense contractors, female peace activists and Pentagon officials talking to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRemember the Suffragettes: a Black Friday vigil in honour of direct action
A hundred years ago a massive confrontation outside parliament led to two suffragettes dying from police brutality...
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, fundamentalism, power and prejudice
International human rights law is not a sufficient basis for responding to religious fundamentalism. Fundamentalisms...
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Published in: HomeThe struggle after people power winsWith peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election....
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Published in: 50.50Faith in service: what has gender got to do with it?
Faith-based organizations are playing increasingly prominent roles in service delivery. However, the premise that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe balance sheet on Labour's 13 years: so much good, such an opportunity lost - Toynbee and Walker reviewedAs Polly Toynbee and David Walker round off their running audit of Labour’s record, Pat Thane considers the many...
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Published in: oDRTime for the human approachDmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....
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Published in: 50.50Killing a Mockingbird: Letter to my unborn daughter
There is something about education that confers dignity and breaks chains. It is the reason, dear daughter, why I...
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Published in: 50.50Health for all 'whatever their need or background’
The British government's policy of moving away from national, centralised systems of decision making in health care...
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Published in: 50.50Globalising the city
There is an emotional logic as well as a business case for openness and diversity in migration policy. Nazek Ramadan...
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Published in: 50.50Iran: human rights lawyers in distress
The Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is on a life-threatening dry hunger strike in Evin prison. Silencing Sotoudeh is...