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Published in: 50.50The politics and culture of skin bleaching in SudanThe past 25 years have witnessed fundamental sociopolitical and cultural changes in Sudan. Women have been the...
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Published in: 50.50Women's human security rights in the Arab world: on nobody's agendaSecurity breakdown has wreaked havoc with women’s lives in Arab transition countries, but it is hardly recognized in...
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Published in: 50.50An end to AIDS?: Not through medication aloneIn the world of HIV, the allure of the bio-medical techno-fix still attracts many policy makers. Meanwhile a...
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Published in: 50.50Immunity and impunity in peace keeping: the protection gap
Trafficking and sexual exploitation are an integral part of armed conflict and its aftermath. Madeleine Rees argues...
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Published in: 50.50The quest for gender-just peace: from impunity to accountability
Yakin Erturk reflects on the six years she spent working as the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, and...
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Published in: 50.50Problematic protection: the law on Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan
The attempt to get the Afghan parliament to ratify a key law on violence against women ended in a fiasco and has...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Bosnia: how war lives on in everyday life
Rape has been recognized as a war crime in international and Bosnian law, but women survivors seldom receive the...
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Published in: 50.50Finland’s paradox of equality: professional excellence, domestic abuse
Finland is regularly touted as a paragon of gender equality and one of the most progressive countries for women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Rape in the UK: myths about myths
The old myths around rape persist. Many people still believe that 'serious' rape must be a violent attack. Now new...
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Published in: 50.50India: The BJP, rape, and the status of women
A new group of secular intellectuals in India argues that the BJP’s real attitude towards women is based on a...
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Published in: 50.50Remembering our dead: global violence against trans people
In most countries, data on murdered trans people are not systematically produced. Meaningful research requires...
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Published in: 50.50"160 Girls": Making legal history in the fight against sexual violenceA landmark decision by the High Court in Kenya found that police inaction in dealing with rape cases brought by 160...
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Published in: 50.50Political motherhood vs violence against mothersThe Activist Mothers of Xalapa have united their individual power as mothers to create a collective political...
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Published in: 50.50Excluded and silenced: Women in Northern Ireland after the peace process
There is a backlash against women’s agency in Northern Ireland in a number of different ways, all of which impact on...
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Published in: 50.50From the war on terror to austerity: a lost decade for women and human rightsPatriarchy, militarism and neoliberalism have created a matrix in which women and women’s rights can never flourish...
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Published in: 50.50"We want peace. We’re tired of war"
"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging militarized masculinities
It is not that ‘masculinity’ generates war, as the question has been put, but rather that the process of...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and fury: women and post-revolutionary violencePutting episodes of post-Arab spring violence against women down to a routine manifestation of patriarchy and its...
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Published in: 50.50State complicity in the sexual abuse of women in CairoThere is a growing belief that the post-revolution spate of sexual attacks on women is a reflection of a large-scale...
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Published in: 50.50The gender politics of funding women human rights defenders
Lack of funding for women’s rights is a form of gender-based violence which is so pervasive that it goes largely...
