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Published in: 50.50The future of sex in AfricaStigma and growing religious fundamentalism are preventing women from fully accessing a range of reproductive health...
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Published in: 50.50Where is the line between Islam and Islamism?A recent conference on freedom of expression threw up issues around relationships between ex-Muslims and reformist...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of nudity as feminist protest – from Ukraine to TunisiaFrontline activists, including women who use their topless bodies as political statements, are gathering in London...
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Published in: 50.50What is ‘femonationalism’?Academic Sara Farris talks about the 'instrumentalisation' of migrant women in Europe by right-wing nationalists –...
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Published in: 50.50Horn of Africa: there are no quick fixes in ‘countering violent extremism’An effective response to violence and harmful ideologies is important. But projects are failing to adequately engage...
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Published in: 50.50A fatwa against sexual violence: the story of a historic congress of female Islamic scholarsCan women interpret Islamic law? Scholars who think so recently gathered in Indonesia, where fatwas were also issued...
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Published in: 50.50Abortire in Italia: come l'obiezione di coscienza è diventata una minaccia per i diritti e la salute delle donneQuasi 40 anni dopo la legalizzazione dell'aborto – tra proteste e movimenti di liberazione culturale – le donne...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion in Italy: how widespread ‘conscientious objection’ threatens women’s health and rightsAlmost 40 years after abortion was legalised – amid mass protests and a broader cultural liberation movement – women...
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Published in: 50.50Re-branding hate?: ultra-conservative organising under a "family-friendly" bannerDiverse groups are joining international “pro-family” alliances. Their common cause? To block and roll back feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women and extremism are intrinsically linked: overlooking this puts rights at riskReligious groups we work with, in the fight against extremism, must have a commitment to universal rights – as well as peace.
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Published in: 50.50"This is a war": Inside the global "pro-family" movement against abortion and LGBT rightsAt a recent summit in Budapest, anti-abortion celebrities and anti-gay rights activists gathered with their...
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Published in: 50.50How Rojava-inspired women's councils have spread across EuropeCould this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rightsThe international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and...
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Published in: 50.50Gender-just laws versus “divine” law in Sri LankaThe heated debate over reforming Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka has resulted in an unprecedented mobilization of...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and fundamentalism: when religion muscles in on developmentThe truism that there cannot be real development without women’s participation needs a caveat: women’s rights cannot...
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Published in: 50.50'Faith and family': shrinking common ground at the UN CSWThe Worldwide Organization for Women took a hard line against all forms of comprehensive sexual education, often...
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Published in: 50.50Nagaland and the fight for a women's quotaTribal bodies dominated by men, protesting against a 33 percent reservation for women to participate in public...
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Published in: 50.50No borders on gender justiceAs the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) takes place in New York, gender justice advocates from around the...
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Published in: 50.50Will Nepal give equal citizenship rights to women?Nepali women are treated as second-class citizens, due to discriminatory nationality law.
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Published in: 50.50India's female genital mutilation: a thousand-year-old secretSo little was known, until recently, about the secretive practice of FGM in a small Muslim community that India is...
