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Published in: 50.50Mexico: the war on drugs is becoming a war on womenWomen human rights defenders in Mexico are increasingly targeted, often by government forces, since drug war...
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Published in: 50.50Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistance
In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...
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Published in: 50.50"We are not women, we are Egyptians": spaces of protest and representation
A focus on the spaces where women asserted their public presence in the Egyptian revolution reveals a great deal...
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Published in: 50.50Who owns your child’s school? The rise and rise of edu-business
Faster than we recognise, schools are becoming profit centres. The buildings, the teaching, the cleaning, the exam...
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Published in: 50.50The sources of global homophobia
Activists and politicians working for the human rights of LGBT people must study the history which underlies the...
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Published in: 50.50How respect, a mobile phone and an App could prevent future riotsNormal 0 0 1 43 249 2 1 305 11.0 0 0 0 As the Riots Panel publishes its final report on the London 2011 riots, the...
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Published in: 50.50Football and the game of politics in EgyptThe Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' call for an official inquiry into football violence, following the deaths...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and destitution in the UK
The real migration scandal in the UK are the people forced to live without any recourse to public funds. Migrant...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism is funnyArtist Sarah Maple’s new exhibition places feminism firmly at the centre of its work, using comedy to explore 21st...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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Published in: 50.50Changing lives in Burundi: "Now I am no longer beaten"Women in Burundi have won radical changes to the country's Penal Code, making rape punishable by life imprisonment....
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Published in: 50.50Contraception: the new American soap opera
The war over contraception in America during the last bizarre month was never about religious freedom or women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Faith: know thy placeThe feminist critique of religion should not appease the strident voices which label secularism as fundamentalist or...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating the Arab spring from within
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...
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Published in: 50.50The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen'
Governments are constructing social policy based on misrepresentations and stereotypes about poor people and welfare...
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Published in: 50.50The hidden lives of child widows
Child widows, some less than ten years old, face bleak futures as they bear the triple disadvantage of gender,...
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Published in: 50.50Migrations:reconstructing 'Britishness' in art
The Tate Britain exhibition, ‘Migrations: Journeys into British Art’ highlights migrants’ central role in the...
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Published in: 50.50Of mini-skirts and morals: social control in Nigeria
The push to police the way that women dress continues across Africa on the pretext that it causes sexual harassment...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism
It’s not an individualist but a collective feminism that we need, one that measures success not by how high a woman...
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Published in: 50.50‘Gays, Gods and Governments': homophobia in Uganda
The drama playing out in Kampala over the tabling of the Anti Homosexual Bill for its first reading in the Ugandan...
