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Published in: 50.50‘Now, every woman knows she needs to fight violence everywhere’Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to end wartime sexual violence and why she appreciates...
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Published in: 50.50Copts of Egypt: from survivors of sectarian violence to targets of terrorismRecent bombings mark a new era in the religious targeting of Copts – one which is qualitatively different from...
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Published in: 50.50Without global solidarity the women’s movement will collapseBorders are closing across the world, blocking women from the Global South both from seeking refuge, having a voice...
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Published in: 50.50Internally displaced women: social rupture and political voiceDisplacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...
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Published in: 50.50Uganda’s unsung heroes of refugee protectionAs responses to refugees and asylum-seekers become a multi-million dollar endeavour globally, everyday acts of...
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Published in: 50.50Precarious migrant motherhood in LebanonEthiopian migrant domestic workers who give birth to children in Lebanon are caught in a trap between the struggle...
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Published in: 50.50Are we all beheaded Copts?Is the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya associated with a broader political project of cleansing...
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Published in: 50.50Since I gave you a phone it’s not rapeAs evidence of UN peacekeepers’ sexual violence against Black African women and girls grows, media reporting and...
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Published in: 50.50A life of hope lived in defiance of violence: Rebecca Masika Katsuva“They think when they’re raped that their lives are shattered. But we’d like them to know that it’s not the end of...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: depression or oppression?Women continuing to push for change in Egypt are bearing the psychological toll of a rigid post-revolution politics...
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Published in: 50.50Refugee women in the UK: Pushing a stone into the sea
From personal experience I know that arrival in the UK for asylum seekers does not signal safety, but reform is a...
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Published in: 50.50On freeing Kenya's pastoralist communities from discriminationAn interview with Justine N. Leisiano on her work defending girls’, women’s and disabled people’s rights in the...
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Published in: 50.50Classifying bodies, denying freedomsFrom sex to race, classification is a tool of oppression. Abuse directed at Caster Semenya lies at the centre of the...
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Published in: 50.50Trans women and feminism: the struggle is realAt the centre of the troubled relationship between trans women and feminists are the questions of who gets to be a...
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Published in: 50.50Stay Woke: sustaining feminist organising in an uncertain worldAutonomous feminist spaces must be guarded jealously. They are an important lifeline for feminists to re-charge and...
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Published in: 50.50Tanzanian pastoralist women: HIV and health rightsVertical health service provision alone will not solve the gender-based violence and HIV challenges facing...
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Published in: 50.50Oscar Pistorius: shooting to kill
Can a white man be morally absolved if it is decided that he meant to shoot an ‘imaginary black intruder’ rather...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind itThe reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular...
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Published in: 50.50The back way to Europe: Gambia’s forgotten refugeesThe distinction between a refugee and other irregular migrants coming from the Gambia is hard to maintain in a...
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Published in: 50.50Furthering freedom of religion and belief in Muslim-majority countriesBallot boxes before a culture of toleration for diversity of beliefs takes root in the minds of people can make...
