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Published in: 50.50Time for a Fifth World Conference on Women?Not holding a fifth UN world conference in 2015 has left a vacuum, a dangerous thing when patriarchal...
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Published in: 50.50Out of the box: Megan Prescott on Skins, bodybuilding and busting gender rolesMegan Prescott discusses her experiences of gender inequality, public scrutiny and subverting stereotypes as a young...
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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...
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Published in: 50.50The Indian judiciary are paper tigersIn the final of a three-part series dealing with the law on domestic violence in India, we focus on the failures of...
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Published in: 50.50A jail, not a shelter: women’s refuges in IndiaOn the tenth anniversary of a major law dealing with domestic violence in India, we explore how the poor quality of...
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Published in: 50.50Is the Indian law on domestic violence fit for purpose?In the first of this three part series, we examine the effectiveness of one of the major planks of the domestic...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking justice for rape by the state in Bastar, IndiaFor tribal women living in the Bastar region of central India, sexual abuse at the hands of security forces has...
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Published in: 50.50When a Man Kills a WomanAcross everything that divides societies, we share in common that men’s violence against women is normalised,...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and humiliation at the job centreThe lack of self-confidence among young women looking for a job in Britain, revealed in the ‘Work It Out’ report, is...
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Published in: 50.50Donors thinking big: beyond gender equality fundsThe case for investing in southern women’s rights organisations is firmly established, but to create sustainability,...
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Published in: 50.50Fatherhood – take it at your own riskInternational Men’s Day is a moment to interrogate how Britain’s parental leave system continues to exclude men from...
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Published in: 50.50Hungarian 'women's health': stigma and coercionPolitical and media institutions in Hungary are promoting a coercive culture of intervention in female bodies under...
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Published in: 50.50Is a feminist United Nations possible in our lifetime?Hopes for a female, feminist UN Secretary-General look increasingly unlikely, but there are creative ideas...
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Published in: 50.50The distance travelled: Beijing, Hillary, and women's rightsHillary Rodham Clinton will need to listen to the voices of women working at grassroots on the frontline, and be...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion and contraception in India: the role of menThe callous attitude of Indian men that ‘she can always abort’ in cases of an unwanted pregnancy caused by failure...
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Published in: 50.50Why the backlash against dowry laws in India?The backlash against gender-just law which seeks to protect women against dowry violence reveals the full extent of...
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Published in: 50.50Nepali widows: changing colours, changing mindsetsThe growing widows’ movement in Nepal is winning rights for single and widowed women, and challenging the...
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Published in: 50.50Refusing to recognise polygamy in the West: a solution or a soundbite?Polygamy in the UK and the West raises many questions and challenges: integration of migrant communities, ensuring...
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Published in: 50.50Myth-busting in defense of grassroots women crisis respondersFalse claims that deny the impact of grassroots women's crisis responses are diverting much needed resources away...
