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Published in: 50.50“We’re not just here to learn – we can lead too”: young women human rights defenders speak outYoung activists from four continents talk about their local struggles and what motivates them.
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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 do we fight anti-rights fundamentalism at the United Nations?An extract from the first report of a new initiative tracks how fundamentalist groups have embraced the UN as a site...
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Published in: 50.50"Visionary and creative resistance": meet the women challenging extractivism – and patriarchyEnvironmental degradation is deliberate, violent and patriarchal. From Turkey to Guatemala, women are on the...
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Published in: 50.50Older women living with HIV in the UK: discrimination and broken confidentialityWomen accessing HIV care services in the UK report being told to use separate cutlery, being refused help to shower,...
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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: 50.50Without 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: 50.50No 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: 50.50Time 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: 50.50Berta Vive! Lessons from Honduras on resistanceA year on from the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Caceres, five Honduras leaders give key lessons on...
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Published in: 50.50Quantity and quality: Part 1 on funding women’s rightsThe first international women’s fund explores how funding women and girls translates (or doesn’t) into money for...
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Published in: 50.50The right kind of money: Part 3 on funding women's rightsMama Cash explores how funding women and girls translates (or doesn’t) into money for feminist movements. The final...
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Published in: 50.50Trump's slap in the face of Lady LibertyWill women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The...
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Published in: 50.50Under Trump, we are all womenThe same strategies used against women for decades by the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement are now,...
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Published in: 50.50On India’s Republic Day, we must remember Kunan PoshporaAs the Kunan Poshpora mass rape hearings continue, we talk to the co-author of a book which seeks to remember the...
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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: 50.50The voice of Berta Cáceres has become the voice of millionsGraffiti on the walls in Honduras - Berta Vive! Teenagers chanting as they march - Berta Caceres Flores, sown in the...
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Published in: 50.50A move to set free child sex abusers: in the name of “our culture”Recent law reform initiatives on sexual crimes against children in Turkey reveal the growing danger for women and...
