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Published in: 50.50Global Femicide WatchDubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, explains to Yakin Erturk why she is calling...
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Published in: 50.50International Rights of Nature Tribunal: Pachamama vs ‘macho papas’Parallel to COP21, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal convened in Paris. The ‘climate crimes’ it heard were...
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Published in: 50.50Defending land and community: women on the frontlines of climate justiceThroughout Southeast Asia, hundreds of women environmental activists have been jailed, attacked and defamed as...
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Published in: 50.50UN peacekeeping: blue banner for hope, or red flag for abuse?For decades the ‘Blue Helmets’ have been sexually exploiting and abusing those they were sent to protect. The UN is...
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Published in: 50.50Nepal: the struggle for equal citizenship rights for womenNepal's new constitution was widely celebrated as progressive, but restrictions on a woman's right to pass on...
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Published in: 50.50Ghana: women at war in a country at peaceThe absence of war does not necessarily imply peace for women. The binary opposites of war and peace obscure the...
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Published in: 50.50Sea change for gender equity in Canada: great smoke, how much fire?Justin Trudeau has pledged to open a national inquiry into the staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women...
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Published in: 50.50The Hillary Doctrine: untangling sex and American foreign policyTwenty years ago Hillary Clinton declared that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human...
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Published in: 50.50Narendra Modi, gender violence, and the Hindu Right's agendaIndia is facing a relentless nightmare of violence against minorities, Dalits and those who dissent from the agenda...
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Published in: 50.50Missed opportunities: gender and the UN's peacebuilding reportsThe Open Debate this week on the 15th anniversary of SCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security is the UN's chance to...
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Published in: 50.50Energy democracy: building a solar dream in a tar sands nightmareRefusing to be victims in this game of fossil fuel roulette, communities like Little Buffalo in Alberta are leading...
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Published in: 50.50Mapping women's resistance to social and ecological degradationWomen coming together to cross pollinate ideas and build understanding about differing burdens, responsibilities,...
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Published in: 50.50Corbyn and housing justice in BritainThe election of the new Labour leader is a time for guarded hope but not for a change of tactics. Local campaigns...
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Published in: 50.50Security theology: life, death and the everyday in Israel-PalestineNadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian spoke to Zoe Holman in the West Bank about Israeli settler-colonialism, a necropolitical...
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Published in: 50.50The 2015 US Trafficking Report: signs of decline?
The US Trafficking in Persons Report exposes exploitation and holds governments to account. But creeping...
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Published in: 50.50Those who believe in freedom: Yara SallamYara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women's prison outside Cairo. She says, "I do not...
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Published in: 50.50Pragna Patel: a politics of hope and not hate
"At the heart of my work is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist...
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Published in: 50.50Hope's song: my companion in life's journey
On my way from Zimbabwe to Amsterdam I shared a seat with a man called Musi. He was curious about how I became a...
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Published in: 50.50Libya: "Rejoicing at our bloody democracy"For sustainable peace, the UN must refuse to sanction militarism as the default response to unwanted migration and...
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Published in: 50.50How land rights are politicising Cambodia's women
Land grabbing and forced evictions have created an activist movement among women who traditionally conform to strict...
