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Published in: 50.50Movements, money and social change: how to advance women’s rightsAt the UN CSW underway in New York, a statement signed by almost 1000 women’s rights organizations calls out the...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women's rights: no time for dissent
The act of dissent should match the need for equality, rather than the time for equality. In the fight for a right,...
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Published in: 50.50Salaam and Paz: the word for Peace is Women
Situated far from sites of official peace negotiations, women’s activism, caretaking and community-building is often...
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Published in: 50.50Peace and reunification in Korea: in our life timeWomen peacemakers are planning a peace walk across the De-Militarized Zone to bring global attention to the...
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Published in: 50.50The missing link in women's human rightsGender incompetent policies and hierarchical understandings of rights dominate global economic governance...
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Published in: 50.50Our bodies as battlegroundsFrom Kyrgyzstan to Brazil and Sri Lanka, young feminists are trying to shift the debate over sexual and reproductive...
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Published in: 50.50The world's girls: no voice, no rightsHow can we address the global threat to women's rights with no space for girls’ - or even women’s - voices at the...
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Published in: 50.50The triple whammy: towards the eclipse of women’s rightsCaught in the cross-fire of political opportunism, neo-liberal triumphalism and geopolitical adventurism, feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Women defenders of human rights: the good, the great and the gutsyHarriet Wistrich is a beacon in the darkness that threatens to engulf the British legal system today with massive...
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Published in: 50.50Women's rights have no countryThere is no blueprint for holding fast against the arguments used to dismiss women's humanity, or defending our hard...
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Published in: 50.50CEDAW and the quest of Iranian women for gender equality
A basic right for Iranian women could be guaranteed within an Islamic framework of governance provided those in...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a reality too dark in which to glimpse hope?The last known message from the Egyptian activist Zainab Mahdy reads, " It's like we're digging in water...There is...
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Published in: 50.50Nuclear survivors' testimony: from hell to hope
Participants at the HINW Conference were screened for nuclear contamination yesterday, before listening to testimony...
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Published in: 50.50Progressive Muslims in a world of ISIS and Islamophobes
Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values, explains the struggle to organize progressive Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Young feminists: resisting the tide of fundamentalismsFundamentalism is a root cause of multiple forms of violence experienced by young women and trans*youth worldwide....
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Published in: 50.50The stories we tell about ISIS and women
Political and popular discussions about strategies to confront ISIS are doing women in Iraq and Syria a disservice,...
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Published in: 50.50The Global Slavery Index: seduction and obfuscationThe Global Slavery Index is critically flawed: compromised by a weak methodology, unverified assumptions and...
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Published in: 50.50Bhopal: "until my last breath"
Remembering the women survivors of the Bhopal catastrophe who are at the forefront of the fight for justice and a...
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Published in: 50.50The Handmaid's Tale of El SalvadorPoverty, misogyny, and Christian fundamentalism in El Salvador lie behind the prison sentences of up to forty years...
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Published in: 50.50The right to walk alone without fearThe Reclaim the Night marches through night-time city centres tap into a righteous and rising anger, and are a way...
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