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Published in: 50.50How Rojava-inspired women's councils have spread across EuropeCould this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing...
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Published in: 50.50Gender-just laws versus “divine” law in Sri LankaThe heated debate over reforming Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka has resulted in an unprecedented mobilization of...
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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: 50.50How will President Trump’s administration affect women and girls across the world?Alongside this year’s UN CSW, we asked women doing gender work across the globe how US President Donald Trump’s...
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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: 50.50The new UN secretary general is poised to show the world what a feminist looks likeThere has been real progress at this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the new Secretary General has...
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Published in: 50.50Who runs the world? Girls! Not at the UN CSWAt this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women, the empowerment of girls is getting more attention than ever...
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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: 50.50PR, profit and ‘empowering women’ in the garment industryHow can a global garment value chain that relies on the systemic devaluation of female labour be expected to fulfil...
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Published in: 50.50Nagaland and the fight for a women's quotaTribal bodies dominated by men, protesting against a 33 percent reservation for women to participate in public...
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Published in: 50.50Indigenous women brave the storm to begin talks at UN CSWDespite the winter storm that shut down other events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the event on...
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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: 50.50Collaborations: Part 2 on funding women's rightsMama Cash explores how funding women and girls translates (or doesn’t) into money for feminist movements. The second...
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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: 50.50Standing our ground at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)When civic space is under attack, we make no dangerous accommodations. We stand up, and we fight back.
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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,...
