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Published in: 50.50Young feminist movements: the power of technology
Young feminists are coming of age in a tech-focused and tech-literate world and using technology to organize locally...
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Published in: 50.50Building a bridge to the future: towards a feminist UN
What will it take for the world’s women to shift the UN away from its paradigm of patriarchy and gender inequality...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind it
The reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular...
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Published in: 50.50Myth-busting in defense of grassroots women crisis responders
False claims that deny the impact of grassroots women's crisis responses are diverting much needed resources away...
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Published in: 50.50Behind the murder of Berta Cáceres: corporate complicity
The corporate denial of violation of human rights in the death of Berta Cáceres reveals the web of complicities and...
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Published in: 50.50Berta’s struggle is our global struggle…
Berta Cáceres’s assassination is a painful reminder of the way in which a trinity of corporate, government and...
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Published in: 50.50The fateful marriage: political violence and violence against women
Pervasive and diverse, instances of violence against women can only be fully comprehended in the political contexts...
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Published in: 50.50When does the violation of women's bodies become a "red line"?
If people divide their understanding of militarized violence into normal and not normal, acceptable and not...
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Published in: 50.50Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is security
It feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of 'safety' that are really about...
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Published in: 50.50Defending the Defenders: a daunting challenge
Women human rights defenders are under attack. The Nobel Women's Initiative conference convenes today to deepen the...
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Published in: 50.50The missing link in women's human rights
Gender incompetent policies and hierarchical understandings of rights dominate global economic governance...
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Published in: 50.50Women's rights have no country
There 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: 50.50Women's human rights: Watering the leaves, starving the roots
Women and girls are in the public eye, recognized as key agents in development as never before. So why doesn't the...
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Published in: 50.50A transformative strategy: the true value of investing in women’s rights
What happened to the largest pot of money ever made available for advancing gender equality and human rights?...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains
Among all the social movements of the past century, the struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has been the...