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Published in: 50.50The Italian mafia and violence against womenIn the name of “culture” and “honour” young girls born into the ‘ndrangheta mafia in Calabria lose their sense of...
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Published in: 50.50What will it take to end honour based violence in the UK?‘Honour killings’ represent the tragic consequences of the failure to tackle honour based violence. Greater state...
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Published in: 50.50Transforming a victim blaming cultureMedia discussions of male violence against women focus on the actions of the victim rather than the perpetrator. How...
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Published in: 50.50The fraught road to justice: Sri Lankan victims of sexual violenceAs more women testify about their experience of sexual violence in Sri Lanka the path to redress does not become...
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Published in: 50.50A life of hope lived in defiance of violence: Rebecca Masika Katsuva“They think when they’re raped that their lives are shattered. But we’d like them to know that it’s not the end of...
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Published in: HomeAttached to abuseA new book by psychotherapist Adam Jukes analyses how both men and women can ‘choose’ abusive relationships,...
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Published in: 50.50Gloria Steinem: toward a feminist foreign policyFeminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of...
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Published in: 50.50The dishonourable killing of a Pakistani social media celebrityQandeel Baloch’s murder fuelled the debate over women’s sexuality, their lives, and their deaths. Her ‘honour’...
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Published in: 50.50The women of the rivers and forests have feminist debate?Beyond the reach of the internet and television in northern Brazil, feminist activism in the forests, on the boats...
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Published in: 50.50Justice and accountability for war related sexual violence in Sri LankaAs the testimonies of survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka’s long war enter the public domain and the...
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Published in: 50.50Questioning rape in ChinaChina is witnessing more and more spontaneous protests and online discussions against rape and the deeper structural...
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Published in: 50.50A deadly politics of wealth: femicide in IndiaCensus data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion and contraception in India: the role of menThe callous attitude of Indian men that ‘she can always abort’ in cases of an unwanted pregnancy caused by failure...
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Published in: 50.50Why the backlash against dowry laws in India?The backlash against gender-just law which seeks to protect women against dowry violence reveals the full extent of...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist Dissent: why a new journal on gender and fundamentalism?The journal Feminist Dissent creates a space to interrogate the multi-faceted links between historical and resurgent...
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Published in: 50.50Refusing to recognise polygamy in the West: a solution or a soundbite?Polygamy in the UK and the West raises many questions and challenges: integration of migrant communities, ensuring...
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Published in: 50.50I shall leave as my city turns to dust: Queens of Syria and women in warIn ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind itThe 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: 50.50Islamist terrorism: chilling echoes of Pastor NiemollerThe Islamists have us all in their sights. We are all targets. It is incumbent upon us all to speak up. Being Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Piece of Silk: "When story-telling is a matter of life and death"The play, Piece of Silk, is a powerful study of the experiences of women survivors of domestic abuse - an experience...
