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Published in: 50.50Mona Eltahawy and sexual revolution in the Middle East'Traumatised into feminism,' Mona Eltahawy speaks of her decision to unveil and understanding that 'Muslim women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Romani women of the Balkans: battling intersectional oppressionCenturies old oppression founded on gender, race, cultural group, and socio-economic class is being challenged by...
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Published in: 50.50Gender violence in Spain: from electoral tool to decisive issue ?As political parties in Spain struggle to form a government this week their commitment to dealing with violence...
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Published in: 50.50An intimate intifadaRecognizing and understanding Palestinian women’s unprecedented engagement in the latest wave of violence in Israel...
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Published in: 50.50Gender lenses and refugee assistanceGender matters greatly in any form of third party assistance. Refugee camps are not sanctuaries from violence if...
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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: 50.50John Kerry, where are women’s voices in the Syria peace talks?The US may be tempted to congratulate itself for wrangling Russia to the table for the meeting on Syria’s peace...
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Published in: 50.50Child sexual abuse: failing another generation of children?The Office of the Children’s Commissioner reveals that in England 1.3 million will suffer sexual abuse in their...
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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: 50.50Are children sacrificed in the interests of an abusive father's right of access?Spanish law recognises children as direct victims of gender violence, but an abusive father's right of access on...
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Published in: 50.50The Day You Catch the Fish: speaking out on domestic abuseViolence is manifested in so many ways, yet it is always the violence that comes within the domestic space that...
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Published in: 50.50Welcome to our house: women living with HIVThe largest survey on women living with HIV, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, has revealed the stark...
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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: 50.5016 Days: cutting Black and minority ethnic women's organisationsThe EU Victims Directive comes into force this month. Will it prevent the further decimation of Black and minority...
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Published in: 50.5016 Days: asset stripping the women’s sector in the UKThe quality of service in the independent women's sector is no guarantee against the future as the British...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women in Spain: who cares?Ahead of the election all the political parties commented on the level of violence against women, but public concern...
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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: 50.50UN resolution 2242: gender, generation, and counter terrorism
Key issues that remain unresolved within the Women, Peace, and Security agenda include: the nature of gender, the...
