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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThe Republican Party is still in thrall to Trumpism, with or without DonaldOPINION: There are no moderate Republican presidential candidates, as this year’s CPAC conference shows
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSustainable Development Goals in the UK: Not as rosy as the Government wants you to believeThe UK government is due to report to the UN on progress on addressing UK poverty, hunger, inequality. human rights...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDo men have the exclusive right to interpret the Qur’an?In the millennium and a half since Islam’s advent, only men, and only Arab, or Arabic-speaking men, have interpreted...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#ElectionsSpain2019: Populist radicalisation, Catalonia, and the far-rightSpain is the epitome of political instability, with a 5 party fragmentation and the impossibility of appeasing...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaNicolás Maduro: immolation or evictionThere is something Maduro is right about: Venezuela is part of a higher objective for the most illiberal sectors in...
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Published in: HomeThe wall isn’t a state of emergency but a state of exceptionThe German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a...
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Published in: 50.50There’s a backlash against sex education in ‘Feminist Canada’Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian Right, Ontario’s premier...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFirst they came for the ‘bad hombres’ … but the North Carolina sheriffs are speaking outAs NC immigrant arrests climb to 230 ICE announces the “New Normal” declaring how, where and why the people...
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Published in: 50.50‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countriesCases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality
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Published in: 50.50Alleged army rapes amidst Zimbabwe fuel hike protests go uninvestigatedWhen Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are...
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Published in: 50.50‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Open letter to the women of the world from Leyla Güven"All the women of the world need to be saying enough to fascism, enough to dictatorship!"
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Published in: 50.50How Verona became a ‘model city’ for far-Right and ultra-Catholic alliancesFar-Right and religious conservative movements captured the ‘city of love’ years ago. After national successes,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?VOX and the Spanish Muslim community: the new “Reconquista” of SpainThis kind of explicit attack, unfortunately familiar in the wider European context we belong to, is something very...
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Published in: 50.50“We create space for freedom”: battling sexism in Ukraine’s mediaGender stereotypes are widespread in the Ukrainian media. I talked to activist Oleksandra Golub about campaigns to...
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Published in: 50.50Men in Europe must stop blaming migrants for ‘importing’ gender violenceFrom Germany to India, these campaigners are battling ‘toxic masculinity’ to engage men in fights for gender equality.
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Published in: HomeLeaving the white nationalist movement with Derek BlackWe talk to Derek about what catalysed this change, if others are likely to follow in his footsteps and the role...
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Published in: openIndiaSowing division: caste is crucial in Indian electionsOf course, politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit this fault-line,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#EleccionesAbiertas2018: Earthquake in Brazil and Mexico, tremors in ColombiaThe presidential elections in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil were carried out in a context of polarisation and...
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Published in: 50.50After Me Too, can we trust the UK government to tackle sexual abuse?If our lawmakers fail to confront abuse in their own workplace, how do we trust them to enact effective policies for...
