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Published in: 50.50Zero tolerance or zero consequence?Laudable yet formalistic plans, committees and laws have been put in place to address violence against women, yet...
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Published in: 50.50Guns: the unending cycle of violence
The words of the women paralleled each other as they described how armed violence in the home and community, armed...
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Published in: 50.50Putting money where our mouths areLyric Thompson, in her last report from New York, writes that as we close the 54th UN Commission on the Status of...
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Published in: 50.50Haven't we said so already?If the actions recommended by the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on Equality, Development and Peace were honoured,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRace, human rights and religion: the UK's Jewish free school decision
How is it that the President of Britain's new Supreme Court has been quoting the Book of Deuteronomy in reaching an...
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Published in: HomeKeeping hope alive in New YorkWill the government representatives at the CSW remember their commitments when they are back in their home...
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Published in: oDRWomen’s day makes a lot of cents
On Women’s Day in Russia you really get to see what your price tag is
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Published in: 50.50Negotiating Bliss
The bliss of an egalitarian and just relationship between spouses cannot be achieved through a sheet of paper. But...
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Published in: 50.50An uncomfortable truth: the gender turf war at UN CSWLyric Thompson takes issue with those who argue that men are inherently unqualified to speak as advocates for...
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Published in: 50.50The price of peace“Peace processes are bad men talking to bad government and other bad men.....women in civil society are doing...
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Published in: 50.50This is my witnessThe human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma.
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Published in: 50.50Burma may save its tigers and not its women
Cora Weiss reports on the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma - an overwhelming day of stories...
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Published in: 50.50Defining the new American gender agendaThere has been much debate both within Washington and without as to what the new American gender agenda will be....
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Published in: 50.50Disillusionment, Anger and Protest.At this Tuesday morning’s NGO consultation we women from the NGOs, attempting to participate in the 54th CSW,...
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Published in: 50.50The mother of all widowsSo yesterday CSW formally opened and we NGOs, thousands of us,queue, crowd, jostle to get a seat either in the...
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Published in: 50.50Bring them into the daylightThe session on Sexual and Reproductive Health rights in Africa, held by the Amanitare Sexual Rights Network opened...
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Published in: 50.50A reception with HarrietMinister for Women Harriet Harman visits the CSW for the first time - holding promise for the UK's commitment to the...
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Published in: 50.50Becoming a feminist15 years ago, I was a school girl with no awareness that Beijing was happening, but plenty of awareness of sexism....
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Published in: 50.50Widowhood: invisible for how much longer?Margaret Owen has been trying to get the CSW to address the poverty of widows for 12 years. This is her last...
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Published in: 50.50My Beijing diaryJane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith was a member of the UK delegation to Beijing in 1995, extracts from her diary capture the...
