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Published in: 50.50Challenging ourselves at Beijing +15Sunila Abeysekera lists the achievements of Beijing’95, and argues now that the priority for women’s movements...
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Published in: 50.50Equality between women and men is not a ‘women’s issue’As the 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review action on the promises made in Beijing’95, will the...
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Published in: HomeToo many refugees, too little waterA photo essay on water problems in Eastern Chad
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformationAs Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50Vital peace constituencies
The last decade has seen much more detailed attention to the many, sometimes contradictory, roles women play in...
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Published in: 50.50Thinly veiled misogynyAs French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to drive through a ban on the niqab and burqa, Laurie Penny describes...
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Published in: 50.50Guinea-Conakry: the price of political rape
The transition to democracy in Guinea-Conakry is both a lesson and a warning to those who would wield rape as an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMarriage's lost benefits: tax credits and election promisesBritish conservatives claim that the tax system penalises marriage and that this is responsible for social break...
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Published in: openEconomyRadical Homemakers
Rediscovering and reshaping a world in which husbands were house-bound and families were free, what are the skills...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs there racial segregation in Britain's towns?Charlie Baker, who has worked for regeneration cooperative URBED in cities across northern England, looks at the...
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Published in: HomeSchools and sex abuse in Sierra LeoneHumu Tavawallie went to school for an education, but was forced into sex with her teacher to pay for her exams. This...
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Published in: 50.50Meeting in monochrome: women and the Afghanistan conference
The picture said it all; an expanse of suits broken only by Hillary's blonde bob floating in their midst. The London...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGutted: council staff wreck council flatsKatharine Hibbert recalls her experiences living in a London squat: councils trashing vacant flats, all to prevent...
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Published in: 50.50Negotiating with the Taliban: the view from below
While the only official woman delegate in the Afghan mission to the London Conference pleaded that women’s rights...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"I'm not a racist, but..."
Isn’t class-prejudice and anti-foreigner-prejudice just as bad as race-prejudice?
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Published in: openIndiaEurope's bitter pill for India will cost livesThe EU's trade negotiations with India bring back memories of colonial exploitation
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPublic finances and personal freedoms
Public authorities must respect human rights irrespective of the state of their balance sheets, writes John Wooding
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Published in: openEconomyKnowledge work is more democratic
Industrial policy aimed at promoting knowledge work should be welcomed because of the particular nature of the work:...
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Published in: openEconomyWhy social transformation is not a job for the market
Michael Edwards introduces his new book, "Small change, Why business won't change the world"
