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Published in: 50.50Is gender a universal category? The double edged sword of identity politics.Jameen Kaur reports on the three day conference on ‘Women Deepening Democracy: Transforming Gender Equality. From...
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Published in: 50.50Deepening democracy by building gender equality
The conference on 'Women deepening democracy' held in New Delhi last week examined what can be done to tackle the...
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Published in: Shine A LightRoll calls, body searches and sex games
What Parliament isn’t being told about children’s lives inside a UK detention centre.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKElitism, Philistinism and Populism: the sorry tale of British Higher Education Policy
It can hardly be a coincidence: a key government adviser proposing a massive rise in university fees just as the...
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Published in: 50.50Making human rights for women a reality
There has been a critical shift from CEDAW being an aspirational international document, to its gender equality...
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Published in: HomeThe last refuge of prejudice
Discounting the interests of future people is the one remaining prejudice
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Published in: 50.50The wedding dress with attitudeMalians do a good line in combining fashion and public relations for the causes they care about. Fatoumata and...
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Published in: 50.50The human cost of warDiana Francis finds in an exhibition of quilts and arpilleras made by women from Ireland to Chile, a rallying call...
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Published in: 50.50Domestic violence is not a private family matter
In the pioneering ruling Opuz v Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights recognized for the first time that...
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Published in: 50.50The power of storytelling
Zainab Magdy describes her journey as a young feminist writer in a storytelling workshop in Cairo. “Many people ask...
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Published in: 50.50Jack in a Box
He liked playing with the Jack in a Box more than any other toy. It had been his favourite since childhood, and he...
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Published in: 50.50Owner of a Heart
Once upon a time, in a place far far away and a time that was neither happy nor glorious in a small town, there was...
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Published in: 50.50Meeri Piribis: carrying the torch of hope
“No more will we let the army decide, the insurgents decide, or the patriarchal structures of our societies that...
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Published in: openIndiaHonour killing: India's continuing shameThe number of love marriages might have increased in India's cities but the reality remains different in many of its villages
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Published in: 50.50When things fall apart
Alice Welbourn charts her own personal experiences of what she learnt about HIV, about herself and about others...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: both the cause and the consequence of violence against women
In the UK the number of women living with HIV has been steadily growing since the beginning of the epidemic. Newly...
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Published in: 50.50The challenges for women of HIV and gender violence
The hinterland of acknowledging and dealing with the links between gender violence and HIV/AIDS is mostly unexplored...
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Published in: 50.50Nameless, Genderless: The Meena Bazaar Women
What prevents politicians from discussing national security issues and violence against women in the same sentence?...
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Published in: 50.50“We have failed. We have nothing to celebrate”
There is a growing wave of unrest among young women at the failure of governments to recognise and implement...
