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Published in: 50.50There are more women at Sri Lanka’s universities – but they remain spaces dominated by menNow is not the time for complacency. Universities should produce critical thinkers – and questioning gendered norms...
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Published in: 50.50Copts of Egypt: Pope Francis, Al-Azhar, and the reality of sectarianism on the groundThe Pope’s meeting with Al-Azhar this week may create goodwill at a high-level, but on the ground, the situation for...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rightsThe international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and...
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Published in: 50.50Copts of Egypt: from survivors of sectarian violence to targets of terrorismRecent bombings mark a new era in the religious targeting of Copts – one which is qualitatively different from...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and fundamentalism: when religion muscles in on developmentThe truism that there cannot be real development without women’s participation needs a caveat: women’s rights cannot...
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Published in: 50.50'Faith and family': shrinking common ground at the UN CSWThe Worldwide Organization for Women took a hard line against all forms of comprehensive sexual education, often...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from Syria on women's empowerment during conflictSyrian women will be the pillars of any future democratic process. Their efforts deserve support from national and...
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Published in: 50.50The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing...
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Published in: 50.50Are we all beheaded Copts?Is the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya associated with a broader political project of cleansing...
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Published in: 50.50A move to set free child sex abusers: in the name of “our culture”Recent law reform initiatives on sexual crimes against children in Turkey reveal the growing danger for women and...
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Published in: 50.50What will it take to end honour based violence in the UK?‘Honour killings’ represent the tragic consequences of the failure to tackle honour based violence. Greater state...
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Published in: 50.50Erdogan's war on womenKurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from...
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Published in: 50.50One woman’s brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"“My daughter and I appeared before the Sharia court at Regent's Park mosque in London. They were not interested in...
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Published in: 50.50Táhirih unveiled: poet, theologian and revolutionaryTáhirih – an important figure in Persian history – helps us imagine a more diverse feminism and a more progressive...
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Published in: 50.50Resurgent Sikh fundamentalism in the UK: time to act?Growing confidence among resurgent Sikh fundamentalist networks in the UK was evident in recent protests against...
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Published in: 50.50Repeal the Eighth: putting intersectionality into practiceA long-established conservative media frames the terms of abortion politics in Ireland. The pro-choice activism...
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Published in: 50.50What has Hindu law ever done for women?India’s long overdue Uniform Civil Code, a set of common personal laws for all citizens, guaranteed by its...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: depression or oppression?Women continuing to push for change in Egypt are bearing the psychological toll of a rigid post-revolution politics...
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Published in: 50.50The dishonourable killing of a Pakistani social media celebrityQandeel Baloch’s murder fuelled the debate over women’s sexuality, their lives, and their deaths. Her ‘honour’...
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Published in: 50.50Sharia, security and the church: dangers of the British Home Office InquiryDoes the UK’s Sharia Review resemble the sharia ‘courts’: secretive procedures and discriminatory advisors? Are the...
