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Published in: 50.50Brazil: "state feminism" at workHow far can the flourishing "participatory state feminism" in Brazil expand into the state apparatus in order to...
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Published in: 50.50Peace movements: violence reduction as common sense
If one thing holds the overall movement of peace movements together it is the goal of violence reduction. There’s a...
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Published in: 50.50La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming care as a fundamental end in itself
In the global context of economic insecurity and emerging 'care crises', there is a real risk that the development...
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Published in: 50.50Sénégal: la terre à ceux qui la travaillent
Plus d’un quart de siècle de conflit armé, un tissu socio-économique complètement déstructuré, mais les femmes de...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico: the war on drugs is becoming a war on women
Women human rights defenders in Mexico are increasingly targeted, often by government forces, since drug war...
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Published in: 50.50The "Turkish model" : for whom?
In the aftermath of the Arab spring the “Turkish model” is being held out as an optimistic scenario for...
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Published in: 50.50"We are not women, we are Egyptians": spaces of protest and representation
A focus on the spaces where women asserted their public presence in the Egyptian revolution reveals a great deal...
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Published in: 50.50The sources of global homophobia
Activists and politicians working for the human rights of LGBT people must study the history which underlies the...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and destitution in the UK
The real migration scandal in the UK are the people forced to live without any recourse to public funds. Migrant...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism is funnyArtist Sarah Maple’s new exhibition places feminism firmly at the centre of its work, using comedy to explore 21st...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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Published in: 50.50La transformation des vies au Burundi : « maintenant je ne suis plus battue »Les femmes au Burundi ont pu obtenir des modifications radicales du Code pénal, faisant du viol une infraction...
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Published in: 50.50Changing lives in Burundi: "Now I am no longer beaten"Women in Burundi have won radical changes to the country's Penal Code, making rape punishable by life imprisonment....
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Published in: 50.50Contraception: the new American soap opera
The war over contraception in America during the last bizarre month was never about religious freedom or women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Faith: know thy placeThe feminist critique of religion should not appease the strident voices which label secularism as fundamentalist or...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating the Arab spring from within
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...
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Published in: 50.50The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen'
Governments are constructing social policy based on misrepresentations and stereotypes about poor people and welfare...
