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Published in: 50.50Of mini-skirts and morals: social control in NigeriaThe push to police the way that women dress continues across Africa on the pretext that it causes sexual harassment...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism
It’s not an individualist but a collective feminism that we need, one that measures success not by how high a woman...
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Published in: 50.50‘Gays, Gods and Governments': homophobia in Uganda
The drama playing out in Kampala over the tabling of the Anti Homosexual Bill for its first reading in the Ugandan...
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Published in: HomeWomen, democracy and dictatorshipIn the early and middle decades of the twentieth century it was always Middle Eastern dictators who embarked on...
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Published in: 50.50Freedom 'to’ and freedom 'from’: rebalancing the tension in favour of gender equality
The various social contracts that are emerging between the State and the dominant religious right minority...
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Published in: 50.50What Iran wants from female religious authority: piety - yes, expertise in fiqh - no
More than a hundred women's seminaries have been set up by the Iranian state since the 1979 revolution. Yet the...
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Published in: 50.50Land grabs: the threat to African women’s livelihoods
Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in...
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Published in: 50.50Why the gender pay gap mattersWith so many families in Britain struggling in the face of the Coalition's austerity measures, wage inequalities...
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Published in: 50.50Why women are at the heart of Egypt’s political trials and tribulations
The Egyptian elections delivered a parliament that has one of the lowest rates of female representation in the...
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Published in: 50.50Unfair, unsafe and undignified: the treatment of women seeking asylum in the UKIn breach of the government's pledge to make the asylum system sensitive to the needs of women, officials are asking...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: performing in the margin, revolting in the centre"We are constantly aware of our gender and of being watched and judged because of it, so we end up "performing". But...
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Published in: 50.50Gender mainstreaming: the future of feminism? Or feminism’s disappearing act?Sylvia Walby’s ‘The Future of Feminism’ makes the case for gender mainstreaming as a successful mechanism for...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of belonging in Britain
'There is no opposite to belonging’: Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Jenny Allsopp on religion, migration and...
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Published in: 50.50Why migrant mothers die in childbirth in the UKMaternal mortality among black African women in the UK is up to seven times higher than it is among white women....
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Published in: HomeThe one sure way to reduce prostitution: heroin prescription
We are at a point in the drugs policy debate now where it is no longer heretical to critique conventional wisdom;...
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Published in: 50.50Has neoliberalism knocked feminism sideways?
Feminism needs to recapture the state from the neoliberal project to which it is in hock in order to make it deliver...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the new Libya: challenges ahead
Will the rights of the women, who participated in the struggles leading to fall of Gaddafi, be put under pressure in...
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Published in: 50.50Nigeria: women on the outskirts of politics
With only nine women senators representing 54 million women in Nigeria, international support should focus on the...
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Published in: 50.50The Occupy movement and the women of Greenham Common
Feminist experience and input into the theory and practice of nonviolence has much to offer a new generation of...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the code of silence
Storytelling, in itself, will neither eliminate sexual violence nor entirely heal PTSD. But it can help shift the...
