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Published in: 50.50Why UK trans rights debates are so frustrating, but I won’t give up hopeProposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act have led to a vile backlash in the media. But we all deserve freedom
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Published in: 50.50Christian Right and some UK feminists ‘unlikely allies’ against trans rightsNew analysis shows that groups that traditionally disagree are now on the same side – against reforming the Gender...
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Published in: 50.50Romanians didn’t show up to an anti-LGBT referendum. But the battle for equality continuesA vote to make legalising equal marriage even harder was defeated this weekend. It’s a victory for progressive...
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Published in: 50.50‘Sexual liberation, socialist style’: an overlooked women’s rights story?New research by Kateřina Lišková places eastern bloc countries at the forefront of the 20th-century push for gender equality
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Published in: 50.5028 abortion rights successes in 2018For International Safe Abortion Day, on 28 September, we are celebrating 28 aspects of progress and success we’ve...
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Published in: 50.50These women are demanding their rights from inside Rome’s occupied buildingsPrecarious labour and housing conditions have pushed many to squat Rome’s empty buildings, living in fear of...
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Published in: 50.50Will the new crimes against humanity treaty protect women and LGBTI persons?It’s time for the international community to take a stand. A new treaty could affect people’s rights for generations to come.
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Published in: 50.50We simply said ‘enough’: the story of Spain’s ‘Las Kellys’ hotel cleanersFrom gruelling working conditions to more limited access to healthcare, austerity policies have hit women hardest....
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Published in: 50.50‘This story rarely gets told’: 10 years of women’s resistance to austerity across EuropeFrom the UK to Greece, women have been hit hardest by austerity policies since the 2008 financial crisis. This...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 4: The men’s rights movement50.50 attended an international gathering of men’s rights activists in London and spoke to some of the men, and...
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Published in: 50.50Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of historyFrom Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
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Published in: 50.50Can a male-dominated legal industry achieve meaningful reforms for women?Despite shocking accounts of harassment and discrimination within their profession, women lawyers in Zimbabwe and...
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Published in: 50.50When will a woman lead Zimbabwe?Despite repeated pledges to promote gender parity in politics, women are dramatically underrepresented among...
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Published in: 50.50To end violence against women we must tackle patriarchy – and povertyViolence against women is perpetrated in order to sustain patriarchal power relations. Projects to prevent violence,...
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Published in: 50.50Finding ‘Yo Real’: fighting machismo in Mexico CityMachismo is widespread in Mexico. One organisation takes aim at ‘negative masculinities’ with weekly group classes. Español
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Published in: 50.50Italy’s new government is bad news for women and minoritiesThere will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families...
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Published in: 50.50The crisis in trans healthcare in the UK killed my daughter SynestraA new book, Transition Denied, exposes 'system failures' to protect vulnerable trans teenagers in Britain. This...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 3: Why we need feminist investigative journalismAt the 2018 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, 50.50 organised a panel on feminist investigative...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist journalists must document structural violence against women – with investigations from belowAny feminist anti-racist reporting project must work to dismantle received ideas of how and whose stories should be...
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Published in: 50.50‘Nice Irish girls don’t have sex’ is the old idea at the heart of historic abortion rights battleEven if abortion is legalised in Ireland, this mindset must be challenged if women are to fully access their...
