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Published in: 50.50After the fast track: what next for the detention of asylum seekers?UK courts have ruled the routine detention of asylum seekers undergoing accelerated claims to be ‘systemically...
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Published in: 50.50Nepal: the struggle for equal citizenship rights for womenNepal's new constitution was widely celebrated as progressive, but restrictions on a woman's right to pass on...
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Published in: 50.50The aid crisis for Syrian refugeesAs the war is prolonged, families are exhausting their savings. Without a massive re-thinking of how aid is...
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Published in: 50.50Philosophies of migrationMigration raises more fundamental questions than 'should these people be here': it probes into the very essence of...
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Published in: 50.50Separate and isolated: women and cuts to English language classesTwo thirds of English for speakers of other languages students are women, yet the British government is slashing...
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Published in: 50.50Pragna Patel: a politics of hope and not hate
"At the heart of my work is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist...
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Published in: 50.50Women's paid and unpaid work, and the colonial hangoverAt the International Association for Feminist Economics conference, social scientists, researchers and economists...
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Published in: 50.50Why are so many Syrian children being left stateless?
Syrian women advocates recognize the links between the crisis of statelessness and the lack of reproductive justice...
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Published in: 50.50Migrant women in the UK: settling for rather than settling inWomen with a high level of educational qualifications who migrate to the UK to join their British husbands are...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict widows: agents of change and peacebuilding
The rise of religious fundamentalism and conflict is diminishing widows to the status of a chattel. Their key role...
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Published in: 50.50UK border agents in the house of GodImmigration officers are now being placed in religious institutions. It may not be too farfetched to ask: how long...
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Published in: 50.50"To meet nothing that wants you": violence against migrants
As anti-migrant sentiment increases around the world and the law is increasingly used to protect the interests of...
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Published in: 50.50Lampedusa: Never againThe terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in...
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Published in: 50.50Hidden women human rights defenders in the UKWithout recognising the work of women who seek to protect human rights domestically, the UK government risks seeing...
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Published in: 50.50"I am one of those foreigners": living with HIV in the UK
HIV is easily treatable with pills. But there are no pills for stigma. Stigma grows on the ignorance behind the...
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Published in: 50.50Immigration and the UK General Election: reclaiming the agenda for allWhen we ask our parliamentary candidates whether their policies are good for women, we must ask whether they are...
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Published in: Shine A LightYarl’s Wood: legal black hole
Women in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have become increasingly desperate as repeated rounds of legal aid...
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Published in: 50.50Immigration detention: "expensive, ineffective and unjust"
The first ever parliamentary inquiry into the use of immigration detention in the UK has published its report today....
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Published in: Shine A LightDeath at Yarl’s Wood: Women in mourning, women in fearAbuse at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre is finally mainstream news. When a woman died at Yarl’s Wood in...
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Published in: 50.50Women seeking asylum: closing the protection gapGlobally the British government is pushing for better protections for women, yet the same protections are...
