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Published in: 50.50Tanzanian pastoralist women: HIV and health rightsVertical health service provision alone will not solve the gender-based violence and HIV challenges facing...
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Published in: 50.50Nepali widows: changing colours, changing mindsetsThe growing widows’ movement in Nepal is winning rights for single and widowed women, and challenging the...
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Published in: 50.50Transnational marriage abandonment: A new form of violence against women?Transnational marriage abandonment lies at the intersect of immigration and patriarchal control, allowing abusers...
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Published in: 50.50Women beedi rollers and necrocapitalism in Sri LankaWomen in one village in the Jaffna district of northern Sri Lanka have been rolling beedi with their bare hands for...
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Published in: 50.50Georgian migrant mothers: never to return home?Older women migrants are locked into perpetual domestic work in New York, endlessly deferring retirement and...
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Published in: 50.50From colonials to corporates: maternal mortality in Assam’s tea gardensFor the women employed in the tea gardens of Assam, pregnancy is a life-threatening ordeal. An interactive...
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Published in: 50.50Does the caste system really not exist in Bengal?Bengali middle class society is seen as casteless because caste violence lacks visibility. One woman’s story of...
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Published in: 50.50Legumes vs. labour rights: how Indian women pay for the cost of dalA cooking project in Asia’s biggest informal settlement brings into focus the millions of workers denied a share in...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: the way to empower women is to use CEDAW Article 5, not the CSWThe most effective international mechanism to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment is not the cumbersome...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking liberation, seeking comfort: women migrants in the UKThe UK Home Office continues to indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, including pregnant women....
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Published in: 50.50The confinement of Eve: resolving Ebola, Zika and HIV with women’s bodies?There are parallels between three major newsworthy viruses, Ebola, HIV and Zika, in relation to the global public...
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Published in: 50.50COP21: overarching narratives, real lives“There are overarching narratives, and then there are people just trying to live their lives within them.” Does...
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Published in: 50.50Defending land and community: women on the frontlines of climate justiceThroughout Southeast Asia, hundreds of women environmental activists have been jailed, attacked and defamed as...
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Published in: 50.5016 Days: cutting Black and minority ethnic women's organisationsThe EU Victims Directive comes into force this month. Will it prevent the further decimation of Black and minority...
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Published in: 50.5016 Days: asset stripping the women’s sector in the UKThe quality of service in the independent women's sector is no guarantee against the future as the British...
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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: 50.50Ghana: women at war in a country at peaceThe absence of war does not necessarily imply peace for women. The binary opposites of war and peace obscure the...
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Published in: 50.50Sea change for gender equity in Canada: great smoke, how much fire?Justin Trudeau has pledged to open a national inquiry into the staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women...
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Published in: 50.50Mapping women's resistance to social and ecological degradationWomen coming together to cross pollinate ideas and build understanding about differing burdens, responsibilities,...
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn and women: a matter of policy not appointmentMedia responses have pointed to the lack of women in the new shadow cabinet, but the policy response to austerity...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
