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Published in: 50.50Our Lives: Poverty then and now in the UKA report launched today, Our Lives: Challenging attitudes to poverty in 2015, captures the humanity of the...
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Published in: 50.50Ending the humiliation of women in Northern Ireland
Women demanding democratic participation in Northern Ireland's peace process are using human rights principles to...
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Published in: 50.50Labour, life and love: Marxist feminists join the dotsLast weekend two generations of international feminists met at a conference in Berlin designed to prompt fresh...
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Published in: 50.50Lives of endurance: sanitizing crime against girls
How much longer will it take the global community to recognise the human dignity and worth of the girl child, and...
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Published in: 50.50Disposable GirlsThe fight to protect the world's girls, whether from sexual exploitation or abduction, is not about saving...
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Published in: 50.50Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? Women and work post-crash
The value of women’s unpaid and undervalued work is slowly beginning to be appreciated: the time is right for a...
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Published in: 50.50The world's girls: no voice, no rightsHow can we address the global threat to women's rights with no space for girls’ - or even women’s - voices at the...
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Published in: 50.50Trapped: women fleeing violence in the UKThe raft of cuts affecting the women's sector, and election promises made by Labour and the Conservatives not to...
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Published in: 50.50The cuts hit home: austerity in Oxford
Across the UK different services are bearing the brunt of cuts in different areas. In Oxfordshire, the county which...
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Published in: 50.50Women in prison: the cycle of violence
Most women in prison in Britain have experienced sexual or domestic violence, yet the system fails to address their...
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Published in: 50.50Responding to sexual abuse in the UK: class, race and culture
The failure of police to take seriously the young victims of sexual abuse in Rotherham who reported the crime,...
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Published in: 50.50The Handmaid's Tale of El SalvadorPoverty, misogyny, and Christian fundamentalism in El Salvador lie behind the prison sentences of up to forty years...
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Published in: 50.50Why the G20 needs to tackle gender inequality: Brisbane and beyond
The G20 should listen to Oxfam and assess its agenda and actions based on how they support the fulfilment of women’s...
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Published in: 50.50G20: the union movement's fight for gender equality in the labour market
Women are more reliant on decent labour law, minimum wages and conditions, and labour market protections. Yet these...
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Published in: 50.50G20: can women's human rights and economic growth co-exist?Will the G20 adopt an approach that meets human rights standards for economic growth at the Brisbane Summit? More...
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Published in: 50.50Gender at the G20If the G20 is serious about 'sustainable and balanced growth' as the 'premier forum for international economic...
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Published in: 50.50State racism and sexism in post-war Sri Lanka
Central to the resurgence of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism in post-war Sri Lanka is a redefinition of gender role and...
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Published in: 50.50The human costs of 'fast-fashion': the power to change is in your hands
A living wage is a human right, and it is crucial that consumers are fully aware of the power in their hands. We’ll...
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Published in: 50.50Power and solidarity at the grassrootsIn an age of professionalization, both of politicians and of activists, the journey of self-taught politicization of...
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Published in: 50.50Redecorate, repopulate: what next for the E15 mums?A group of young mothers have petitioned local government and occupied abandoned homes in Newham, London, calling...
