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Published in: 50.50Women of Senegal: agents of peaceThe physical and moral suffering undergone by the valiant people of Casamance is incalculable and, as usual, it is...
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Published in: 50.50“Kind sirs, stop beating your wives!”Day-to-day, Chadian women are beaten, humiliated and crushed beneath the weight of traditions. However, women were...
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Published in: 50.50Chers messieurs, arrêtez de battre vos femmes!
Quotidiennement les femmes tchadiennes sont battues, humiliées et écrasées sous le poids de traditions. Pourtant la...
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Published in: 50.50The bleak mid-winter of the Coalition - let's see some heat
As huge swathes of Britain are beggared and left bewildered by the upheavals and moralising that we have already...
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Published in: 50.50Kenya: the women who stand to be counted
Women in Kenya's second largest slum, Korogocho, face forced evictions, domestic violence and rape as a weapon of...
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Published in: 50.50When nowhere is safe
No woman, no matter what her immigration status, should have to choose between violence in her country and violence...
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Published in: 50.50Driving women out of the workforce
Pregnant women in the UK are reporting blatant cases of unfair – and unlawful – treatment. Basic health and safety...
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Published in: 50.50India: breaking the supply chain of human beings
There are more than one million prostituted girls in India. "Only when the buyers of sex are arrested will the...
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Published in: 50.50Human Luggage: lives of neo-bondage and servitude
New immigration rules in the UK enforce the power of abusive employers over migrant domestic workers. It is a lack...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking asylum, ending destitution
If "destitutes" across the UK can stand up and act together we can make a difference: we are ready to meet the...
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Published in: 50.50La faim et le patriarcat au CamerounLes femmes de la région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun sont confrontées à une combinaison difficile de violence et de...
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Published in: 50.50Where have all the jobs gone?Jobs are disappearing in the UK, wages are dropping, and there is a shocking absence of political debate about the...
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Published in: 50.50Hunger and patriarchy in CameroonWomen in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon face a brutal nexus of violence and hunger. As long as women remain...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism: co-opting women’s voicesFeminism is being used by some states as a political proxy to gloss over economic policies that hurt women,...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the UK: back to the future
Britain’s Olympic summer is over and now it’s back to reality. Marion Bowman looks at how a ground-breaking play on...
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Published in: 50.50Wasted lives: why do Chadian women still die in childbirth?
Government attempts to reduce the excruciatingly high maternal mortality and stillbirth rates in Chad are failing....
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Published in: 50.50Vies gâchées : Pourquoi les tchadiennes meurent-elles encore en couche?
Les efforts déployés par le gouvernement pour réduire les taux catastrophiquement élevés de mortalité maternelle et...
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Published in: 50.50How women are paying for the recession in the UK
It was predictable and in fact predicted. The British Government’s austerity programme has turned back the clock on...
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Published in: 50.50Agency within Ethiopian sex work: withstanding violence
Beyond the simplistic dichotomies within western feminism on the nature of sex work there is a complex picture in...
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Published in: 50.50Staying alive in Britain : can the poor afford it?
As the number of families in Britain with at least one working parent fall below the poverty threshold and 'payday...
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