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Published in: 50.50The pragmatism of hopeHope may be a rare word in the discourse of realpolitik that frames much official discussion on conflict and...
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Published in: 50.50Professor Wangari Maathai speaksProfessor Maathai, noted activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, presents her message to the third international...
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Published in: 50.50No rubber stamping here
Anyone who's never been to a big feminist conference doesn't know what they're missing. It's not just the jokes that...
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Published in: 50.50We must not make war safe for women"We can not pluck rape out of war and let the war go on. We must not make war safe for women. It is time to abolish...
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Published in: 50.50Prevention is the cure“There is a reason that international institutions have been so slow to move on this agenda - it is because impunity...
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Published in: 50.50'Wounded warriors': sexual assault in the US military
Sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce commissioned Gallup to do a...
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Published in: 50.50Aung San Suu Kyi on sexual violence in conflict
Nobel Peace Laureate and honorary member of the Nobel Women's Initiative, Aung San Suu Kyi, sends her support to the...
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Published in: 50.50The mass crime of rape: ending impunity
A group of us gasped when one tiny mother of five, who looked no older than my 20-year old daughter, lamented, “When...
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Published in: 50.50Wounded warriors: sexual assault
The phenomenon of sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce...
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Published in: HomeBreaking the conspiracy of silence
"I was 12 years old.....my anguish ended when my family left Okinawa after this man had paid me $5 during our last...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women demand justice
The systematic use of sexual violence along with torture, cruel and degrading treatment – such as the common use of...
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Published in: 50.50Who do they think they are? War rapists as people
War is social, and examining soldier identity and male bonding may give us insight into how the incidence of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence and war: inevitable?
A key reason for the seeming ubiquity of sexual violence in war is not its inevitability, but the impunity...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence: the healing imperative
How far do our post-conflict reconstruction efforts go when it comes to addressing the trauma and loss that women...
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Published in: 50.50My right, my responsibility
Nairobi Women's Hospital treated more than 300 women who had been gang raped in the aftermath of the contested...
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Published in: HomeThe Arms Trade Treaty: why women?
It would not be possible to rape women in front of their communities and families, on such a large scale in much of...
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Published in: 50.50Redefining security: human rights and economic justice
Security is impossible without people’s freedom to organize and defend their rights, a cornerstone of the exercise...
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Published in: 50.50Women: redefining peace, democracy and security
From May 23-25, women activists and scholars from around the world will gather in Quebec at the invitation of the...
