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Published in: 50.50The next UN Secretary-General: administrator, figurehead, or leader?Public interviews for the job of the next UN Secretary-General are continuing in New York. Female candidates are...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: how deep is the change?Is optimism in the future of revolutionary change misplaced in a region torn apart by war and a society where...
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Published in: 50.50For domestic abuse survivors, Kosovo’s justice system can be fatalProponents of family values preach respect for mothers, but expect those same mothers to simply endure abuse within...
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Published in: 50.50Rojava revolution: on the hoofRojava is a fast moving, dynamic place where things change by the minute. What are the material conditions which...
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Published in: 50.50Furthering freedom of religion and belief in Muslim-majority countriesBallot boxes before a culture of toleration for diversity of beliefs takes root in the minds of people can make...
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Published in: 50.50From Pondi to Paris: Pondicherry's marriage marketMarriages between Pondicherrians who took French nationality in 1962, and those who chose to remain Indian, reveals...
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Published in: 50.50What is driving the increase in child marriage in Bangladesh?Human rights activists in Bangladesh say that if draft legislation being considered by the government is passed it...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: engaging men and boys in ending violence against women as allies not protectorsWithout a feminist lens, the expanding efforts to work with men and boys to promote gender justice are often...
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Published in: 50.50A woman’s place? The British House of CommonsThe House of Commons exists to represent the people, yet the history of what constitutes ‘people’ has enshrined it...
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Published in: 50.50Cuba: through her eyesWhat do Cuban women imagine for their country’s future? In the wake of recent reforms, Cyd Bernstein talks to four...
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Published in: 50.50Mona Eltahawy and sexual revolution in the Middle East'Traumatised into feminism,' Mona Eltahawy speaks of her decision to unveil and understanding that 'Muslim women’s...
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Published in: 50.50A brand of manliness that is bad for the worldWhile women’s movements fight for empowerment, what is now destroying men is, paradoxically, the expectation to be...
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Published in: 50.50Global Femicide WatchDubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, explains to Yakin Erturk why she is calling...
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Published in: 50.50International Rights of Nature Tribunal: Pachamama vs ‘macho papas’Parallel to COP21, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal convened in Paris. The ‘climate crimes’ it heard were...
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Published in: 50.50Are children sacrificed in the interests of an abusive father's right of access?Spanish law recognises children as direct victims of gender violence, but an abusive father's right of access on...
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Published in: 50.50The Day You Catch the Fish: speaking out on domestic abuseViolence is manifested in so many ways, yet it is always the violence that comes within the domestic space that...
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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: 50.50Violence against women in Spain: who cares?Ahead of the election all the political parties commented on the level of violence against women, but public concern...
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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: 50.50The end of China’s one child policy: the right to reproduce and the right to live wellChina's one-child policy fundamentally changed the most intimate aspects of Chinese lives. It's removal last month...
