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Published in: 50.50Backlash against Bangladeshi bloggersThe bloggers of Shahbagh are facing a backlash – hunted by fundamentalists, denounced in mosques as atheists,...
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Published in: 50.50Women and LGBT rights: the Achilles’ heel of Christian knights
The narrative of splits in Protestantism which is based on convenient binaries, with African and Asian churches...
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Published in: 50.50Double Bind: tied up in knots on the left
Instead of sanitizing the Muslim right as a way of fighting racism in the North, Meredith Tax argues that the left...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential
Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been...
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Published in: 50.50Taking a flawed stand against orientalism
In a response to openDemocracy's 'Citizenship after Orientalism' series, Rahila Gupta says there's no need to ditch...
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Published in: 50.50Code Pink, multiculturalism and relativism
The actions of Code Pink may be a natural consequence of the endorsement by many on the left and amongst feminists...
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Published in: 50.50The peace movement: debating alliances
Meredith Tax responds to Rebecca Johnson and Pam Bailey: a movement must ensure that its short term tactical aims...
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Published in: 50.50The issues that divide: building a diverse feminist movement
Recognition that identity politics had immobilised and fragmented the women's movement has driven the search for...
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Published in: HomeManchurian mormon?Mitt Romney needs to answers basic questions about potential conflicts between his religious vows and his...
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Published in: 50.50Symptoms of crisis? Religion and women’s rights in Israel
Women are being increasingly targeted as the accommodation between religious and secular Israelis crumbles,...
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Published in: 50.50We Are Fed Up! The power of a new generation of Sudanese youth activists
The recent protests in Sudan attest to the rise of a new generation of Sudanese youth activists. At the heart of...
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Published in: 50.50Undressing Um Ahmad: Egyptian women between the bikini and the burquaa'Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...
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Published in: 50.50أنا و أم أحمد و البيكينيلأول مرة في تاريخ مصر, ترتدي سيدتها الأولى الحجاب و كما أثار زوجها قلق الكثيرون حول مدنية الدولة, أثارت زوجته القلق...
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Published in: 50.50التحرش الجنسي في الشوارع: كسر حاجز الصمت في اليمنحوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات في مجال حقوق النساء...
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Published in: 50.50Street sexual harassment: breaking the silence in YemenYoung women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance
For the last month, #SudanRevolt has gripped Sudan. Last Friday, the protests brought the central role of women in...
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Published in: oDRChechnya’s fashion dictatorIn Chechnya, the warfare that rumbled on between 1994 and 2009 has been turned against the republic’s women. The...
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Published in: 50.50Accepted mishaps? Faith healing, HIV and AIDS responses
As the 2012 International AIDS Conference gathers to review “the science”, Jessica Horn examines the powerful role...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion access in the US military – time for the MARCH Act
A Congressional bill has been proposed that will finally repeal the severe restrictions on American servicewomen’s...
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Published in: 50.50Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring'
The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted...
