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Published in: 50.50Hope, pain and patience: HIV and sex workersA year after the UN adopted a declaration in which member states committed to creating “enabling legal, social and...
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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: 50.50Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim family laws
Why and how did verse 4:34, and not other verses in the Qur’an, become the foundation for the legal construction of...
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Published in: 50.50The hijab or the bikini: the shaping of young girls’ sexuality
Where the line will be drawn between childrens' rights and parents’ rights will always be heavily contested. Issues...
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Published in: 50.50"We are not women, we are Egyptians": spaces of protest and representation
A focus on the spaces where women asserted their public presence in the Egyptian revolution reveals a great deal...
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Published in: 50.50The sources of global homophobia
Activists and politicians working for the human rights of LGBT people must study the history which underlies the...
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Published in: 50.50‘Gays, Gods and Governments': homophobia in Uganda
The drama playing out in Kampala over the tabling of the Anti Homosexual Bill for its first reading in the Ugandan...
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Published in: HomeCelebrate plurality
The Rt. Rev. Dr David Zac Niringiye, bishop of of All Saints Cathedral in Kampala, talks to Ute Seela about...
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Published in: 50.50Bridging the academic-activist gapCollaboration between academics and activists is essential to the promotion of pluralism in practice.
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Published in: 50.50An unfortunate accident: violence in Ahmadinejad’s Iran
In the wake of the contested Iranian election, Ahmadinejad's regime is seeking to silence political dissent through...
