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Published in: 50.50How will President Trump’s administration affect women and girls across the world?Alongside this year’s UN CSW, we asked women doing gender work across the globe how US President Donald Trump’s...
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Published in: 50.50'Faith and family': shrinking common ground at the UN CSWThe Worldwide Organization for Women took a hard line against all forms of comprehensive sexual education, often...
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Published in: 50.50The new UN secretary general is poised to show the world what a feminist looks likeThere has been real progress at this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the new Secretary General has...
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Published in: 50.50Who runs the world? Girls! Not at the UN CSWAt this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women, the empowerment of girls is getting more attention than ever...
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Published in: 50.50Without global solidarity the women’s movement will collapseBorders are closing across the world, blocking women from the Global South both from seeking refuge, having a voice...
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Published in: 50.50PR, profit and ‘empowering women’ in the garment industryHow can a global garment value chain that relies on the systemic devaluation of female labour be expected to fulfil...
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Published in: 50.50Queer and trans issues are sidelined again at the United Nations CSWThe language of sexual orientation and gender identity remains absent from the draft conclusions of the Commission...
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Published in: 50.50Indigenous women brave the storm to begin talks at UN CSWDespite the winter storm that shut down other events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the event on...
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Published in: 50.50No borders on gender justiceAs the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) takes place in New York, gender justice advocates from around the...
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Published in: 50.50Standing our ground at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)When civic space is under attack, we make no dangerous accommodations. We stand up, and we fight back.
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Published in: 50.50Trump's slap in the face of Lady LibertyWill women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: debating women’s reproductive rights or a “culture of death” ?In a cynical ploy, conservative religious groups based in the Global North now frame reproductive rights advocacy in...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: still failing to count all womenWhen will the CSW agree that without counting everyone, transwomen, lesbians and bisexuals included, gender equality...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: ending impunity for gender-based crimes against women refugeesThe CSW has called on UN member states to "address sexual and gender-based violence as an integral and prioritized...
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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: 50.50UN CSW: the way to empower women is to use CEDAW Article 5, not the CSW
The most effective international mechanism to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment is not the cumbersome...
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Published in: 50.50Berta’s struggle is our global struggle…Berta Cáceres’s assassination is a painful reminder of the way in which a trinity of corporate, government and...
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Published in: 50.50CSW: groundbreaking US support for sexual rights
With the 60th UN Commission on the Status of Women underway in New York, the decision by the US to support sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Lives of endurance: sanitizing crime against girls
How much longer will it take the global community to recognise the human dignity and worth of the girl child, and...
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Published in: 50.50Awake to the challenge: African women's leadership at Beijing+20
If you randomly pick a person on the street in a remote part of any African country and ask them what they know...
