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Published in: 50.50Lifting the ban on women’s shelters in Iraq: promoting change in conflictThere is a crisis-level need for shelter in Iraq, so why does the Iraqi government maintain a policy that stymies...
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Published in: 50.50Implementing Resolution 1325: the role of National Action PlansMuch has been gained by the women who secured SCR 1325. Seven resolutions on, these resolutions and their intent now...
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Published in: 50.50On the frontline: women building peaceGender is a matter of international peace and security. The anniversary of SCR 1325 provides a platform to reclaim...
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Published in: 50.50Missed opportunities: gender and the UN's peacebuilding reportsThe Open Debate this week on the 15th anniversary of SCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security is the UN's chance to...
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Published in: 50.50There are more of us who want peace than want the killing to continueThe ‘utopian’ slur against peacemakers is defeatist propaganda for pro-war, pro-militarisation and securitisation...
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Published in: 50.50A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperityIt’s up to us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and...
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Published in: 50.50Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war
Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women’s Initiative...
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Published in: 50.50Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is security
It feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of 'safety' that are really about...
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Published in: 50.50Walking together: imagining a new chapter in Korean historyThe goal of the international women's walk across the De-Militarized Zone is to help bring peace and reunification...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of defining 'armed conflict' in Northern IrelandIt is hard to see the British Government's resistance to implementing UNSCR 1325 as anything other than denying...
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Published in: 50.50Stopping sexual violence in conflict: gender politics in foreign policy
Consistent promotion of gender equality has to drive foreign, security and development policy if sexual violence in...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence, access to justice, and human rights
The patriarchal framework of justice which reflects gendered stereotypes, cultural and traditional prejudice has to...
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Published in: 50.50Plotting for a woman-shaped peace: Syrian and Bosnian women conferBosnian women live with the malign consequences of a peace agreement engineered by internationals between male war...
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Published in: 50.50Syrian women demand to take part in the peace talks in Geneva
There are over fifty Syrian women in Geneva this week. They are demanding a ceasefire in Syria and to be part of the...
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Published in: 50.50The quest for gender-just peace: from impunity to accountability
Yakin Erturk reflects on the six years she spent working as the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, and...
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Published in: 50.50Daring to speak: militarism and women’s human rights in Burma
‘How can we get peace and democracy when we still have domestic wars and when everyday people are dying?’ Jessica...
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Published in: 50.50Leymah Gbowee: five words for the men of Libya
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee was recently invited to Tripoli to deliver a speech on the role of women in...
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Published in: 50.50To a culture of peace from a culture of war
The culture of war is like a mangrove that takes root in our everyday lives and institutions occupying a dominant...
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Published in: 50.50"I protest": challenging the war policies of the United StatesAfter serving in the US Army, and later as a diplomat, Colonel Ann Wright resigned her position in opposition to the...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond war: women transforming militarism, building a nonviolent world
If we want to ensure that humanity is not doomed to repeat its bloodiest century, the logical move would be to mount...
