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Published in: 50.50Gender justice activists are organising against online violence – and they need your supportThe burden of responding to violence should not fall on the most affected. We must do more to support these...
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Published in: 50.50‘Bad girls’ in Holloway prison: when being a ‘loud’ black woman was an offence in itselfBlack women were disproportionately jailed and mistreated in London’s infamous Holloway prison. This is an edited...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s bodies have become a battleground in the fight for Iran’s futureA regressive law to boost the population has restricted the reproductive choices and rights of all Iranian women....
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Published in: 50.50Tackling the trolls: how women are fighting back against online bulliesRefusing to be silent, women are leading research, campaigns and new strategies to stop trolls and create safer...
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Published in: 50.50‘Feminism is cancer’: the angry backlash against our reporting on the men’s rights movement50.50's recent dispatch on this movement received hundreds of comments and messages on social media. We read them so...
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Published in: 50.50How Pamplona is fighting sexual violence during the running of the bulls – and beyondThe San Fermín festival has become known for reports of sexual violence. But local officials say it’s a good thing...
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Published in: 50.50To end violence against women we must tackle patriarchy – and povertyViolence against women is perpetrated in order to sustain patriarchal power relations. Projects to prevent violence,...
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Published in: 50.50Finding ‘Yo Real’: fighting machismo in Mexico CityMachismo is widespread in Mexico. One organisation takes aim at ‘negative masculinities’ with weekly group classes. Español
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 3: Why we need feminist investigative journalismAt the 2018 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, 50.50 organised a panel on feminist investigative...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist journalists must document structural violence against women – with investigations from belowAny feminist anti-racist reporting project must work to dismantle received ideas of how and whose stories should be...
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Published in: 50.50Young, trans Nigerians: ‘people need to see that we exist’It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
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Published in: 50.50'The Tories cut, we bleed': the story of Women’s Lives Matter in DoncasterJoyce Sheppard talks about the campaign to save South Yorkshire’s Women’s Aid – one of many domestic violence...
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Published in: 50.50How the UN women’s talks failed to call out corporate power – letting down our human rights defendersLast month’s Commission on the Status of Women talks failed to tackle corporate impunity, despite increasingly...
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Published in: 50.50#MeToo in Japan: 'I was told not to bring shame on the country, with my story’Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations...
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Published in: 50.50Migrant farmworkers protest in New York City against sexual violenceProtesters march on Thursday to demand fast food giant Wendy’s sign up to scheme to tackle exploitation and improve...
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Published in: 50.50‘We won’t give up’: 25 years of feminist resistance to the war on women’s bodies in PolandIn 1993, the Polish government took away our right to abortion – starting a war on women’s bodies which continues to...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women at Sudan’s universities has been tolerated for far too longWestern agencies have focused on female genital mutilation in Sudan, but this isn't the only women’s rights battle...
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Published in: 50.50Can Sierra Leone’s female secret societies be allies in the fight against female genital mutilation?FGM is a deeply-rooted and widespread practice in the country. Can its locally-powerful practitioners help curtail it?
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Published in: 50.50Has Trump’s White House ‘resurrected’ Army of God anti-abortion extremists?Christian extremism as a motivator for violence is often overlooked, while clinics providing abortion services are...
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Published in: 50.50Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedentA potentially precedent-setting petition at the International Criminal Court could help human rights advocates and...
