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Published in: 50.50This new political party in Poland wants to ‘re-Christianise’ EuropeFather Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the...
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Published in: 50.50‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being...
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Published in: 50.50How Verona became a ‘model city’ for far-Right and ultra-Catholic alliancesFar-Right and religious conservative movements captured the ‘city of love’ years ago. After national successes,...
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Published in: 50.50Don’t forget the working-class women who made suffragette historyA century after some UK women won the vote, most of the suffragette stories we hear still focus on the elite. But...
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Published in: 50.50After Me Too, can we trust the UK government to tackle sexual abuse?If our lawmakers fail to confront abuse in their own workplace, how do we trust them to enact effective policies for...
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Published in: 50.50Evangelicals in Guatemala on verge of ‘legalising homophobia’A ‘nefarious’ bill on ‘life and family’ is the first ever drafted by the country's evangelical churches, reflecting...
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Published in: 50.50‘Now, every woman knows she needs to fight violence everywhere’Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to end wartime sexual violence and why she appreciates...
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Published in: 50.50How Kenyan women are fighting for themselves in courtWinner of the Council of Europe’s 2018 Democracy Innovation Award talks about training women to represent themselves...
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Published in: 50.50What’s next for the MeToo movement?At the Council of Europe’s annual World Forum for Democracy, we asked five activists one simple question.
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Published in: 50.50Gender equality in Europe ‘advancing at snail’s pace’Women's rights debates take centre stage at this year's World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
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Published in: 50.50Attacks on women’s ministries are a threat to democracyWomen’s ministries in Brazil and elsewhere have been under attack from the Right for years – foreshadowing wider...
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Published in: 50.50Why the United Nations security council must let women speak freelyWomen’s civil society advocates were long excluded from the security council. This is changing, but they must be...
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Published in: 50.50Nadia Murad may have won the Nobel peace prize, but the world failed her Yazidi peopleThe international community could and should have done more to rescue those captured by ISIS. The media also failed...
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Published in: 50.50‘Sexual liberation, socialist style’: an overlooked women’s rights story?New research by Kateřina Lišková places eastern bloc countries at the forefront of the 20th-century push for gender equality
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Published in: 50.50The exploitation of Mayan women’s art is a story of racism, sexism – and global capitalismMayan women’s bodies, labour and knowledge have been exploited for centuries. This is an old story, with a...
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Published in: 50.50How Mayan women in Guatemala are fighting to protect their designs – and their identityMayan weavers are organising to defend their art, pushing for new legislation to recognise and protect their...
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Published in: 50.50This ultra-conservative institute has infiltrated the Polish state, on a relentless quest to ban abortionOrdo Iuris is an extreme anti-choice group whose founders were ‘inspired’ by a controversial Catholic fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50Can a male-dominated legal industry achieve meaningful reforms for women?Despite shocking accounts of harassment and discrimination within their profession, women lawyers in Zimbabwe and...
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Published in: 50.50Why the Women’s March sees Trump’s UK visit as ‘a glorious opportunity’Thousands plan to march in London on Friday and also raise awareness of impacts of government policies on vulnerable...
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Published in: 50.50When will a woman lead Zimbabwe?Despite repeated pledges to promote gender parity in politics, women are dramatically underrepresented among...
