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Published in: 50.50Sri Lanka: where are the women in local government?The women party activists who applied for nominations to stand in next week's local elections in Sri Lanka found...
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Published in: 50.50The rightful place of gender equality within Islam
An animated discussion is taking place about the relationship between Islam and equality and justice in the context...
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Published in: HomeStatement from the Coalition of Women's NGO's in Egypt
Women's NGOs in Egypt denounce the decision of the National Council of Women to represent their views at...
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Published in: 50.50Pakistan: the Taliban's successful marriage of dogma and custom
That the guardians of women's virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: the transition to democracy needs women
Boots-on-the-ground often plays itself out in the transitional period after deadly conflict: predominantly male...
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Published in: 50.50Women's citizenship:implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the result of last month's Southern Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist politics: creating alliances for justice and democracy
If the goals of economic and gender justice cannot be pursued in tandem, and if solid transnational alliances cannot...
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Published in: 50.50Critical intersections: the politics of gender and religion
Understanding the prominence of religions and their effects on the politics of gender defies facile explanations,...
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Published in: 50.50Mobilising for Muslim women’s rights in India
The emerging Muslim women-led networks in India are challenging the authority of the religious elite to represent...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and the perils of identity politics in India
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around...
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Published in: 50.50The unhappy marriage of religion and politics
Subtle and overt forms of resistance notwithstanding, it is clear that women’s rights advocates need to be vigilant...
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, fundamentalism, power and prejudice
International human rights law is not a sufficient basis for responding to religious fundamentalism. Fundamentalisms...
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Published in: 50.50No more 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'
As a political instrument of power projection and status, nuclear weapons carry a peculiarly masculine symbolism. In...
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Published in: 50.50Civil society diplomats at the UN
" We’re not interested in making war safe for women… There are many substitutes for oil, but I can't think of a...
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Published in: 50.50The secular state: protector of women's rights?
By relying on the secular state as the answer to the religious right and entrusting the Left with the protection of...
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Published in: HomeReproductive rights: battleground of moral values
What are the implications for women's reproductive rights of the strong legacy of Catholicism acting as a marker of...
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Published in: 50.50Religion, peace and gender
As the number of interfaith and faith-based peace initiatives grows, women peace activists from twenty one countries...
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Published in: 50.50'Know-How', 'Know-What' and the politics of knowledge for social change
In an age when wealth and power present a more diffuse and benign face to the world, the soft authority of knowledge...
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Published in: 50.50Fundamentalist strategy: the secular and the religious
In Latin America a close network of religious leaders from different traditions, political elites and civil...
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Published in: 50.50Sex, secularism, and religious influence in U.S. politics
To promote gender equality, feminist alliance politics in the U.S. needs to challenge Protestant hegemony in both...
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