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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: 50.50'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: 50.50DRC mining industry is a prime example of how corporate power threatens women’s rightsThis is why feminist activists are mobilising behind a proposed international treaty to regulate the impacts of...
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Published in: 50.50Video: feminist activists speak out against corporate impunityHuman rights abuses. Plundered resources. #Feminists4BindingTreaty explain why corporations must be held accountable...
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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: 50.50Apply for a 50.50 women’s rights and corporate power reporting fellowshipWe need your help to investigate women’s rights and corporate power around the world. Apply for a 50.50 reporting fellowship.
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Published in: 50.50How women migrant workers defy ‘social control’ with everyday resistanceWomen migrant workers face extreme forms of social control in Saudi Arabia. One Sri Lankan woman shares her story of...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s voices must not be ignored in business and human rights talksThe corporate rush for land and resources in the Global South has gender-specific impacts on women, who are...
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Published in: 50.50How the 'business case' for gender equality sidelines human rightsWomen’s rights at work are an investment in their dignity. If we want to talk about economic returns, let’s...
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Published in: 50.50It's up to you: why neoliberal feminism isn't feminism at allMainstream feminism in the US is easily digestible and always subordinate to demands of neoliberal economics. As a...
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Published in: 50.50A feminist revolution demands climate justiceTo change everything, it takes everyone, and to fight oppression, we must fight it in all forms, at all times. This...
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Published in: 50.50"Visionary and creative resistance": meet the women challenging extractivism – and patriarchyEnvironmental degradation is deliberate, violent and patriarchal. From Turkey to Guatemala, women are on the...
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Published in: 50.50Quantity and quality: Part 1 on funding women’s rightsThe first international women’s fund explores how funding women and girls translates (or doesn’t) into money for...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and humiliation at the job centreThe lack of self-confidence among young women looking for a job in Britain, revealed in the ‘Work It Out’ report, is...
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Published in: 50.50Grunwick 40 years on: lessons from the Asian women strikersThe women who led the Grunwick dispute challenged not just the stereotypes of Asian women within British society,...
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Published in: 50.50Taxing lives, trading womenTax havens and international trade deals are feminist issues. At this year’s AWID conference in Brazil, activists...
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Published in: 50.50Women beedi rollers and necrocapitalism in Sri LankaWomen in one village in the Jaffna district of northern Sri Lanka have been rolling beedi with their bare hands for...
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Published in: 50.50From colonials to corporates: maternal mortality in Assam’s tea gardensFor the women employed in the tea gardens of Assam, pregnancy is a life-threatening ordeal. An interactive...
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Published in: 50.50Legumes vs. labour rights: how Indian women pay for the cost of dalA cooking project in Asia’s biggest informal settlement brings into focus the millions of workers denied a share in...
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Published in: 50.50Why the Panama Papers are a feminist issueThose shifting and hiding their wealth are failing to pay back into the ‘care economy’ - the people who produce and...
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