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Published in: 50.50Capitalism's bright 'Third Billion' future?Management consultants have their eye on women as growth drivers and change agents for multi-national companies, and...
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Published in: 50.50The mind of the traffickersConsumer campaigns, self-help methodology and those who risk their lives to defend others cannot match the power of...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s rights and the rule of law: education and implementation
Legislative victories are important in changing society to eradicate injustices like forced child marriage, but such...
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Published in: 50.50The Circumcision
A story by Fatin Abbas. Part of a series of of poems and short stories by African feminist writers for 16 Days of...
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Published in: 50.50'Culture' clash: the law, women's rights and real-world solutions
When culture trumps law to undermine women's rights, new forms of culture can help women in the struggle for...
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Published in: 50.50Men: time to stand up
For too long the absence of men and boys, as well as the missing component of youth ingenuity and passion, has been...
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Published in: 50.50A long road ahead for Yemeni womenWomen led many of the protests, and were vital in the sustainability of the movement during the Yemeni revolution,...
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Published in: 50.50Revolution is female: the uprising of women in the Arab worldThe Arabic word for revolution, thawra, has a female gender. So does the word ’huriya (freedom), and so does the...
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Published in: 50.50India: breaking the supply chain of human beings
There are more than one million prostituted girls in India. "Only when the buyers of sex are arrested will the...
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Published in: 50.5016 jours: de la démystification à la dénonciationLa violence faite aux femmes est une épidémie que nous ne pouvons pas accepter. Le mariage précoce et forcé reste le...
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Published in: 50.5016 Days: from demystification to denunciationViolence against women is a public plague no one can live with and early and forced marriage remains the main...
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Published in: 50.50A victory against modern day slavery
The ILO Domestic Workers Convention was unthinkable just a few years ago. It represents the culmination of years of...
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Published in: 50.50Human Luggage: lives of neo-bondage and servitude
New immigration rules in the UK enforce the power of abusive employers over migrant domestic workers. It is a lack...
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Published in: 50.50Why Trust Women?
Whether they work in an office in Luxembourg or a field in Malawi, abused women cannot play their full part in...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging the merchants of human slaveryWe need to remind people that the sex industry has created a structured system of merchandising humans. We should...
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Published in: 50.50Taliban: agent or victim?In their attempt to assassinate girl-activist, Malala Yousufzai, has the Taliban inadvertently rescued the narrative...
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Published in: 50.50Myopic Morsi and oblivious Obama: counting the costs of autocracy
President Morsi’s ill-advised and badly executed attempts to concentrate power in his hands will exact high moral,...
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Published in: 50.50The perilous slide: towards an Islamist dictatorship in Egypt?
President Morsi’s latest constitutional declaration, even if it is cloaked in democratic and revolutionary rhetoric,...
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Published in: 50.50Women human rights defenders: activism's front-line
There is growing recognition by the international community that women human rights defenders are best placed to...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential
Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been...
