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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy I’ll be striking for International Women’s DayWith women’s human rights under threat, strikers across the globe will be revealing the costs of a ‘world without women’
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Published in: ourEconomyA global strike for a feminist future of workThe IMF claims to be empowering women, but its programmes will only lead to more women doing precarious work.
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Published in: ourEconomyWhen it comes to development, Public Private Partnerships give us a lot to wonder aboutWe have seen the social contract between state and citizen morph into a contract between state and private finance.
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Published in: 50.50Women’s stories from the frontline of Sudan’s revolution must be toldWomen are leading Sudan’s revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent...
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Published in: 50.50‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countriesCases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality
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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: 50.50We have to stop blaming ‘backward’ culture for FGM and child marriageThese issues have received increased global attention. But simple attacks on ‘tradition and culture’ just fuel the...
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Published in: 50.50FGM in the UK will only end if attitudes shift from within communitiesA landmark FGM conviction last week heralds a welcome change. But ending this practice requires both criminal and...
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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: 50.50Evangelicals 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: 50.50‘We’re seeing a backlash to policies against online violence’Asha Allen from the European Women’s Lobby talks about perpetrators and forms of online violence – and what’s needed...
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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: 50.50Ten resources if you’ve experienced targeted hate onlineOnline abuse of women and LGBTQ people is relentless. But there are resources to support you, from digital security...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 5: targeted hateSocial media propaganda. Data-mining. Foreign interference in Ireland's abortion referendum. The backlash against...
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Published in: 50.50Why drug policy is a feminist issueLike feminism, harm reduction is a philosophy that encourages us to do away with the false distinction between...
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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: 50.50UK Christian ‘reactionaries’ mark 10 years of lobbying against women’s and LGBT rightsAt Christian Concern’s birthday party in London, lobbyists talked about their expansion plans and work to recruit...
