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Published in: HomeHow it all started...The idea was born on a train ride returning from the ‘Religion Revisited’- conference of UNRISD and the Heinrich...
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Published in: HomeFaith, fundamentalisms and feminists on the frontline
While the 54th CSW last month was designed to review the work of government and civil society actors to advance the...
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Published in: 50.50Prospects for gender equality and women's human rightsOur new editorial project Religion Gender Politics provides a forum for dialogue and debate about the impact on...
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Published in: 50.50Gender justice and the ICC: turning a miracle into reality
Ahead of the first global review meeting of the Rome Statue and International Criminal Court, women from around the...
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Published in: 50.50Women seeking asylum: shame and isolation“I'd prefer, rather than going to a detention centre ... to be in prison for the rest of my life,” said Cecilia....
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Published in: 50.50Life on a knife edge: migrant domestic workers in the UKAt what point do the rights of migrant domestic workers as human beings and as workers start to take precedence over...
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Published in: 50.50Zero tolerance or zero consequence?
Laudable yet formalistic plans, committees and laws have been put in place to address violence against women, yet...
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Published in: 50.50This is my witnessThe human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma.
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Published in: 50.50Burma may save its tigers and not its women
Cora Weiss reports on the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma - an overwhelming day of stories...
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Published in: 50.50Holding up half the sky: not for ourselves aloneAs the UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review the implementation of the radical Beijing Platform for...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformation
As Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond stalemate: replacing the vicious with the virtuous circleWhat is conflict transformation? How do you begin to approach the mutual hurt of conflict embedded in systems and...
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Published in: 50.50The wedding dress with attitudeMalians do a good line in combining fashion and public relations for the causes they care about. Fatoumata and...
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Published in: 50.50The human cost of warDiana Francis finds in an exhibition of quilts and arpilleras made by women from Ireland to Chile, a rallying call...
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Published in: 50.50Domestic violence is not a private family matter
In the pioneering ruling Opuz v Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights recognized for the first time that...
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Published in: 50.50An unfortunate accident: violence in Ahmadinejad’s Iran
In the wake of the contested Iranian election, Ahmadinejad's regime is seeking to silence political dissent through...
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Published in: 50.50The power of storytelling
Zainab Magdy describes her journey as a young feminist writer in a storytelling workshop in Cairo. “Many people ask...
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Published in: 50.50Jack in a Box
He liked playing with the Jack in a Box more than any other toy. It had been his favourite since childhood, and he...
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Published in: openIndiaHonour killing: India's continuing shameThe number of love marriages might have increased in India's cities but the reality remains different in many of its villages
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Published in: 50.50When things fall apart
Alice Welbourn charts her own personal experiences of what she learnt about HIV, about herself and about others...
