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Published in: 50.50HIV: both the cause and the consequence of violence against womenIn the UK the number of women living with HIV has been steadily growing since the beginning of the epidemic. Newly...
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Published in: 50.50The challenges for women of HIV and gender violence
The hinterland of acknowledging and dealing with the links between gender violence and HIV/AIDS is mostly unexplored...
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Published in: 50.50Nameless, Genderless: The Meena Bazaar Women
What prevents politicians from discussing national security issues and violence against women in the same sentence?...
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Published in: 50.50There is no honour in ‘honour killing’
Islam is more tolerant of male-female relationships than some would have us believe. The issue of ‘honour killing’...
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Published in: 50.50“We have failed. We have nothing to celebrate”
There is a growing wave of unrest among young women at the failure of governments to recognise and implement...
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Published in: 50.50When the global is local: UN Security Council Resolutions on sexual violence are for all of us
Joining the Reclaim the Night march in London last weekend, Vanessa Alexander asks how can we advocate for the...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women in the UK: a map of gaps
The shift of funding from central to local authorities has led to the loss of essential services and...
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Published in: 50.50We are visible
Katana Gégé Bukuru spoke to Isabel Hilton at the Nobel Women's Initiative gathering in Antigua about her work for...
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Published in: 50.50Violence targets the weakest
We have found that the primary cause of all the violence and submission which women undergo is discrimination, and...
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Published in: 50.50To know that we are not aloneEvery woman at the NWI gathering in Antigua had a way of redefining democracy - from writing the new Ecuadorian...
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Published in: 50.50Laureate Jody Williams: telling it like it isJody Williams speaks frankly to Jane Gabriel about the impact that being a Nobel Peace Laureate has on her life -...
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Published in: 50.50Inside the Muslim Brotherhood: "living the other side of existence"Afaf El Sayyad tells Jane Gabriel about living within a strict section of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, what...
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Published in: 50.50Empowering women in the middle eastHibaaq Osman on dignity and violence in the middle east. Plus: blogging 16 days
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Published in: 50.50Working for women's rights in JordanAfaf Jabiri talks about taking on the Jordanian government over women's rights. Plus: blogging 16 days
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Published in: 50.50A war that can be won
The UN's John Holmes on confronting sexual violence worldwide Plus: blogging 16 days
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Published in: 50.50The preventable pandemic: one woman's storyFaustina Fynn Nyame talks about returning to her native Ghana to campaign for womens' right to safe abortion. Plus:...
