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Published in: 50.50The Saudi response to the ‘Arab spring’: containment and co-optionSaudi Arabia’s response to the ‘Arab spring’ has been an attempt to co-opt movements for change in a bid to maintain...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the new Libya: challenges aheadWill the rights of the women, who participated in the struggles leading to fall of Gaddafi, be put under pressure in...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian storytelling: a vessel for power
Writing has come to mean place and presence, and presence gives us power to force those who don't acknowledge our...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s get real: female sexual pleasure and HIV prevention
The dominant HIV intervention response assumes that HIV transmission only occurs in contexts of danger and...
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Published in: 50.50Mad Women on the MarchThe Fawcett Society believes that the UK coalition government has broken the law in not assessing the impact of...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons of the hummingbird
In the company of souls departed and souls vibrantly alive, Jessica Horn reflects on the significance of the lives...
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Published in: 50.50Clearing ground: planting the seeds of Our Africa
On the launch of Our Africa, co-editor Jessica Horn reflects on the lives of two formidable Africans, Wambui Otieno...
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Published in: 50.50The security sector: an awkward space for engagement
Alongside powerful arguments against militarism, we are hearing an increasingly significant voice from within the...
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Published in: 50.50Jessica Horn discusses militarism
Jessica Horn, writer, women’s rights consultant and openDemocracy 50.50 blogger, discusses her thoughts on different...
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Published in: 50.50Prevention is the cure“There is a reason that international institutions have been so slow to move on this agenda - it is because impunity...
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Published in: 50.50'Wounded warriors': sexual assault in the US military
Sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce commissioned Gallup to do a...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence: the healing imperative
How far do our post-conflict reconstruction efforts go when it comes to addressing the trauma and loss that women...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the two faces of liberation
"The goddess Sekhmet has risen once and will rise again so Hathour can flourish in peace and justice" - Zainab Magdy...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: from equality of purpose to equality on the ground
"We acted together and we all adhere to the same values: justice, compassion, and unity, and these values are...
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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: 50.50Owner of a Heart
Once upon a time, in a place far far away and a time that was neither happy nor glorious in a small town, there was...
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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: 50.50To know that we are not aloneEvery woman at the NWI gathering in Antigua had a way of redefining democracy - from writing the new Ecuadorian...
