Jennifer Allsopp is a writer and researcher working on migration, gender and social policy. She was a commissioning editor at openDemocracy 50.50 between 2011 and 2017, facilitating the People on the Move migration platform (2011-2017) and series including 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence (2012), Unlocking Detention (2014-15) and working with francophone activists for Our Africa (2012-14). She reported from numerous international feminist gatherings including for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (2015) and the Nobel Women's Initiative (2012, 2015, 2017). She has worked at the universities of Exeter, Birmingham and Queen Mary's and is completing a PhD at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Twitter @JenniferAllsopp.
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Publicado en: 50.50Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of warIraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women’s Initiative...
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Publicado en: 50.50Women human rights defenders: reigniting the embers
The profile of today’s front line activist is different to that of the freedom fighter of old. We need to see her in...
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Publicado en: 50.50Hidden women human rights defenders in the UKWithout recognising the work of women who seek to protect human rights domestically, the UK government risks seeing...
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Publicado en: 50.50Disposable GirlsThe fight to protect the world's girls, whether from sexual exploitation or abduction, is not about saving...
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Publicado en: Shine A LightDeath at Yarl’s Wood: Women in mourning, women in fearAbuse at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre is finally mainstream news. When a woman died at Yarl’s Wood in...
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Publicado en: 50.50Migrant lives in the UK: the deprivation of libertyDetention is often seen as a difficult issue and one best avoided, even among those who make it their business to...