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: 50.50Due diligence for women's human rights: transgressing conventional linesOn international human rights day, Yakin Ertürk discusses the new vulnerabilities faced by women, including refugee...
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Publicado en: 50.50Sun, sand...and indefinite detentionThe UK’s second largest immigration detention centre is about to open in Weymouth. Jennifer Allsopp reports on local...
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Publicado en: 50.50Daring to speak: militarism and women’s human rights in Burma
‘How can we get peace and democracy when we still have domestic wars and when everyday people are dying?’ Jessica...
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Publicado en: 50.50Militarism and non-state actors: ‘the other invasion’
'What they call transnational development companies. For us they represent death and destruction’, yet when it comes...
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Publicado en: 50.50"We want peace. We’re tired of war"
"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...
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Publicado en: 50.50To a culture of peace from a culture of war
The culture of war is like a mangrove that takes root in our everyday lives and institutions occupying a dominant...