The European Union’s announced €500 million for work to end violence against women and girls. This should strengthen, rather than bypass, existing women’s rights institutions.
We welcome this week’s historic funding announcement for work to end violence against women and girls. But there are important caveats.
LGBT refugees fleeing torture, violence and discrimination often find persecution has followed them to Europe. Reception centres are beginning to respond to urgent needs.
To ally campaigns for women’s rights with racism is to accept the very logic that, at its ideological core, feminism seeks to destroy.
‘Just manly men’. ‘Guys that hit the gym’. ‘Straight-acting only’. ‘No fems’. The message for gay and bi men browsing through dating apps in Jordan is clear: masculinity is in, femininity is out.
President Sirleaf's promise to campaign for women candidates in Liberia's upcoming elections comes too little, too late.
Aid donors, governments and the United Nations have made many commitments to gender equality. Their actions have been less impressive.
These 50.50 authors will delight and challenge us with monthly comment and analysis about sexuality in Africa, and reportage on intersecting forms of oppression in Italy.
A new generation of Roma women is rising up against multiple forms of discrimination, to claim their rights to jobs, education, and healthcare.
Iran has the second highest number of sexual reassignment surgeries in the world. What’s going on?
Sister Genoveva is a 70-year old Colombian nun. She teaches city kids on human trafficking and she objects that the Bible was written by men with a patriarchal vision. Español
Why are foreign donors so enthusiastic about alternative dispute mechanisms when they deliver second class justice for women?
