Meredith
Tax has been a writer and political activist since the late 1960s, She
was a member of Bread and Roses, founding chair of International PEN’s
Women Writers’ Committee, founding President of Women’s WORLD,
and a co-founder of the Centre for Secular Space. Her
latest books are Double
Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights
and A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State
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Published in: 50.50Women's emancipation and human rights: "Can These Bones Live?"Is the human rights movement just a couple of big Northern organisations? The emancipation of women is one of the...
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Published in: 50.50Rashid Rehman: chronicle of a death foretold
Defenders of Pakistan's blasphemy laws say the rule of law prevents rule by mob. The May 7 murder of human rights...
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Published in: 50.50Climate change and false gods: Moloch and the bible-punchers in the US
The UN's IPCC report on climate change calls for immediate action to deal with a crisis which supersedes and...
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Published in: 50.50Gender-based censorship
Gender-based censorship, which takes many forms, can be seen in attempts to stifle women’s public voice - from the...
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, social justice, and US exceptionalismAmerican politicians often talk as if human rights were only relevant in other countries, but grassroots...
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Published in: 50.50The Suicide Caucus: big oil, good ol’ boys, and bible punchers
Who engineered the Congressional shutdown that imperilled the world economy? Meredith Tax looks at an alliance of...