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Published in: HomeHow the left is losing the war on traffickingBased on her fieldwork research on Filipinas in the sex industries in Japan, the author examines the traps and...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim womenThe arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: 50.50Women's citizenship:implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the result of last month's Southern Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist politics: creating alliances for justice and democracy
If the goals of economic and gender justice cannot be pursued in tandem, and if solid transnational alliances cannot...
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Published in: 50.50Critical intersections: the politics of gender and religion
Understanding the prominence of religions and their effects on the politics of gender defies facile explanations,...
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Published in: 50.50Donor-driven Islam ?
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of...
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Published in: 50.50Mobilising for Muslim women’s rights in India
The emerging Muslim women-led networks in India are challenging the authority of the religious elite to represent...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s citizenship: implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the outcome of the South Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and activism in...
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Published in: 50.50A tangled web: the politics of gender in Turkey
Although the women’s movement in Turkey has scored major victories in the realm of legal reforms, there is a...
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Published in: Shine A Light“We weren’t born asylum seekers”
For women seeking asylum in the UK the tales of persecution, flight and exile, of children and families left behind,...
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Published in: 50.50Positive women human rights defenders
When the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one...
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Published in: 50.50Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?
Woman-hating continues to occupy a central and too-often unrecognised and unchallenged position within our culture....
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Published in: 50.50Gender and the perils of identity politics in India
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around...
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Published in: 50.50The unhappy marriage of religion and politics
Subtle and overt forms of resistance notwithstanding, it is clear that women’s rights advocates need to be vigilant...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTelling the story of how women become asylum seekersLet the women who come to Britain for asylum from rape and mayhem in their own countries, be heard. The theatre...
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Published in: 50.50‘N-A-T-O? What’s that stand for?’How can we cheer NATO for promising equality for women in an institution we deplore? We are saying: ‘military...
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Published in: 50.50Two inches below the neck
The battle to defeat the Indecent Dressing Bill in Nigeria marks another point in the struggle between feminists and...
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Published in: 50.50War and 1325: principles or diversity checkbox ?
Why were women career soldiers, US defense contractors, female peace activists and Pentagon officials talking to...
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Published in: 50.50Faith in service: what has gender got to do with it?
Faith-based organizations are playing increasingly prominent roles in service delivery. However, the premise that...
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Published in: 50.50Killing a Mockingbird: Letter to my unborn daughter
There is something about education that confers dignity and breaks chains. It is the reason, dear daughter, why I...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
