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Published in: 50.50Lessons from farmers and indigenous women: cultivate democracyLearning to live in harmony with the land is co-constituent to human rights activism. Jennifer Allsopp reports for...
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Published in: 50.50How to fight gun violence in Trump’s AmericaWe must double down on grassroots, community activism. Even with Trump in office, women can and must organize to end...
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Published in: 50.50"Visionary and creative resistance": meet the women challenging extractivism – and patriarchyEnvironmental degradation is deliberate, violent and patriarchal. From Turkey to Guatemala, women are on the...
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Published in: 50.50Monsters, jealousy and “sick love” — how the Italian media covers violence against womenStatistics give partial pictures of gender-based violence in Italy – but the language used to cover such violence...
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Published in: 50.50How Rojava-inspired women's councils have spread across EuropeCould this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rightsThe international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and...
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Published in: 50.50Why the old Holloway Prison in north London should become a new women's buildingThis former site of state violence against women must be reclaimed – for the collective good.
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Published in: 50.50Gender-just laws versus “divine” law in Sri LankaThe heated debate over reforming Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka has resulted in an unprecedented mobilization of...
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Published in: 50.50No Women’s Day without refugee womenHand-in-hand with Trump, Theresa May is not merely playing to an anti-migrant populist crowd but helped to create...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from Syria on women's empowerment during conflictSyrian women will be the pillars of any future democratic process. Their efforts deserve support from national and...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist pacifism or passive-ism?Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In the face of increasing femicide, sexual violence and rape culture, we need...
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Published in: 50.50Berta Vive! Lessons from Honduras on resistanceA year on from the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Caceres, five Honduras leaders give key lessons on...
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Published in: 50.50Should domestic abuse have its own law?In the UK, there is no specific offence for 'domestic violence'. Is the law failing women seeking justice?
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Published in: 50.50Internally displaced women: social rupture and political voice
Displacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...
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Published in: 50.50India's female genital mutilation: a thousand-year-old secretSo little was known, until recently, about the secretive practice of FGM in a small Muslim community that India is...
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Published in: 50.50Escaping domestic violence: ‘according to the law, you are not here’Many women survivors of violence in Europe cannot access support services because of their migration status. The...
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Published in: 50.50Investigating Sri Lanka’s ‘nude’ cultureLearning from schoolgirls and boys about blackmail, ‘nudes’ and cyber exploitation in Sri Lanka.
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Published in: 50.50The Indian judiciary are paper tigersIn the final of a three-part series dealing with the law on domestic violence in India, we focus on the failures of...
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Published in: 50.50A jail, not a shelter: women’s refuges in IndiaOn the tenth anniversary of a major law dealing with domestic violence in India, we explore how the poor quality of...
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Published in: 50.50Is the Indian law on domestic violence fit for purpose?In the first of this three part series, we examine the effectiveness of one of the major planks of the domestic...
