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Published in: 50.50Why drug policy is a feminist issueLike feminism, harm reduction is a philosophy that encourages us to do away with the false distinction between...
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Published in: 50.50Trans rights: Woman’s Place UK responds to 50.50’s reportA co-founder of the women’s group responds to openDemocracy’s report analysing opposition to potential gender...
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Published in: 50.50UK sexual politics have become ‘profoundly authoritarian’ says Beatrix CampbellI interviewed the prominent feminist amid ‘heated and toxic’ debates over proposed reforms to the UK’s Gender Recognition Act
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Published in: 50.50Why the United Nations security council must let women speak freelyWomen’s civil society advocates were long excluded from the security council. This is changing, but they must be...
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Published in: 50.50Christian Right and some UK feminists ‘unlikely allies’ against trans rightsNew analysis shows that groups that traditionally disagree are now on the same side – against reforming the Gender...
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Published in: 50.5028 abortion rights successes in 2018For International Safe Abortion Day, on 28 September, we are celebrating 28 aspects of progress and success we’ve...
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Published in: 50.50We simply said ‘enough’: the story of Spain’s ‘Las Kellys’ hotel cleanersFrom gruelling working conditions to more limited access to healthcare, austerity policies have hit women hardest....
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Published in: 50.5010 years of women's resistance to austerity across Europe – in picturesWomen across Europe have not been passive victims of austerity policies. From Paris, France to Nicosia, Cyprus, they...
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Published in: 50.50‘This story rarely gets told’: 10 years of women’s resistance to austerity across EuropeFrom the UK to Greece, women have been hit hardest by austerity policies since the 2008 financial crisis. This...
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Published in: 50.50In rural Paraguay, women are on the frontlines of a ‘race against time’ to save native seedsAmid the spread of industrial farming, transgenic crops and seed patents, rural women are conserving native...
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Published in: 50.50Re-imagining the American Dream: a decade of sisterhood with Positive Women’s NetworkWomen living with HIV are mobilising to demand visibility and rights in the US. Our collective voice, vision and...
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Published in: 50.50Gender justice activists are organising against online violence – and they need your supportThe burden of responding to violence should not fall on the most affected. We must do more to support these...
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Published in: 50.50‘Bad girls’ in Holloway prison: when being a ‘loud’ black woman was an offence in itselfBlack women were disproportionately jailed and mistreated in London’s infamous Holloway prison. This is an edited...
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Published in: 50.5025 feminist alternatives to mainstream media in Spain and Latin AmericaFrom the most playful topics to the most serious, these platforms provide alternative coverage of current affairs –...
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Published in: 50.50Argentina abortion vote divides the nation, from senators to doctorsThe senate votes this week on a potentially groundbreaking bill to legalise voluntary abortion. Opponents include...
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Published in: 50.50Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of historyFrom Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
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Published in: 50.50This ultra-conservative institute has infiltrated the Polish state, on a relentless quest to ban abortionOrdo Iuris is an extreme anti-choice group whose founders were ‘inspired’ by a controversial Catholic fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50Why the Women’s March sees Trump’s UK visit as ‘a glorious opportunity’Thousands plan to march in London on Friday and also raise awareness of impacts of government policies on vulnerable...
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Published in: 50.50'A historic victory for women's rights': how the world responded to Ireland's abortion referendumMedia from the UK to Argentina react to the results of Friday’s vote, laying the path to legislation for safe...
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Published in: 50.50Who benefits from sensationalised media coverage of abortion? Hint: not women, whose lives are at stakeMedia outlets too often cover abortion-related news in inaccurate and derogatory ways. Activists and progressive...
