Jeremy Corbyn's Working with Women policy document has been well received by feminists, but the silence on the intersectionality of religious fundamentalism and women’s oppression, and on prostitution, raises questions.
An Amnesty draft policy to protect women in sex work has attracted a fierce debate, but sex workers' voices are often absent in the opposition arguments.
The opening of a Jack the Ripper Museum was not only insulting in how it seemed to glorify the murder of women – it was a disservice to all of us interested in local history and inclusive explorations of our past.
HIV rates are driven by widespread global inequalities. What will it take to put the human rights of indigenous women living with HIV on the global map?
We know breast is best, but the challenges of juggling work and motherhood still throw up insurmountable barriers for women.
Might pain and oppression be like love—a simple thunderbolt at times, and in other circumstances complex and slow burning over generations?
Too often women's oppression is sidelined as a lesser cause, and women's experiences dismissed, as two cases in Sweden and Norway show.
After the recession, the rise in casual and precarious contracts is entrenching gender inequality in the UK.
The efforts of NGOs and international organisations to gradually nudge post-war northern Uganda towards a ‘gender just society’ ignore the fact that gender equality also has real enemies.
Beyond bio-medical models, recent research has enabled a better psycho-social understanding of how women can access HIV treatment, if they want to, in stressful daily conditions.
Only when we approach gender equality mainstreaming in a more strategic way can we claim that gender equality is a fundamental principle of European Union Common Security and Defence Policy missions.
"At the heart of my work is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist through mutual respect and rights." - Pragna Patel
