At the Commission on the Status of Women, commitments to rural women’s empowerment are under threat. Can new, progressive alliances block advances by reactionary delegations?
In 1993, the Polish government took away our right to abortion – starting a war on women’s bodies which continues to this day.
Laura Lee died on 7 February 2018. She was a leading activist who campaigned fearlessly for the decriminalisation of sex work in the UK.
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland, researcher Marilyn Mayo in the US, and Akanksha Mehta at the University of Sussex.
“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy and feminism are interlinked.
Christian extremism as a motivator for violence is often overlooked, while clinics providing abortion services are facing growing threats.
Rejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain why they turned right. RU
Women’s ‘shocking’ participation in far-right politics has received much media attention. But is this a new trend, or have we been here before?
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are playing a key role.
The largest single-day protest in US history was also the first mass social movement response to Trump’s election. And it was a women’s initiative.
