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50.50A global debate without the female half of humanity is neither global nor democratic. With this in mind, openDemocracy is running 50.50: a series of editorial projects designed to make openDemocracy a current affairs forum which is written, read and used equally by women and men.
We believe there will not be a fairer or more peaceful world without gender equality. Women's exclusion from the global debate affects both the content of the debate and the way the dialogue is conducted.
The concluding section of Rosemary Bechler's open letter urges a continuing debate on the Anglo-American feminist 'vote'. Does it reflect hard-won insights over the last twenty
years? Could it be that we have taken a wrong turn, and may miss out on
a historic opportunity in which feminists have a unique role to play?
Over the coming weeks 50:50 will be looking for as many answers as
possible to these questions.
Part one of five begins on the election campaign trail
In the second section, Rosemary Bechler looks at some US feminist thinking that she argues provides a better critical approach
Part three sees a lesson in the Greenham Common experience
Part four concentrates on an old debate about women and war.
In this penultimate section, Rosemary Bechler finds a topic worthy of feminist debate. Could it be that we have taken a wrong turn, and may miss out on a historic opportunity in which feminists have a unique role to play? Over the coming weeks 50:50 will be looking for as many answers as possible to these questions.
Part one of five began on the election campaign
trail.
In the second section, Rosemary
Bechler looked at some US feminist thinking that she argues provides a
better critical approach
Part three saw a lesson in the Greenham Common experience
Rosemary
Bechler has been looking at some of the discussion around the ‘feminist
vote' in the US elections. What does it tell us in particular about
Anglo-American feminist ambitions today? Do they exist? Do they reflect
hard-won insights over the last twenty years? Could it be that we have
taken a wrong turn, and may miss out on a historic opportunity in which
feminists have a unique role to play? Over the coming weeks 50:50 will
be looking for as many answers as possible to these questions.
Part one
of five begins on the election campaign trail.
In the second section, Rosemary Bechler looked at some US
feminist thinking that she argues provides a better critical approach.
Part three sees a lesson in the Greenham
Common experience...
Over the next few days Rosemary Bechler looks at
some of the discussion around the ‘feminist vote' in the US elections. What does it tell us in particular about
Anglo-American feminist ambitions today? Do they exist? Do they reflect
hard-won insights over the last twenty years? Could it be that we have taken a
wrong turn, and may miss out on a historic opportunity in which feminists have
a unique role to play? Over the coming weeks 50:50 will be looking for as many
answers as possible to these questions.
Part one begins on the election campaign trail
In the second section, Rosemary Bechler looks at some US feminist thinking that she argues provides a better critical approach
Over the next few days Rosemary Bechler looks at
some of the discussion around the ‘feminist vote' in the US elections. What does it tell us in particular about
Anglo-American feminist ambitions today? Do they exist? Do they reflect
hard-won insights over the last twenty years? Could it be that we have taken a
wrong turn, and may miss out on a historic opportunity in which feminists have
a unique role to play? Over the coming weeks 50:50 will be looking for as many
answers as possible to these questions.
Part one of five begins on the election
campaign trail.
Professor Balghis Badri speaks to Jane Gabriel about the women being empowered in the midst of conflict. Listen now
Ignoring gender issues in development hinders progress in tackling inequality and injustice
Jane Gabriel meets the actors and writers of the Cairo-based Women and Memory forum. Listen now
Meeting women's rights activists in Salvador, Brazil, Jane Gabriel finds there can be no talk of empowerment without first tackling endemic violence. Listen now
When it comes to
the salami slicing around which foreigners are deserving and which not, the
moral high ground is a treacherous terrain. What is needed is less rhetoric and
far more politics.
The unsettling effect of immigrants
and refugees is a signal of their pivotal global role
The imminent UK ratification of a European
convention which describes women in the sex trade as the victims of trafficking
is to be welcomed, not least because it will lead to more prosecutions. Isn't
it time that the government criminalised the buyers of these services?
The UK's Iraqi asylum seekers are now being forced
to return to all areas of Iraq.
Are the lives of refugees being used for political gain?
Britain prides itself on a tradition of providing refuge for those fleeing persecution. But asylum policy has undergone many changes through the ages. Here we outline some of the key events in history.
Asylum has a pedigree stretching back to the Greek empire, but many liberal states are still struggling with a central question: how do you
reconcile the rights of people, which are universal, and citizens, which are particular?
South Africa's young democracy must meet the test of the wave of anti-foreigner violence
Development policy is embracing market-led growth and neglecting gender equality
Afaf El Sayyad tells Jane Gabriel about living within a Muslim movement in Egypt, what drove her to leave, and how it felt to take off her veil. Listen now.
UN Special Rapporteur Dr Yakin Ertürk calls for action now to end violence against women. Listen now
Rwanda’s people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, write a new chapter in their history
Mai Ghoussoub and Parvin Paidar's humane, life-affirming example is missed and needed
One woman's inspiring story of tackling gun violence and small arms proliferation in India
The release of a woman awaiting execution by stoning in Iran is a small step towards ending all forms of violence against women
Hussaina Abdullah spoke to Jane Gabriel about rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of civil war. Listen now
Cristian Mungiu makes humane, engaging art from
the bleakness of a young woman's illegal abortion
The basic rights of women in the developing world are being ignored in the battle against poverty
Despite an effective women's movement, Brazil has one of the lowest rates of female political participation in the world. Why?
Saudi Arabia's women and young people are creating new spaces of personal freedom
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