by Ignacia Ossul-Vermehren Image credit: author, Dworzark informal settlement, Freetown, Sierra Leone. How are women, in particular disabled women, affected by COVID-19 in informal settlements in the ...more

by Selen Eşençay On April 15, the Polish Parliament enacted the “Stop Abortion” bill. However, the Sejm decided to redirect the bill for further review in parliamentary committees. ...more

by Alyosxa Tudor Image credit: Cambridge Dictionary  When I hear the word ‘cunt’ (or in German, the word ‘Fotze’ for that matter) as a slur it hits me. ...more

by Saumya Pandey On 27th May 2014, two Dalit girls, aged 14 and 15, out for open defecation were allegedly kidnapped, gang raped, killed and hung from ...more

by Winy Daigavane and Anubhav Das The conduct towards the LGBT community in India has not been very progressive even after homosexuality was decriminalized. To add salt ...more

by David Eichert This blog post is based on an article published by the author in the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. In early 2018 ...more

by Devina Malaviya & Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil Image credit: Annie Spratt With the outbreak of COVID-19, the idea of the ‘home’ as a safe space has received significant ...more

by Aniket A. Panchal and G Vishal ‘Home is where the heart is’ is an adage that has been prevalent in society since time immemorial. Humans built shelters ...more

by Francesca Romana Ammaturo and Koen Slootmaeckers Every year, around the International Day Against Homo, Bi, and Transphobia, ILGA Europe, the biggest LGBTQI+ umbrella organisation in Europe ...more

by Meera Somji In December 2019 I attended a Supreme Court hearing on whether a young woman in the UK should be awarded damages to fund ...more

by Jacob Breslow You might think that in this particular moment, when there are so many lives to grieve, and when hundreds of millions of people ...more

(after Adrienne Rich) by Clare Hemmings Featured photographs are from ongoing photo series Skin Deep by Sakshi Parikh. Published with permission for this blog post. I tell people ...more

by Sarthak Makkar The Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act is a piece of legislation that seeks to protect women in India ...more

by Sonia Corrêa But, people die, don´t they? Yes, indeed. However, the current naturalization of death erases thinking - Santiago López Petit In the first week of ...more

by Anushna Jha and Mehrin Shah Illustration by Myra Sinha (10 years old). Reproduced with permission. The role of education in advancing gender equality has long been ...more

by David Paternotte (Université libre de Bruxelles) On 13 February 2019, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “on experiencing a backlash in women’s rights and gender equality ...more