Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
213 articles
This Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.
UN Women & UN ESCAP / 12 minsCEDAW No. 38 connects trafficking to migration and labor, insisting that assistance must preserve autonomy.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against WomenThe Red Nation's resource page frames queer Indigenous feminism through kinship, reciprocity, anti-colonial politics, and gender and sexual diversity, making it a practical entry point into key texts and movement materials.
The Red Nation / 6 minsPlan International’s State of the World’s Girls 2020 report documents online harassment among girls and young women aged 15 - 25 and asks platforms, governments and communities to share responsibility.
Plan International / 8 minsOxford scholar Charlotte Cooper-Davis follows The City of Ladies into contemporary installation and performance, raising a further question: whose bodies and memories can shape an imagined city?
Charlotte Cooper-Davis / 7 minsSara Penn uses Mary Prince’s 1831 testimony to examine feminist bibliography: how genre labels, collaborative authorship, and archival gaps shape who can be read.
Sara PennWritten after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.
Carmen Geha / 11 minsThis article critiques the expectations of ‘perfection’ and ‘likability’ in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those ‘difficult women’ who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.
Helen Lewis / 10 minsThe 2020 Santiago Commitment connects care, countercyclical policy, public services and gender statistics, making autonomy a question of resources and accountability.
XIV Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe / 3 minsA regional human-rights assessment of the gap between laws and lived protection, with specific attention to girls, reproductive rights, disappearances, femicide, and intersecting discrimination.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / 10 minsA UN guide maps the legal standards and practical barriers shaping women’s rights to own, use, control and inherit land and other productive resources.
UN Women; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsThis regional legal review compares constitutional guarantees, nationality, family law, violence protections, labor, and criminal law across Arab states, making visible both reform and persistent discrimination.
UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and ESCWA / 45 mins