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Real World documentary 30%: Women and Politics in Sierra Leone has featured on the leading cultural and literary review magazine The Atlantic and includes an interview with 30%'s director Anna Cady on the role of women in ending the conflict in Sierra Leone, the current state of women in Sierra Leonean politics, and Anna's hopes for the film.  …

In this BBC article Hania Sholkamy comments on the ‘marriage crisis’ in Egypt which pervades around religious expectations and the affordability of marriage. Hania believes that the harassment and rape women suffer which has reached unprecedented levels in Egypt is not necessarily linked to the fact that men are single and sexually frustrated. …

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), situated in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh, is a distinct region in terms of its ethnic, cultural and environmental diversity. The CHT people have been deprived of many socio-economic and political rights and an armed insurgency was waged against the government until the signing of a Peace Accord in 1997. …

On 4 and 5 January 2008, the Pathways Middle East Hub had their first Talking Empowerment in Arabic workshop in Cairo. This was a meeting of editors and translators working on gender readers in Arabic. Also present were some translation theory academics. …

The eruption of protests, violence and civil disobedience in Egypt this month is a replay of the scene in 2011 before the status quo was ruptured, but the Muslim Brotherhood regime’s attacks on women and religious minorities in order to quell opposition is more pervasive than anything seen before, argues Mariz Tadros in this article for Open Democracy. …

A joint meeting was held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London on 19 February 2007 hosted by the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment RPC, Gender and Development Network and Women’s Study Group of the Development Studies Association to examine the potential for external pressure and lobbying on gender equality and women’s empowerment. …

This new IDS/Pathways/GIZ Working Paper by Mariz Tadros examines the nature of the political struggle over the status, role and identity of women in Egypt in between the two revolutions (January 2011 and June 2013). …

Two decades ago more than 17,000 advocates for women’s rights from around the world gathered in Beijing, China for the Fourth World Conference on Women. Alongside them over 30,000 women’s rights activists attended the parallel NGO Forum held in nearby Huairou. …

This new report captures some of the dilemmas, new thinking, the interactive process, analyses, future possibilities and challenges identified within debates on patriarchy held within an international symposium hosted by IDS in Brighton in September 2013. One of the symposium’s key aims was to help revitalise and advance thinking about gender inequality in relation to patriarchy and to re-politicise ‘gender in development’. The event brought together researchers, activists, practitioners, and policy makers from a range of fields. …

Voicing Demands, a new book by Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan, is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women’s empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women’s political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women’s voice under different contexts. …

Women everywhere are making a positive difference to the communities, countries and world they live in. But too often they are having to make these changes from the sidelines and fight to get their voices heard. …

What if Women Ruled the World? was the provocative question posed to an expert panel of women from Brighton and beyond at a lively Brighton Fringe Festival Event in May. The session was kicked off by the Real World film 30%: Women and Politics in Sierra Leone. The panel included IDS Director Melissa Leach, Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex Andrea Cornwall, Caroline Lucas MP, Chief Executive of Brighton and Hove Council Penny Thompson and activists from Outreach Bristol Muna Hassan and Ifrah Hassan. …

In the lead up to the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in a few months’ time we’ve seen a renewed focus on health systems from the international development sector in the UK. …

In this article for The Guardian, Mariz Tadros suggests that this year's 16-day campaign of global activism against violence, which focuses on militarism, fails to recognise the way in which the absence of human security and rule of law is creating a perfect environment for the perpetuation of violence against women in Arab countries that have experienced tumultuous change. …

Women in Politics, edited by Mariz Tadros, is a new book in the Pathways/Zed Feminisms and Development series.  …