About Laura Bates

Laura Bates is a contributor at Women Under Siege and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of women's day-to-day experiences of gender imbalance. As a freelance writer, Laura has written for the Women's Media Center, JUMP! Magazine for girls and the Feministing Community.

Articles by Laura Bates

Putting sexualised violence on the map in Syria

The New York-based Women’s Media Center’s Women Under Siege Project has been using modern technology, from e-mail to YouTube to Twitter, to carry out ground-breaking research into sexualized violence as it unfolds in Syria.

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

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