A Global Gaze: The work of donor organizations for LGBTI-Rights in the Global South and East

- The current Global Gaze Report provides an overview on how international donor organizations promote and financially support LGBTI organizations and projects in the Global South and East. more»

The Future We Want. A Feminist Perspective

- The multiple crises – the financial crash, hunger, climate change and resource scarcity – demonstrate emphatically that neoliberal market globalization cannot fulfill its promises: namely to bring about the optimal allocation of resources on the entire planet and thus be a win-win game for all. This also implies the failure of the concept of sustainability put forward at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.  Christa Wichterich more»

Shadow report on the Violations of the Rights of LGBT in Serbia

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In March 2009, the Serbian National Assembly narrowly passed the Anti-Discrimination Law despite immense opposition from religious leaders and right-wing political parties. Nevertheless, breaches of Human Rights of LGBT are still common in Serbia today. This Shadow Report evaluates the law’s application and provides recommendations of how to improve implementation and thus the Human Rights situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Inter* individuals in Serbia.

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Women and Climate Change: Winners of the European Greens Essay Contest

- The impacts of changes to the global climate affect men and women not only differently, but women are often affected disproportionally worse. Gender equality and the fight against climate change are two challenges that have to be tackled simultaneously, and urgently. A collection of Essays.  more»

Perspectives #2.11: The Power To Participate - Building Feminist Political Influence in Africa

- Women's presence in political structures needs to be considered in relation to the power of citizens' voice in general, and of women's in particular; the influence of social and women's movements and their relations with one another; the nature and culture of political parties; and the norms and capacity of state institutions.

The articles brought together in this edition of Perspectives address some of these considerations.

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Gender, War, and Militarism - Feminist Perspectives

- This compelling, interdisciplinary compilation of essays documents the extensive, intersubjective relationships between gender, war, and militarism in 21st-century global politics. more»

Women in New Migrations. Current Debates in European Societies

- The volume offers an overview of research and debates concerning new female migrants in European countries. With a contribution by Maria Kontos. more»

Gender and Women’s politics in Cambodia – Scoping study for the Cambodia Program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

- Kim Baureaksmey and Susanne Schütte analyze in their study approaches and strategies by organizations working in the field of gender and women politics. It focusses especially on their major problems in the field, looks for overlapping contents and indentifies potential cooperation partners. more»

Action Research - Promoting Political Participation of Indigenous Women in Cambodia

- This study by Margherita Maffii and Hong Sineath was launched in order to better understand the obstacles, challenges and opportuneties that indegenous women in Cambodia face in their efforts to participate effectively and equally in the public sphere. more»

Women's Perspectives: A Case Study of Systematic Land Registration

- This study by Mehrak Mehrvar, Chhay Kim Sore and My Sambath aims to identify emerging issues regarding women's access to Land in Cambodia while examining women's participation in the process of systematic land registration. A particular focus is thereby at cases of seperated, divorced and abandoned relationships that occured prior to systematic land registration. more»

Scratching the Surface - Democracy, Traditions, Gender

- This book provides an insight into the multi-faceted nature of democracy and its complex demands. It looks into greater detail, the conceptual anomalies, the structural inequalities and ethical defects, especially in the context of South Asian countries. more»

Struggle for Equality. Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Human Rights in Africa

- Today homosexuality is outlawed in 38 African countries. In some countries offenders can be punished with death and in many more with harsh jail sentences. This edition of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s series Perspectives, presents the latest developments, issues and challenges. mehr»

Diversity and Female Political Participation: Views on and from the Arab World

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What does the political participation of women look like within the immense diversity of the Arabic world? In this edition of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s series on Democracy, these questions are analyzed based on historical and current developments of gender relationships, and the role of women in the politics of Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.

Claudia Derichs & Heinrich Böll Foundation (eds.) more»

Gender in the EU. The Future of the Gender Policies in the European Union

- The newest publication of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Regional Office in Warsaw contains contributions made at the regional conference “Gender in the EU. The Future of the Gender Policies in the European Union,” which took place on 28 October, 2010 in Warsaw. more»

Gender Politics Makes a Difference

- Experiences of the Heinrich Böll Foundation across the world. Gender justice is an ambitious goal, one that the Heinrich Böll Foundation is pursuing together with many different allies worldwide. This publication gives an overview of its work. Edited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, November 2009 more»

Gender Dynamics and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

- This volume by international authors deals with the role of gender dynamics in the development of post-conflict societies. Published by Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2009. By Christine Eifler & Ruth Seifert (eds.) more»

Gender Mainstreaming - How Can We Successfully Use Its Political Potential?

- The publication contains texts by Barbara Unmüßig and Claudia Neusüß, which provide an introduction to gender mainstreaming, and four case studies written by European experts. Heinrich Böll Foundation Regional Office Warsaw, December 2008 more»