Democracy

Women’s political participation is making slow progress, while the overall record of the NLD government on women’s rights remains ambivalent.

While millions protested the murder of George Floyd and racist police brutality all over the world, there has been a lack of acknowledgement of the injustices towards Black women, and of their leading roles in social movements. Edna Bonhomme analyses the significance of Black women within social movements throughout history until today.

The diverse involvement of women at local, regional and federal level has long been central to the political development of the US. Nevertheless, women are still significantly underrepresented in political office. Can this change now?

The artwork, which was published on the company’s Social Media platforms with the caption “Stay home, Armenia! It can save lives,” portrays the statue of Mother Armenia sitting in front of the television, with her sword by her side. She is in a pensive mood and waiting to go back to her duty, hold her sword, and guard her nation. 

The coronavirus pandemic – just like society – runs along fault lines of gender, race, class and other inequalities. With women over-represented in vulnerable frontline jobs, there are fears that technologies proposed to tackle the pandemic could inflict harms that differ based on gender. 

the pandemic crises have been recorded in our individual and collective unconscious as health crises with an economic impact. But is that really the case?

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and further exacerbated many inequalities - especially the ones concerning woman. 

COVID-19 uniquely affects women. Here are many of the ways it does.

Heinrich Boll Foundation believes in collective action to amplify the work of individual feminist and move beyond silos to build collective power. In this front, the foundation has on various occasions hosted gatherings of feminist to facilitate collective actions.

The op-ed has been written by Omid Nouripour together with Manuel Sarrazin. It was first published in Ukrainian on the website of Novoye Vremia media outlet.