Hard-Won Progress on Gender Equality Destroyed: The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Women and LGBTIQ Published: 29 June 2021 2020 was expected to be the feminist super year - the anniversaries of the UN Resolution on "Women, Peace, and Security" and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were supposed to be celebrated, and discussions about the lack of their implementation to be held. Instead, this became the year that, according to UN Women, would destroy 25 years of feminist achievements. By Jana Prosinger
Resolution 1325 Women, Peace and Safety - A Policy Paper Published: 8 June 2020 Pressrelease Not much has happened since the adoption of Resolution 1325 Women, Peace and Safety 20 years ago at UN-security council. A new Policy Paper now calls for implementation of the demands made back then.
The women, peace and security agenda. Implementation matters. Published: 4 June 2020 Policy Briefing 20 years have passed since the progressive UN Security Council Resolution 1325 "Women, Peace and Security". An initiative calls for concrete implementation. Download Please select a file format. DE EN
The Yogyakarta Principles +10 Published: 26 November 2018 Reflection International human rights law and the rights of trans people. The Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 reflects on how international law has evolved in this area. By Dodo Karsay
Women’s Rights all over the World: A Report from CSW61 Published: 12 May 2017 The world needs more women leaders and men standing up for gender equality, UN Chief Antonio Guterras re-iterated at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that held its 61st annual session in New York from 13-24 March, 2017. By Shalini Yog Shah and Dr. Axel Harneit-Sievers
Conference Documentation Published: 25 August 2010 Together with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the Heinrich Böll Foundation organized the international conference „Religion Revisited - Women’s rights and the political instrumentalisation of religion“. Here you can find the presentations of the conference speakers, reports of the working groups as well as some visual impressions of the conference.
About the Project Published: 25 August 2010 Religion continues to have a public dimension throughout the world, and from the point of view of women’s rights to equality, there is much at stake in how religion and politics intertwine. Therefore, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, in close cooperation with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), launched a research project which explored the effects of this blending of religion and politics on women’s rights and gender equality.
