How the new EU gender strategy fails east-central European women The coronavirus epidemic exposes the care crisis and underlying class and regional inequalities — which the new strategy does not equip us to handle. By Elena Zacharenko and Eszter Kováts
GBV victims at risk & shelters, COVID-19 lockdown Press Release While South Africans are preparing for lockdown, isolating at home presents additional risks for abused victims, says the National Shelter Movement. By Natasha Adonis
Collective Feminism and Solidarity Article 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 Yogyakarta Alliance: A Postcolonial League Report A serious and critical examination of the German colonial history needs a concept of inclusion for LSBTIQ in development cooperation. By Sarah Kohrt
Announcement: Anne Klein Women’s Award 2019 With its Anne Klein Women’s Award, the Heinrich Böll Foundation honours women who courageously and perseveringly advocate human rights, equality and sexual self-determination. The award ceremony will be held in Berlin on March 1, 2019.
Women’s Rights all over the World: A Report from CSW61 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
“Wherever I’ve been, I’ve been appointed to be a leader” Nomarussia Bonase was born in 1966 in Apartheid South Africa. Early on, her struggle for equal rights begins. Later she joins the Khulumani Support Group founded by women. A portrait of the winner of the Anne-Klein-Women’s-Award 2017. By Rebecca Davis
"One Cube" Three, yet one! "One Cube" Three, yet one! - is a documentary film by Pramod Dev. Depicting three women who work in export-oriented sectors of India's economy. By Shalini Yog Shah
All for Equality - Equality for all. Sexual and reproductive rights in CEE Despite the unquestionable global progress concerning women’s autonomy, their human rights to decide freely and responsibly on sexual and reproductive health remain to an unacceptable degree unfulfilled. Therefore, this particular issue constituted the central theme of presentations at the Fourth International Gender Workshop in Warsaw.