en-GB Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:42:45 +0200 article 4422 at www.gwi-boell.de Wed, 16 May 2012 13:26:57 +0200 Recognizing the significance of inequitable gender relations for women’s vulnerability to climate change, this study analyzes if and how an adaptation measure involving a relocation program that gives titles to new public housing to women implemented in response to severe flooding in the Mexican state of Tabasco in 2007, has contributed to modifying  gender relations and strengthening gender equality. ]]> article 4420 at www.gwi-boell.de Wed, 16 May 2012 12:58:49 +0200 article 4404 at www.gwi-boell.de Wed, 09 May 2012 15:40:00 +0200 The Nobel Women's Initiative calls to join the campaign Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict.
The campaign will be launched in the Week of Action May 6-13. ]]> article 4400 at www.gwi-boell.de Fri, 04 May 2012 08:26:50 +0200 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. ]]> article 4365 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:01:54 +0200 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. ]]> article 4364 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:51:20 +0200 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.  ]]> article 4360 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:31:11 +0200 article 4350 at www.gwi-boell.de Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:28:03 +0200 article 4330 at www.gwi-boell.de Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:32:04 +0200 As Germany’s status as an international player has risen, the image of the citizen in uniform, including in its public presentation, has given way to that of the combatant, and been extended to include the cyber warrior, as can be seen in the USA’s current use of drones as part of its warfare tactics. ]]> article 4326 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:10:15 +0200 Leymah Roberta Gbowee and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – both from Liberia – and Tawakkul Karman (Yemen), three outstanding women's rights and peace activists, have been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. They have, for years, campaigned in different ways and in different forms against the exploitation of women, oppression, war and violence, and for women's rights and those of other suppressed people, doing so at times under extreme conditions and at high personal risk. ]]> article 4325 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:50:35 +0200 article 4321 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:47:44 +0200 article 4319 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:54:51 +0200 Experience from (post)conflict regions. Refugee Law Project working with men in Uganda. ]]> article 4311 at www.gwi-boell.de Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:43 +0200 One Man Can deals with three interconnected epidemics that are somewhat ravaging our country, our continent and the universe. I am talking about violence against women and children, HIV/AIDS and our silence two the two epidemics. To do justice it becomes important for me to share the hard facts about South Africa ]]> article 4310 at www.gwi-boell.de Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:31:27 +0200 Germans are responsible for two world wars costing millions of lives – not to mention countless injured, displaced and traumatised people. This was ultimately only possible because, in the decades leading up to these world wars, extreme forms of militarised masculinity called the shots. ]]> article 4308 at www.gwi-boell.de Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:07:12 +0200 article 4305 at www.gwi-boell.de Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:25:28 +0200 article 4300 at www.gwi-boell.de Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:02:26 +0200 Ways must be identified through which men can recognise what benefits they reap if they stop using violence. For they will only support women's interests if they are convinced that there is something in it for them. The question is therefore in what ways other than through violence + control can they experience respect! The slogan must therefore be that only “a weak man finds it necessary to use violence to get what he wants“. ]]> article 4296 at www.gwi-boell.de Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:32:47 +0200 article 4291 at www.gwi-boell.de Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:09:30 +0200 Gender roles and images change in times of crises, during and following armed conflicts, and so, too, do gender relations in a conflict-ridden society. The expert talk aimed for an in depth discussion with experts from civil society and public institutions in order to develop strategies to constructively counteract expressions of brutalised masculinities, focussing on examples from the sub-Saharan region. ]]> article 4287 at www.gwi-boell.de Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:27:11 +0200 The security needs of Afghan men and women differ. Whereas men bear the brunt of the direct impacts of conflict, women disproportionately suffer from the indirect effects such as increased levels of domestic violence, decreased access to health care and poverty. Due to this difference in security needs, gender must be taken into account when evaluating the relationship between citizens and the Afghan National Police (ANP). ]]> article 4286 at www.gwi-boell.de Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:55:44 +0200 article 4282 at www.gwi-boell.de Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:05 +0200 article 4280 at www.gwi-boell.de Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:18:27 +0200 article 4272 at www.gwi-boell.de Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:18:28 +0200