Men to Men Strategy Toolkit: For Working with Men to Combat Gender Based Violence

- The Toolkit shares information, tools, activities, and skills building ideas and methods to support organisations and individuals to better understand the needs of working with men to address sexual and gender based violence and the spread of HIV in collaboration with women’s rights organisations in Africa. The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) more»

Championing the Women's Agenda Within the First 100 Days

- With a supportive Constitution, leadership that intends to affirm women and youth, and almost 20% representation in the 11th Parliament thanks to affirmative action, could this be considered a new dawn for Kenyan women? Joan Birika more»

Electoral Security and Peace Building - A Dialogue with the Women's Situation Room

- Origin of the Women's Situation Room (WSR); its structure and reach; benefits of the WSR process to voters, candidates and members of the public, and how the WSR process was linked or supported by the national security, peace and legal machinery are some of the issues tackled at the forum. more»

Violence Against Women Album

- Apart from being rich, famous, widely successful and being recipients of numerous national and international awards, what could Omawumi, M.I Abaga, Waje and ElDee have in common? Well, we found out when the four of them came together to sing on one album and lend their voices to the cause of ending violence against women.
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Town Hall Meeting - Enhancing State Response to Gender Based Violence in Khayelitsha

- Khayelitsha township experiences one of the highest rates of violence against women in the Cape Town metro. In October 2012, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in partnership with Free Gender hosted a town hall meeting that sought to engage all relevant stakeholders in order to identify priority interventions for local government
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Feminism. Assemblage Point

- With the support of the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation three activists from Georgia and Armenia: Eka Aghdgomelashvili from Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group, Georgia; Nino Gamisonia from Independent Feminist Group and Partisan Girls, Georgia; and Elvira Meliksetyan from Women’s Resource Center of Armenia participated in the International Conference - “Feminism. Assemblage Point” organized on 5-7 March, 2013 in Kiev by feminist organization Ofenziva supported by the Heinrich Boell Foundation Ukraine Office. Elvira Meliksetyan more»

A decade of regional feminist activism

- In the early 2000, the Collective for Research and Training on Development – Action, CRTD.A, and its network of feminist allies in the Arab region identified the denial of Arab women’s right to nationality to be a resilient form of state driven discrimination against women. How this reality changed during the last decade and what are the needed actions?   CRTD.A more»

Role of Political Parties in Promoting Gender Equality in Leadership

- Taking cognisance of the crucial role of political parties in the electoral process, the forum sought to ascertain the position of political parties on the controversy surrounding the timelines for the implementation of the gender two-thirds rule enshrined in Article 81 b) of the Constitution. It also sought to interrogate party initiatives to bridge the gender gap in political participation, challenges and untapped potential relating to women’s political participation in Kenya. Irene Ekonga more»

Women in Georgia: cultural norms and social responsibility

- In spite of declared equality, the lack of women in Georgian politics and at all levels of government is obvious. This was the main topic of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s public discussion organized in Batumi.  more»

Rabia’s Free Kick

- Tradition and Emancipation are two important poles influencing the societal acceptance of women's soccer in Lebanon. In this article, the author examines this influence through a number of interviews, observations and narratives. Florian Sonntag more»

The Guy’s Guide to Feminism - Lecture and panel discussion

- Renowned American sociologist, researcher on men and masculinity, author and self-proclaimed feminist, Michael Kimmel, together with his co-author, Michael Kaufmann, seek to find answers to this, for some, provocative question. Written tongue in cheek and entertainingly, Michael's short stories and instructions in “Guy's Guide to Feminism” – garnished with jokes and comics – illustrates why feminism not only brightens up the lives of women but is also beneficial to men.  more»

Women and Political Leadership: Numbers and Beyond

- As Kenyan women push for a mechanism to actualize the two thirds provision, it is important to think not just about the quantity but also the quality of their leadership. In this regard, we ask:-What is the agenda that women are bringing into leadership?; Is it an agenda that can translate into a change in women’s lived realities?; and what is the connection between women’s access to leadership, having a sound agenda and remaining accountable to the women constituency?  more»

GENDER KICKS 2011

-  From January 26 to June 17 Germany is hosting the FIFA World Cup 2011 – the 6th Women's Word Cup. The Gunda Werner Institute is playing along by providing background information and insights. more»

Women's Voices, Women's Choices - 100 years International Women’s Day

- What are the achievements in the battle for more gender equality, what are the hopes and dreams women having nowadays? Which challenges and obstacles need women to overcome when seeking for their rights and their self-determination? We have asked our female partners from around the world about their viewpoints concerning this special anniversary. more»