The situation in Bahrain calls for human rights activism - Interview with Maryam Al Khawaja

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Maryam Al Khawaja is a 23 year-old human rights activist from Bahrain. She has been the Head of Foreign Relations at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights since September 2010. Read about the human right situation in Bahrain.

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Working Group's 'No Justification for Polygamy' Campaign Sparks Discourse Nationally

- The Working Group for Equality in Personal Status Issues, a coalition of women's and human rights groups that works to promote the status of Palestinian women citizens of Israel, has just concluded the first round of its campaign against polygamy ─ a project supported by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Israel office since 2008. Yotam Keduri more»

Short film: I will not talk

- The campaign Combating Violence Against Women “Life without Violence and Discrimination is Possible” has been started by ten women organizations and hundreds of activists in eight Arab countries in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Foundation. Young directors were targeted as agents of change using alternative social media to lobby for combating violence against women in Egypt. See one of these produced short films here. more»

Tahrir Transformation

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A testimony from a young woman who was in Midan Al Tahrir in Cairo during the revolution in Egypt.

Fatima more»

The Post-Oslo Palestine and Gendering Palestinian Citizenship under Occupation

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The article describes both the difficulties and opportunities confronting women’s organisations in the after math of the first Palestinian Authority after the signing of the Oslo Agreements on 1993.

Islah Jad more»

Time Will Tell - The Impact of the Katzav Ruling from a Feminist Perspective

-  On the morning of December 30, 2010, the transformation of Israeli consciousness reached one of its peaks. That morning, the district court convicted former state president Moshe Katzav of serial sexual violence. After four consecutive years of struggle by women's organizations, after a struggle that began with a dubious glance at the complainants against the serial sex offender from the presidential residence, the head of the judges' panel declared that the man is a rapist and a sexual harasser. By Dorit Abramovitch more»

10th Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325

- On October 31, 2000 the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security.” This resolution provides that women be adequately represented on all levels in peace building processes and in the making of security policies.
Ten years after the adoption of UN Resolution 1325, the Gunda Werner Institute (GWI) of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in cooperation with the German Women’s Security Council and Peace Women Across the Globe, hosted an international conference in Berlin to examine the implementation of the resolution.
Anat Saragusti, a board member of Itach-Maaki - Women Lawyers for social Justice, supported in its 1325 implementation efforts by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Israel office, was invited to the conference to present the Israel case study at the conference in Berlin on October 28th, 2010. Anat Saragusti more»

Gaining Public Transportation, Arab Women in Israel Make History

- August 11, 2010 - Israel's Transportation Ministry announced in July that for the first time in Israel's history, public transportation services will be offered to Arab locales. "History in the Arab Israeli Sector" read a press release issued by the Ministry. This is an unprecedented success for the rural Arab women who fought for mobility in their localities over the course of six years, through the project "Women Demand Mobility" initiated and facilitated by Kayan - Feminist Organization, and supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Dr. Bettina Suleiman more»

Jewish and Jewish-Palestinian Feminist Organizations in Israel

- This report published by the Israel office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation is a first of its kind in-depth exploration of the contemporary feminist movement in Israel. The report focuses on Jewish and joint Jewish-Palestinian feminist organizations in Israel and includes a mapping section of 46 organizations (available in Hebrew only) and an analysis of the trends and characteristics of the feminist NGO field in Israel (available in Hebrew, English and Arabic). more»

Offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Middle East

- The Heinrich Böll Foundation has offices in Tel Aviv (Israel), Ramallah (Palestine) and in Beirut (Lebanon). more»