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New Report on LGBTQI people in Europe and SRHR

This report gives an overview about the rarely included view of LGBTQI people on questions of sexual and reproductive healthcare rights.

CEDAW and Poland: Backtracking on Gender Equality

Analysis

Poland was among the first countries to ratify CEDAW. In which ways has the convention facilitated progress - and what is the impact of the backlash on the implementation of CEDAW?

By Liliana Religa

men with poster "men of quality respect womens equality"

Dealing with the cause, rather than trying to clear up afterwards: changing men’s attitudes to women and technology

"Digital technologies are created and sold primarily to generate profit; in contributing to economic growth, their use has been one of the most important reasons for increasing global inequalities."

By Tim Unwin

Online Freedom of Expression in the Era of #MeToo

"Despite attempts to reclaim the internet, it seems that the patriarchy is fighting back."

By Shmyla Khan

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http://eige.europa.eu/rdc/thesaurus

Created by the European Institute for Gender Equality, this Gender Glossary and Thesaurus provides a helpful overview of issues and terms concerning gender democracy.

For a #WebWithoutViolence

Many Worlds, Many Nets, Many Visions

Publication

The collection makes space for voiced that are marginalized and largly invisible in the internet. The authors look at discrimination and hierarchical structures in the internet and make suggestions for a more emancipated and antidiscriminatory approach.

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The struggle of the LGBTIQ* community to achieve visibility on TV and social networks

E-Paper

To use platforms and coming out- or not to? How to balance between the desire for a presence to share experiences on the one hand and being firmly attached to their family’s values? This is a question that many LGBTIQ* people in Lebanon face.

Peace & Security

Towards Gender Sensitive Media Coverage of Violence Against Women and Femicide/Feminicide

A feminist critique of the atomic bomb

Young People Do Not Register a Slap Across the Face as Violence

Women and Revolution: The Protests in 1969 After Entering the Period of "Normalization" in Czechoslovakia

Stories that reveal pain - #ISpeakUp movement in North Macedonia

From weirdoes to political actors - the journey of Slovak gender ideology rhetoric

Digitalisation is not just bounded to technology, it affects our society at large

Youth voices in Internet Governance – visibility beyond tokenism?

The Portals to the World are Locked for Millions

Broadening the just transition debate

Report

At the end of June, in the Warsaw office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, an incredible group of women met. A dozen female activists from two coal-mining regions – the Konin area and Silesia – came together to discuss how to make the voices of women better heard in the debate about ecological transformation. In order to find answers, they used a lot of their own wisdom and… Lego bricks.

By Piotr Trzaskowski

Women and Men in the Ukrainian Energy Sector: Equal Rights and Opportunities or a Sector of Discrimination?

Last week, presentation of the research “Women and Men in the Ukrainian Energy Sector” was held. The research was conducted during 2018 and early 2019 to identify possible ways to resolve the problem of gender imbalance in the Ukrainian energy sector in order to ensure its sustainable and socially fair development.

The research was conducted by the state institution “Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” at the initiative, and with the support, of Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv — Ukraine Office and Women’s Energy Club of Ukraine with active facilitation and support of the apparatus of the Government Commissioner for Gender Policy.

Here, we publish key outtakes of the research presentation.