DR Congo: aiding and abetting violence. Criminal charges against manager of the German-Swiss Danzer Group The Danzer case is an example of European businesses working in conflict regions and profiting greatly from the brutal actions by the police, the army or paramilitary groups. Anna von Gall analyzes the international legal framework and urges Germany to pursue legislative clarification relating to due diligence requirements for foreign subsidiaries of European companies By Anna von Gall
Beijing +20 - Voices from Cambodia Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Barbara Lochbihler) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Conference, the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Camobida organized a roundtable workshop to examine the legacy of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women. 20 video statements were compiled during the event.
Beijing+20 - Across Areas The Platform for Action imagines a world where each woman and girl can exercise her freedoms and choices, and realize all her rights, such as to live free from violence, to go to school, to participate in decisions and to earn equal pay for equal work.
Beijing + 20: A Critical Reflection One cannot expect specific practical results from large global meetings like the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, as their purpose is entirely symbolic. But Beijing succeeded in mobilising world public opinion and in validating the issue of equal rights for women as an inalienable component of human rights. By Alena Wagnerová
Women in Armed Conflicts – Prosecuting Sexual and Gender based Crimes In the context of the Beijing +20 Review, the Gunda-Werner Institute and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) hosted an event focused on the achievements and remaining gaps with regard to one of the critical areas mentioned in the Beijing Platform for Action: Women in Armed Conflicts. By Gitti Hentschel
Northamerica In 2009, US President Barack Obama established the White House Council on Women and Girls. This committee ensures that domestic agencies promote the equality of women in their policies, programs and legislations. It is one of the direct results of the Fourth World Conference on Women and it continues the important work of institutions created 20 years ago, immediately after the Beijing conference.
Latin America In terms of implementation of the Beijing Platform significant shortcomings prevail, depending on the country. As a consequence, there is still a long way to go before discrimination and inequality are eliminated.
The Girl-child Girls constitute a social group most discriminated, offended, abused, injured and killed in the world – all too often simply because they are girls.
Women and the Environment Climate change, and its significance, is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As far back as twenty years ago, the Platform for Action called for the active participation of women in environmental decision-making. One reason: women and men are affected differently by the effects of climate change.
Women and the Media Today, we can see that digital media may have repeatedly changed forms of social interaction and self-portrayal in the virtual world, yet the new means and possibilities have done nothing to change the patriarchal power structures that prevail there.