The Istanbul Convention: A Chronicle of the Feminist Struggle Published: 5 October 2020 Article International treaties also give certain leverage to civic actors and women’s movement in Turkey in their efforts to overcome entrenched resistance to policy and practice changes. Since the Convention’s inception, women’s organisations in Turkey have been actively struggling for effective implementation and pushing public authorities to adopt women-friendly policies by making direct references to the Convention’s provisions. By Selime Büyükgöze
Feminist Revolutionaries Published: 24 September 2020 Call for Contributions Kohl Journal has announced that it has opened its platform to feminists wishing to write and reflect about unfolding revolutions. The call is open to submissions about historical and current feminist organizing in revolutionary times, from Lebanon to Iraq, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Kurdistan, West Asia and North Africa in general, and the Global South.
Can feminists be blamed for Corona? Published: 26 June 2020 Right-wing extremists and konservatives try to blame the increased spreading of Covid-19 in Spain on the 08th of March demonstrations. Statistics dismantle this hypothesis as invalid and as antifeminist political tactics, with witch they try to hide the true cause of the problem, which is the weak health care system. By Kirsten Achtelik
A roadmap for a feminist internet policy Published: 17 March 2019 Article The public space of the internet is a far more hazardous place for women and LGBTI people than for other groups. We must defend and expand it as a free space. By Francesca Schmidt
The website of the project “She is an expert” has been launched Published: 14 March 2019 Database with female experts On March 14, 2019 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Moscow have officially launched the website of the project “She is an expert”, which is a database with female experts from a variety of fields, from IT to cinema, gastronomy, and decolonial philosophy.
A feminist peace in Colombia? Published: 14 February 2019 Analysis The inclusion of a gender perspective in the Colombia's peace agreement: past, present, and future. By Catalina Ruiz-Navarro
Canada’s feminist vision for the G7 and beyond Published: 12 February 2019 Analysis How to lobby the G7 countries to implement feminist policies? Canadian civil society organizations are pushing participation from the global south to highlight voices often not heard. By Beth Woroniuk
Gender, sexuality, power Published: 19 November 2018 Introducing Al-Jumhuriya’s new “Gender, Sexuality, and Power” series, Karam Nachar outlines the intellectual and moral ethos of the initiative, and argues for the urgency of placing gender and sexuality at the center of the political conversation in the Middle East and beyond. By Karam Nachar
Lucetta Scaraffia Is Trying to Fight Catholic Patriarchy from the Inside Published: 5 November 2018 The editor of Women Church World, a monthly magazine published by the Vatican, believes that change is coming to Catholicism. By Elizabeth Barber
For Whom The Bells Toll: Not for Feminists, or Civil Society! Published: 12 June 2017 Whose voices are represented in speeches and conferences about women's economic empowerment? As Priti Darooka reports on her experience at this year's W20 Summit in Berlin, there seems to be a disconnect between renowned business conference spaces and grassroots feminist discourses. By Priti Darooka
