The Future is now! On the relevance of the Beijing Platform for Action today Comment Equal power for women, a life with less violence and more justice are the goals that were set 25 years ago at the 4th World Conference on Women and in the Beijing Platform for Action. So far, gender equality has never been achieved. By Barbara Unmüßig
The Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis In 2015 Sweden announced to adopt a feminist foreign policy, making it the first country in the world to implement this aspect in the work of Swedish foreign affairs. What happened since then? By Johan Frisell
From Transition to Transformation - Women, Peace & Security Afghan Women have had a long journey in terms of their rights and socio-political participation since the Taliban downfall in 2001. As Afghanistan has just entered into a new decade of transformation, the main questions related to women, peace and security remain: What has been built to ensure women’s protection and participation over the last decade? And what strategic approach could consolidate gender equality in the decade to come? By Abdullah Athayi
Our unique journey to implement UNSCR Resolution 1325 in Israel Last December, the Israeli Government decided to establish a governmental committee to create a National Action Plan in the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The resolution calls on UN member states to protect women from violence, increase the participation of diverse women in decision-making bodies, and for the prevention of armed conflict. This video and the text that follows tells the story of the journey of civil society NGOs to create an Action Plan for Israel. By Anat Thon-Ashkenazy and Netta Loevy
Beijing + 20 in Morocco: where do we stand? While legislative and institutional progresses have been made in Morroco, the implementations of Beijing +20 often remain inadequate and below the citizens’ expectations due to a lack of budgetary resources or political willingness. By Salma Kadiri
Video: Beijing+20 in South Africa The Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southern Africa office spoke to five leading women’s rights activists on their perceptions of the challenges that women in South Africa face today and whether the Beijing Declaration, and South Africa’s commitment to it, remains relevant to addressing those challenges.
Institutional Mechanism for the Advancement of Women To preserve and implement the rights of women and girls, the Platform for Action has formulated strategic goals aimed at helping governments to entrench a gender equality perspective in every policy area. The goal is to guarantee women equal access to and full participation in power as well as in decision-making processes.
The Rise and Fall of Women's Economic Empowerment? How the Crisis Has Affected EU Gender Equality Policy The rejection of the gender equality strategy is an emblematic representation of tension in EU economic and social policies, which has concerned women’s advocates since the beginnings of the financial crisis. By Rosalind Cavaghan
Quotas for advisory committees, business, and politics: just more of the same? Over the last decades, norms, rules and processes of regulation have appeared with the goal of fostering gender equality. They take many forms, of which gender quotas are a very widespread and frequently used version. By Petra Meier
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?