Gender Policies

Heinrich Böll Foundation and Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre launch a shadow report on shelters for abused women as an advocacy tool to mobilise greater support and resources from government.

In South Africa, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. The Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre together with the Heinrich Böll Foundation have unveiled a mural in Johannesburg to highlight the need for the state and communities to improve their response to violence against women.

Zamila Bunglawala explores the differences and commonalities of empowerment for young Muslimas in the world of work in Qatar and England. The author discusses how Muslimas, as a majority in Qatar, and a minority in England, realise their career plans.

Sabina Iqbal shares in her contribution her experiences as a Deaf Asian Muslima in the UK. With a perspective on the intersection of gender, »Race«, religion and ability based discrimination she describes her life’s path, those individuals and institutions that supported her in achieving her goals, and touches upon the strategies necessary for the empowerment of Disabled People of Color.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has a mandate to fund mitigation and adaption action in developing countries while "taking a gender-sensitive approach."  With the Fund Board set to discuss and decide the vision, objectives and business model for the Fund, this paper makes a case for mainstreaming gender into the processes and financing of the GCF in conjunction with these decisions.

This is a publication of materials, a small selection of the papers presented by researchers and activists at the International Conference – Manifold Angles of Gender: Looking through a Magnifying Glass, organized and hosted by the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

The Euro-Med conference of civil society organizations and networks “Women’s Rights and Democracy Building: Promoting a common agenda for equality between women and men” took place on 7 – 8 June in Amman, Jordan. The Heinrich-Böll-Foundation was among the supporters of the conference, which was organized by the European Feminist Initiative IFE-EFI and other organizations from the MENA region among them Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s partners Arab Women’s Organization (AWO) from Jordan and Women’s Studies Centre (WSC) from Palestine.

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the National Commission on the Status of Women jointly organized a one day round table meeting on 12th April, 2013 where more than 22 eminent women from civil society, women organizations, gender experts, media, EU and government bodies participated and actively took part in the discussion.

The Toolkit shares information, tools, activities, and skills building ideas and methods to support organisations and individuals to better understand the needs of working with men to address sexual and gender based violence and the spread of HIV in collaboration with women’s rights organisations in Africa.

With a supportive Constitution, leadership that intends to affirm women and youth, and almost 20% representation in the 11th Parliament thanks to affirmative action, could this be considered a new dawn for Kenyan women?