Gender Policies

The Heinrich Böll Foundation has offices in Tel Aviv (Israel), Ramallah (Palestine) and in Beirut (Lebanon).

The Heinrich Böll Foundation has offices in the region Central America/Mexico/Cuba (Mexico City and San Salvador), in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) and in Cono Sur (Santiago de Chile).

The Heinrich Böll Foundation has offices in Southern Africa (Cape Town, South Africa), in the region East and Horn of Africa (Nairobi, Kenya and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and in Nigeria (Lagos).

 The Heinrich Böll Foundation has offices in Bangkok (Thailand), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Lahore (Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan), New Delhi (India) und Beijing (China).

This videodocumentary shows how women on the countryside and in urban areas try to improve their situation by being geared to ecological principles. Further they are engaged in politics, too.

Mongolian women traditionally had to fulfill a double role:  They built Jurten, learned to ride and graze the cattle, just like the men. Furthermore they had to do the housekeeping. They gave birth to several children without bigger rest periods in between. Therefore, they are seen as „heroines of the steppe“.

Through her legal advice association the „Beijing Zhongze Women Legally Consultant & Service Centre“ the lawyer Guo Jianmei is committed to promoting women’s rights in China for over 15 years.

In order to strenghen the awareness of young people, to support the developement in the context of gender equality, the South Caucasus Office of the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation started an essay contest at several centres of university education.

Over the past 25 years, EMILY’s List, the first American political action committee devoted to helping progressive women gain electoral offices in the United States, has changed the gender dynamics of American politics. But more remains to be done. 

In April 1998, Sam Dillon, at the time a correspondent for the New York Times, wrote about a series of murders perpetrated against women in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Dillon noted how, as early as 1993, Oscar Máynez, a government criminologist, had pointed out that almost all the victims were slender young women with a cinnamon complexion and long hair. Máynez had suggested a serial killer was at work, but the authorities did not want to know.