United Nations

International human rights law and the rights of trans people. The Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 reflects on how international law has evolved in this area.

The world needs more women leaders and men standing up for gender equality, UN Chief Antonio Guterras re-iterated at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that held its 61st annual session in New York from 13-24 March, 2017.

Together with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the Heinrich Böll Foundation organized the international conference „Religion Revisited - Women’s rights and the political instrumentalisation of religion“. Here you can find the presentations of the conference speakers, reports of the working groups as well as some visual impressions of the conference.

Religion continues to have a public dimension throughout the world, and from the point of view of women’s rights to equality, there is much at stake in how religion and politics intertwine. Therefore, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, in close cooperation with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), launched a research project which explored the effects of this blending of religion and politics on women’s rights and gender equality.