Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy

📣 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀* 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 | Today, when we fight again against trans #criminalization laws, anti-#LGBTIQ+ policies, and anti-right narratives we must remember that #trans liberation is inseparable from broader struggles against oppression—whether that oppression comes from far-right movements or exclusion within feminist and #queer spaces. If we remain silent, we are complicit in taking away trans rights.  As right-wing movements criminalize trans rights, the next on the list shall be #reproductive rights. Let us start with us, let's challenge transphobia that exists within some left and #feminist movements by actively countering anti-trans rhetoric within feminist and leftist spaces. ✊🏽 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲, 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 💜

𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 ✊🏽 ✨ In this special edition #newsletter, we are featuring stories of #resistance and young #feminists’ perceptions of the world, written by Sonia Hedhili, Esther Mwema, Damayanti S., Nirvana Bhandary, and Angela Boshkoska. 📣 The #call for new contributions to the #VoicesOfResistance dossier (in special format) will be published in the first week of April through our newsletter and LinkedIn page! 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d2G45iJQ

Hello, #feminist community! ✊🏽 We believe in the strength of solidarity and collaboration. Your support means a lot to us, and it helps us to amplify our mission and the voices of those we try to convey! 🩷 You can continue to support us by following our journey on: 📣 Instagram: https://lnkd.in/dQcJKE8P 📣 BlueSky: https://lnkd.in/dTuX8taa (we are not bothered with Twitter/X anymore, for obvious reasons) 📣 LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/d4p5RUQ9 📣 Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/d2G45iJQ 📣 Website: https://lnkd.in/dsqCyKx9 To continue to foster both-sided and meaningful #connections, we invite you to share in the comments section: 🔹 links to your (or your organization's) social media channels, so we can keep track of each other's feminist work 🔹 links to the recent resources, #research papers, articles, publications, factsheets, etc. 🔹 short description of your (or your organization's) #newsletter and a link to subscribe #Unity is our superpower! 💚 Illustration: Nicole Pavlov for Fine Acts

🟣🟢 In the framework of International Women's Day, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung offices across #LatinAmerica have gathered diverse voices, concerns and proposals in response to the continent's recent setbacks, gaps and unresolved issues. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘂𝘀. ⚠️ Not by chance, the global far-rights positions take #feminisms as their main enemy. They understand their transformative power and feel threatened by it. ⚠️ Over our continent's bodies and lands, they aim to create a world of super-rich for the few. But feminisms do not back down and fight in every corner of the world with the strength of networks, memory, and life. Explore powerful stories from #Mexico, #ElSalvador, #Colombia, #Brazil, #Argentina, and #Chile from migrant women’s rights to dignified menstruation, reproductive justice, feminist economy, political and racial violence, and the ongoing fight for equality across Latin America. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹. ✊🏽 ✍️ Read the full dossier ⬇️

𝗙𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦, 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘! 💚 ✊🏽 | Notes from #CSW69 experience 📣 We are truly excited and proud of everything we have accomplished together with our amazing colleagues, fellows, and allies for CSW69! More than anything, we will keep the #solidarity we have fostered together close to our hearts, and we can’t wait to continue this journey with all of you. 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨: The report with all the insights and observations from #CSW69 made by feminists selected for the Feminist Foreign and Development Policy #Fellowship, Sara Méndez Niebles, Soumya Mishra, Gunel Madadli, Lakshita Kanhiya, Ruken Ay Adın, Agustina Correa, Alinafe Irene Nonhlanhla Gama, together with Derya Binisik, Director of the Global Unit for #Feminism and #Gender Democracy, as well as Ivette Félix Padilla and Lena Elsa Droese, German Youth Observers at CSW69! 📣 We are also sharing with you some brief, but impactful statements from the report, which have been wonderfully expressed by the incredible #feminists mentioned above: 1️⃣ Nothing for us without us. 2️⃣ Women belong here, there, and everywhere. 3️⃣ The poison of patriarchy is back.  4️⃣ Others crawled so we can walk. 5️⃣ Feministas, they are everywhere! 6️⃣ Youth as Architects of Change! 7️⃣ For peace, security, and development.  8️⃣ We need feminist foreign policy! 9️⃣ Solidarity is the word we should all work for. 🔟 Not funding feminists is a risky business. Read the full updates/report here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d5vrssqm The Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Fellowship project is led by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC. 💚 Illustration: Ana Filipa dos Santos Lopes for Fine Acts

🚨 Under the Trump administration, crucial #US foreign aid programs have been defunded, affecting economic #development, humanitarian assistance, #peace and #security, #health services, #education, #environment, and #democracy. 🚨 Other countries like the Netherlands, France, and the UK have also made cuts to development #aid to focus on projects that benefit their national #security interests. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗟 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦? Read the analysis written by Merima Šišić and Derya Binisik, Program Coordinator and Director of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy! ⬇️

𝗡𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 ✊🏽 🟠 Women in Nepal have resisted oppression for decades, both through personal acts of defiance as well as participation in creative expressions of protest. In this article, Nirvana Bhandary interviews Bhawana Raut and Kailash Rai about their passion for #activism, the nuances of #feminism within the country and their vision for a more equitable future. Bhawana and Kailash’s perspectives add to a collective vision of empowerment within #Nepal’s feminist movement and allow us to gather strength and #solidarity for a #protest culture that has evolved in millennial era. #VoicesOfResistance

Parallel #𝗖𝗦𝗪𝟲𝟵 event 📣 |  𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 - 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 / #𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 | Organised by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Office Kyiv-Ukraine and Ukrainian Feminist Network 📅 18th of March 2025 ⏰ 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm 📍 Salvation Army, 221 E. 52nd St., New York, NY 10022 By highlighting voices from the ground, this event seeks to contribute to epistemic #justice and create a space to discuss plural visions of #peace and #security from a #feminist perspective. Speakers: 🔸 Oksana Potapova, a researcher, human rights defender, women’s rights activist, and co-founder of the Ukrainian Feminist Network 🔸 Kateryna Pryimak, Head of Veteranka movement, a veteran, and a combat medic.  🔸 Valentyna Beliakova, Head of Women's Energy Club of Ukraine The event will be moderated by Galyna Kotliuk, Gender Democracy Program Coordinator at Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Office Kyiv-Ukraine 💚 This event does not require registration, but don't hesitate to contact our colleagues Galyna Kotliuk and/or Anna Antonina Ł. and give them the info if you are planning to be part of the event! Find their contacts on the link below! ⬇️

🚨 ✊🏽 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗞𝗬 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦! Yesterday, Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy (us) hosted a #CSW69 side event 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗷𝗶𝗻𝗴+𝟯𝟬: 𝗘𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, co-created with Miriam Mona Mukalazi and moderated by Xenia Kellner. 💚 We discussed with our panelists, how we can move the money more directly to #feminist movements and actors on the ground, especially in current times of defunding and rapidly shrinking spaces for civil society. 🔴 More detailed report from the event is written by Derya Binisik, feminist leader of Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d5vrssqm A lot of appreciation for our panelists: 🔸 Inken Denker, Head of Division for Feminist Development Policy at Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) 🔸 Vanessa T. (she/her), Program Manager at the Black Feminist Fund 🔸 Jana Ongoma Anguka-Schwerdtfeger, Head of International Programs with medica mondiale e.V. 🔸 Lakshita Kanhiya, Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Fellow Big thank you also goes to Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (NY office) for sharing their space with us!

Our amazing #FFDP fellows in #NewYork attending #CSW69! 💚 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC ⬇️ They are sharing their insights, thoughts and snippets from the debates happening on the ground and in real time! 🧐 Follow the updates here: https://lnkd.in/d5vrssqm Stay tuned, as we will be sharing more! 🩵 Sara Méndez Niebles Soumya Mishra Gunel Madadli Lakshita Kanhiya Ruken Ay Adın Natasha Boshkova Alinafe Irene Nonhlanhla Gama Agustina Correa Ouafa Haddioui Channeang Chim Olha Yashichenko