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The programme "Europe for Citizens" aims to make the European Union, its institutions, committees, workings, and representatives, more visible and comprehensible to Europe's citizens.

In 2007, the European Commission initiated the programme "Europe for Citizens", calling on all organisations engaged in European politics to pursue actively and persistently programmes suited to make the European Union, its institutions, committees, workings, and representatives, more visible and comprehensible to Europe's citizens.

On 6 March, the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation awarded the Anne Klein Women's Prize 2015 to the Kurdish woman Nebahat Akkoc for her active resistance against state and domestic violence and the defence of women's rights.

From December 1 to 12, the 20th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Lima, Peru. The Heinrich Böll Foundation is on site with a delegation. Our focus summarizes the Foundation's current work on climate policy.

On September 23, 2014, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is hosting a high level Climate Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York. High level representatives from politics, business and civil society are invited to participate. Our dossier gives an overview of the Foundation’s current work on climate politics.

Avani Tewari is a 19 year old law student from New Delhi. In this web dossier she will be giving her reflection on the main debates in the media after the elections and her personal impression of the political discussion every week.

Brazil will host the most expensive World Cup of all time. Around 85 percent of the expenses will be funded with public money. For the first time in history, a multitude of questions are being raised about the real meaning of an international mega-event for the host population. This web dossier was designed to add relevant data regarding the guarantee of people's rights and as offer for critical perspectives about the realities on the ground.

India finds itself in a difficult transformation process. This dossier strives to make the country in its diversity more tangible. And to correspond with the upcoming parliamentary elections, it also makes room for a variety of socio-political and economic policy analyses and debate, and aims to define India’s foreign policy role.

Dossier: The Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin held an international expert conference on the “Future of Arms Control”, jointly organized with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. We are now pleased to publish the conference proceedings.

Articles, video recordings, publications and podcasts of our annual foreign policy conferences of the last years.