Dossier

The freedom to decide over one’s own body and reproduction is still a privilege in today’s world. Whether or not to have children and how to raise them is a very personal choice, but also a choice with political implications: Who is encouraged or forced to have children? Who has access to resources and the means to have children? Whose parenthood is the subject of reappraisal or prevention? How do laws, policies, and public health programmes influence people’s access to reproductive self-determination?

April 6, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Bosnian War - the first war in Europe after World War 2. The reality in Bosnia and Herzegovina to this day is a succession of increasingly severe crises.

We are following the work of the IPCC, currently in the 7th Assessment Cycle, particularly with regard to the topics of net-zero, “overshoot” of 1.5 degrees, and high-risk geoengineering technologies such as solar geoengineering (SRM) and technological CO2 removal (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR).

Our focus on the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Among other things, the focus of this COP will be on raising ambition, significantly increasing climate finance, and the issue of financial compensation for climate damage and loss.

As an international player, development policy issues are of great importance to the Foundation and are considered in many topics. We devote intensive attention to them at the Berlin Forum for Global Cooperation.

The aggravating climate crisis has made the implementation of the Paris Agreement a central issue in German and European foreign policy. However, the integration of climate and foreign policy is still fraught with uncertainties. How to succeed with international climate cooperation? Our Foreign Policy Conference on January 13, 20 and 27 January 2022 was focused on these questions.

In crisis situations, the level of gender-based violence increases. During the Covid pandemic, multiple factors such as curfew or financial dependence have also increased the risk of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence.

This Dossier contains articles, emerged from the conference „Queer Feminist Perspectives on Political Homophobia and Anti-Feminism in the Middle East and Europe“, which brought together academics, activists and artists within a digital space.

With this page we want to create a contribution to the introduction to the topic of identity politics. What does the term actually mean, What is currently being discussed and where we want to head as a society?