Gender-based violence, participation in political and social processes and shrinking spaces: How do women's rights activists work under increasingly constrained circumstances in Cambodia?

Women's bodies are always the central target of conservative and fundamentalist ideology and practice. The individual rights are also shaped by social and cultural norms, legal conditions and, more than ever, also determined by reproductive technologies and medical offers. The essay by sociologist Christa Wichterich offers background information and analytical approaches from an international perspective.

Interview with Alicia Baier and Sophie G., who are both activists, on the occasion of International Safe Abortion Day.

Section 218 has been a topic of intense political debate ever since it was first incorporated in the Criminal Code of the German Empire on 15 May 1871. It has always been one of the most controversial paragraphs in German law, both legally and socially. In 1995, a compromise solution was found, but since then nothing more has changed. To find out why that is so, and work out what can be done about it, it’s worth taking a look back at the history of Section 218.

The “marea verde” – the “green tide” – has spread across the whole of Latin America. Can it make waves in Germany too?

Feminist movements that focus exclusively on abortion rights primarily represent the perspective of white, privileged women. Reproductive justice goes further, combining reproductive rights with social justice.

Looking back, now with Information Age lenses, 9/11’s aftermath lessons are full of virtues, yet to be capitalized.

While political and social avenues for free speech are limited and prohibited, Cambodian visual artists find limitless forms of creative expression to critically examine many complex urban, social and environmental concerns.