Global Cooperation Dossier 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.
Queer Feminist Perspectives On Political Homophobia And Anti-Feminism In The Middle East And Europe Konferenz This two-day digital conference, organized by the Humboldt University of Berlin’s Department of Diversity and Social Conflict in cooperation with Brown University and the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, aims to bring together researchers, activists, and community organizers to discuss how discourses on gender and sexuality have evolved in the Middle East and Europe amid the rise of far-right and authoritarian movements.
Role of central banks calls for rigorous societal debate Speech As well as in 2008, the very necessary, unavoidable actions of central banks now in the Covid-19 crisis have massive side effects: cheap money is fostering asset price inflation, fueling inequalities. At the same time, central banks are still disregarding climate risk in the way they treat fossil assets as collateral. Barbara Unmüßig
Lebanon’s Descent Into The Abyss Commentary The biggest uprising in the country’s history, a devastating explosion in Beirut a year ago, a global pandemic, and now one of the worst socio-economic crises in the world. In the last two years, Lebanon has been transformed beyond recognition, has unraveled beyond limits. Samer Frangie
Samer Frangie Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut, Lebanon sf20@aub.edu.lb
Truly Indispensable! The Geneva Refugee Convention at 70 Commentary The Geneva Refugee Convention turned 70. Hardly anyone feels like celebrating in view of the many violations internationally, but the occasion offers the opportunity to strongly support the Convention’s principles in face of all hostilities, because it stands for nothing less than the protection of refugees. Kirsten Krampe
