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.

The Anne Klein Women's Award 2013 went to Lepa Mlađenović, feminist activist and intellectual from Serbia. The award was presented on 1 March 2013 in Berlin. 

The jury awards the Anne Klein Women's Prize 2014 to the Mexican women's activist Imelda Marrufo. She is a remarkable fighter for women's rights, who politically and personally campaigns for the prosecution of feminicide and gender-based violence.

The first Anne Klein Women's Award of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation was presented to Nivedita Prasad, lecturer and activist for women's and human rights, on 2 March 2012.

With conventional oil production in decline, the global oil industry is investing heavily in dirtier and riskier forms of oil and also in unconventional resources, such as tar sands, and oil shale. All are difficult and costly to produce, usually more carbon intensive than conventional oil and may have calamitous long-term impacts on the local environment.