Feminism

With the new Feminism Now! Award for Feminist Activism, which comes with a prize of 10,000 euros, the Heinrich Böll Foundation honors courageous feminists. Nominate a candidate for the 2027 award by August 31, 2026.

The 2026 Anne Klein Women's Award goes to Senegalese women's rights activist Awa Fall-Diop. As a pan-African feminist, she has been campaigning for gender equality for decades, often at the expense of her personal freedom.

Environmental and climate crises are not gender neutral. They disproportionately affect people already facing multiple forms of discrimination. If feminist environmental policy is to extend beyond the effects on women, it needs to combine gender and ecological expertise. This dossier features a selection of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's contributions over recent decades to international debates on environmental and gender justice.  

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?

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.

Feminist Leadership approaches have the potential to put traditionally marginalised communities front and centre, including for example communities of colour, LGBTQI+ people and people with disabilities.

The Turkish lawyer and women's rights activist Cânân Arın receives the Anne Klein Women's Award 2021. The lawyer has been campaigning for women's rights and self-determination for over 40 years.