Asia

This short film by Ian White delivers insight into a women radio programme in Cambodia. Together with the Solidarity and Community Development Association the Heinrich Böll Foundation designed a training and radio programme to encourage women's participation in politics.

The Committee Topical Resolution on Burma of the European Green Party and remarks by Sabine Meyer.

A collection of essays on civil society in Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma focusing on the perspectives for pro-democracy and pro-change politics.

The Press review China comprises the online news coverage of International Herald Tribune, Reuters, Asia Times, China Daily and Peoples Daily Online. To receive the summaries as pdf files, please subscribe at asien@boell.de with the subject "Press review China".

The Asia Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation views and compiles the international news coverage of China and India on a biweekly basis. To receive summaries related to politics, economy and labour, environment, social rights as well as gender issues as pdf files, please send an e-mail to asien@boell.de.

The regional director of Heinrich Böll Foundation South East Asia comments on the EU's Myanmar (Burma) Country Strategy Paper 2007-2013. She proposes to engage with sub-national state actors and to partner with the civil society.

The three decades of conflict in Afghanistan have taken the lives of more than a million people and the country and its people have suffered the gravest violations of human rights.

Berlin, Juni 2007, 40 SeitenDownload (englisch)Bestellen: E-mail:info@boell.de

Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu visited Kabul in April, June, September 2007 and March 2008, working as a research consultant for Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Kabul Office (in cooperation with UNIFEM) and conducting training workshops, a lecture series as well as interviews with female and male parliamentarians and civil society members.