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Women, Peace and Security Sounds Hollow in the Arab World – Now It's Time for Real Change

Twenty-five years after its creation, the Women, Peace and Security agenda sounds hollow in the Arab World. Our author argues for radical action – to finally place women at the helm of the institutions that claim to champion them.

Lina AbiRafeh

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Mzia Amaghlobeli receives the Sakharov Prize

Statement

We warmly congratulate Mzia Amaghlobeli on receiving the Sakharov Prize. The online newspapers Batumelebi and Netgazeti, which she co-founded and runs, are among Georgia's most important independent media outlets.

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Global Public Debt: Will Reforms Come Soon?

Analysis

This year's fall meeting of the IMF and World Bank has shown that the global debate on debt seems to be slowly changing. So will there soon be concrete reforms that will relieve the debt burden on poorer countries in particular and enable climate-resilient financing overall?

Sarah Ribbert

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Events

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May

MACHT

Exhibition Monday, 25. May 2026 – Monday, 22. June 2026 in Berlin

Exhibition
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June

Risks and Opportunities in PeaceTech: The Need for a People-Centered Approach

International Conference Wednesday, 03. June 2026 in Vienna

at Geneva Peace Forum Meets Vienna
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June

Strong Partners, Stable World

Panel discussion Monday, 08. June 2026 in Berlin

Why Germany, Korea, and Japan Must Stand Together
Livestream
09

June

Secur(itis)ed Cyberspace: The Promise and the Risk of Digital Sovereignty

Discussion series Tuesday, 09. June 2026 in Vienna

Human Security Salon 9
09

June

Echoes Across The Atlantic

Film presentation and talk Tuesday, 09. June 2026

Memory in Dialogue
Livestream
10

June

World Bank & Co: Energy Transition and Human Rights in Asia

Event Wednesday, 10. June 2026

The role of Development Banks
Livestream

Regions

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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

Limiting Space for Civil Society in Afghanistan: the implications of policies and legislations on NGOs

Report

Emergence of diverse and inclusive Civil Society organizations, such as NGOs and associations are among the mentionable gains during the last two decades of Afghanistan history. Nevertheless, beside increasing threats of insecurity, NGOs are constantly faced with challenges of laws and policies.

Abdul Wahed Zia Moballegh

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Imagine that by releasing a single fly into the wild you could genetically alter all the flies on the planet. This is the terrifyingly powerful premise behind gene drives: a new and controversial genetic engineering technology that can permanently alter an entire species by releasing one bioengineered individual. Civil society groups are alarmed by this newfound ability to reshape the natural world.

Perspectives Southeastern Europe #3: 'International Community' and the Limits of External Intervention

Magazine

Any international intervention has crucial limits: It can change the rules of the game, but it cannot empower local players. The articles collected in this issue of Perspectives Southeast Europe tell stories about the current challenges of international intervention in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia.

Climate Justice: The international momentum towards climate litigation

More and more individuals, communities, organisations and countries are considering climate litigation as 21 years of talks within UNFCCC have resulted in inadequate climate action. Climate litigation has seen tremendous progress worldwide as recent successful cases against different governments show. This report assesses current and pending climate litigation in the light of the Paris Agreement.

Keely Boom, Julie-Anne Richards

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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Go to Heimatkunde

Heimatkunde is the migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Go to the GWI

The Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (GWI) pools gender policy and feminist topics.

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We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues and, at the same time, by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are beset by harsh repression.

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Recent Articles

Women, Peace and Security Sounds Hollow in the Arab World – Now It's Time for Real Change

Mzia Amaghlobeli receives the Sakharov Prize

Global Public Debt: Will Reforms Come Soon?

Recent Specials

Events

MACHT

Risks and Opportunities in PeaceTech: The Need for a People-Centered Approach

Strong Partners, Stable World

Secur(itis)ed Cyberspace: The Promise and the Risk of Digital Sovereignty

Echoes Across The Atlantic

World Bank & Co: Energy Transition and Human Rights in Asia

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Lebanon’s Descent Into The Abyss

Limiting Space for Civil Society in Afghanistan: the implications of policies and legislations on NGOs

Publications

Reckless Driving: Gene drives and the end of nature

Perspectives Southeastern Europe #3: 'International Community' and the Limits of External Intervention

Climate Justice: The international momentum towards climate litigation

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

Our Newsletters

Recent Articles

Women, Peace and Security Sounds Hollow in the Arab World – Now It's Time for Real Change

Mzia Amaghlobeli receives the Sakharov Prize

Global Public Debt: Will Reforms Come Soon?

Recent Specials

Events

MACHT

Risks and Opportunities in PeaceTech: The Need for a People-Centered Approach

Strong Partners, Stable World

Secur(itis)ed Cyberspace: The Promise and the Risk of Digital Sovereignty

Echoes Across The Atlantic

World Bank & Co: Energy Transition and Human Rights in Asia

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Lebanon’s Descent Into The Abyss

Limiting Space for Civil Society in Afghanistan: the implications of policies and legislations on NGOs

Publications

Reckless Driving: Gene drives and the end of nature

Perspectives Southeastern Europe #3: 'International Community' and the Limits of External Intervention

Climate Justice: The international momentum towards climate litigation

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

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