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Resolution 1325 in El Salvador: Shifts from Human to Militarized Security

El Salvador’s commitment to UN Resolution 1325 faces a crossroads: Past progress is now at risk as President Bukele’s growing militarization threatens women’s rights and equality, reviving echoes of the country’s war-torn past.

Gloria Guzmán Orellana

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A Shared Green Future: Why the EU and China Need Each Other in the Energy Transition

Analysis

Diversification strategies in green technology must be technology-specific rather than uniformly applied. Balancing openness with resilience will allow the EU to mitigate supply risks while leveraging China’s scale and innovation capacity.

Belinda Schäpe

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China and the EU: Partnering and Competing in the Global Net Zero Transition

Analysis

To strenghten their joint leadership in global decarbonization, the EU and China should counter growing fragmentation by aligning clean tech supply chains, harmonizing standards, and advancing triangular cooperation with the Global South.

Prof. Yu Hongyuan

Specials

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Events

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November

Stories of Freedom: Voices for Democracy and Human Rights

Film presentation and talk Friday, 14. November 2025 in Berlin

Films and discussion as part of the Berlin Freedom Week
17

November

The next strategic project in the Balkans?

Presentation of a study Monday, 17. November 2025 in Brussels

Study launch and discussion on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
18

November

Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians

Exhibition Tuesday, 18. November 2025 – Tuesday, 16. December 2025 in Berlin
18

November

Resilience and reforms in Ukraine at wartime: The role of local self-government

Conference Tuesday, 18. November 2025 – Wednesday, 19. November 2025 in Berlin

20th Annual Conference of Kyiv Dialogue
Livestream
19

November

Can South Africa be a Green Iron hub?

Webinar Wednesday, 19. November 2025 in Cape Town
21

November

Global Voices Against Forgetting

Film presentation Friday, 21. November 2025 – Saturday, 22. November 2025 in Berlin

Films of Memory and Resistance

Regions

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Agroecology in Amazonia Strengthens Sustainable Food Systems

Analysis

In the Amazon, scientific agroecological knowledge is combined with the ancestral knowledge of traditional peoples and communities in forest management. This fusion results in several initiatives that stand as resistance to the advance of agribusiness.

Romier da Paixão Sousa, Tatiana Deane de Abreu Sá

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Korean Masculinity Must Move From Endless Proof to Shared Care

Analysis

South Korean men, trapped in the rigid ‘K-timeline’ from school to military to marriage, face endless pressure to prove their masculinity, fueling resentment toward women and radicalization. A transformation is needed, with care at its core.

Taehwan Kim

All Regions

There is hardly any other food that pollutes our environment and the climate as badly as meat. However, no government in the world currently has a concept of how meat consumption and production can be significantly reduced.

New Mines, Old Conflicts

Facts & Figures

The latest publication by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Sarajevo Office, maps eight key cases of socio-ecological conflicts linked to extractive industry projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina – from Majevica to Kupres and Ozren.

Majda Ibraković, Vladimir Topić

Water Atlas 2025

Atlas

The Water Atlas presents the complexity and urgency of global water issues in a visually compelling, accessible format - from the unequal distribution of water and industrial pollution to climate-linked water insecurity and geopolitical tensions.

All publications

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

All Atlases

Portals & Institutes

Go to GreenCampus

GreenCampus is our further education academy with offers in political management, personnel development as well as gender and diversity management.

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.

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

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

Resolution 1325 in El Salvador: Shifts from Human to Militarized Security

A Shared Green Future: Why the EU and China Need Each Other in the Energy Transition

China and the EU: Partnering and Competing in the Global Net Zero Transition

Specials

25th Anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

COP30: UN Climate Change Conference

EU-China Relations: Bound by Clean Tech or Divided by It?

25th Foreign Policy Conference

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Masculinities in Asia

Events

Stories of Freedom: Voices for Democracy and Human Rights

The next strategic project in the Balkans?

Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians

Resilience and reforms in Ukraine at wartime: The role of local self-government

Can South Africa be a Green Iron hub?

Global Voices Against Forgetting

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Agroecology in Amazonia Strengthens Sustainable Food Systems

Korean Masculinity Must Move From Endless Proof to Shared Care

Publications