Democracy

The criminalization of abortion, one of the many forms of violence against women, is the main cause of preventable maternal deaths in El Salvador. 

Though there is still no public debate about Feminicide in France, recent legislation has begun to recognize gender-based murder but it is far from a priority for French authorities.

Denying women their sexual and reproductive rights, leads directly to preventable maternal mortality and feminicide suicide.

Discriminating stereotypes and prejudices from the justice authorities in Colombia as well as the failure to identify feminicides impede truthful records on violence against women. 

The voices of the “Women’s Spring” in Brazil are rising, but government policies thwart any progress made towards the eradication of violence against women.

For decades the feminist movement has claimed that women are killed for the fact of being women. The UN call for States to establish a “Femicide Watch” is a huge step in the right direction.

What are the limitations of feminicide databases? What new perspectives are developed by women’s movements? What impact do they have on the State? 

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The outcome of the legislative elections in Austria will have repercussions on different levels. A look both into the national and European level unveils what is at stake for LGBTI rights.

From October 9 – 13, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union organised a capacity building for the post-Brexit generation under the motto “Why we’re stuck and how we want to get out of this”. 15 young Europeans discussed different aspects of the current challenges the EU is facing and developped concrete strategies for possible solutions. The diversity of the group not only lay in the wide geographical range of the participant’s home countries but also in their professional background: university students, PhD-candidates, researchers, activists and politicians as well as young people working in the fields of public administration, economics and international relations