Democracy & Human Rights

Systematic discrimination against women drives patterns of inequality and poverty. The G20 cannot achieve inclusive growth with gender-blind policies. Therefore, the G20 must reassess its entire agenda and, among other things, promote women's rights in employment, social protection, and fiscal policy.

Promises and delays - an account of the killings of Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola and its imputiny. Please note that this article is available only in German.

The EuroLat Parliamentary Assembly calls for effective action to end femicide.

The 7th Conference on Feminicide took place March 6 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.

The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung offices European Union and Russia invited activists of three Russian leading LGBT organisations (LGBT Network, LGBT Film Festival Side-by-Side and Coming Out).

With the Lisbon Treaty coming into force, the European Parliament's role is key. But is the EP well prepared for the new task? Barbara Lochbihler, MEP for the Greens/EFA group, takes a closer look at the stronger and weaker spots of the EP's policy.

Proposals for analysis and monitoring of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' "Cotton Field" Case sentence, regarding human rights violations committed by the Mexican State.

The purpose of the 6th Conference on Femicide/Feminicide was to identify the content that should be included in the new space for dialogue between the EU and CELAC on gender issues.

“Gender-related killings of women” is the expression that Rashida Manjoo, United Nations Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on Violence Against Women (VaW), has chosen for her 2012 report to name the most “extreme manifestation of existing forms of VaW”.

The conference took the opportunity to assess the current situation in Latin America and the implications of EU policies in this regard, and to formulate demands for concrete measures to be taken by EU institutions that are required to tackle feminicide in an effective and coherent manner. The main task of the Strategy Meeting that followed the fourth conference on feminicide in the European Parliament on 3 March 2011 was to define concrete activities to be undertaken in the period before the next EU and Latin American and Caribbean Summit that took place in Santiago de Chile in June 2012.