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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Annual Report 2015 - Who wie are, what we want, how we work What we want.

Fostering democracy and upholding human rights, taking action to prevent the destruction of the global ecosystem, advancing equality between women and men, securing peace through conflict prevention in crisis zones, and defending the freedom of individuals against excessive state and economic power – these are the objectives that drive the ideas and ac- tions of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We maintain close ties to the German Green Party (Alliance 90/ The Greens) and as a think tank for green visions and projects, we are part of an international network encompassing partner projects in ap- proximately 60 countries. The Heinrich Böll Foundation works independently and nurtures a spirit of intellectual openness. We maintain a worldwide network with currently 31 international offices. We cooperate closely with 16 state-level Böll Foundations in each of ’s federal states, and we support talented, socio-politically engaged undergraduate and graduate stu- dents in Germany and abroad. We gladly follow Heinrich Böll’s exhortation for citizens to get involved in politics, and we want to inspire others to do the same. 

Sources and Allocation of Funding

The Heinrich Böll Foundation e.V. is mainly funded International through public grants. In 2015, the Foundation’s activities income increased by 7.2% and reached 57.6 million 42.99% euros (preliminary figures). Over two thirds of the Miscellaneous Foundation’s overall worldwide spending is targe­- expenses ted toward our program work and scholarship pro- 0.45% gram, and our international activities continue to account for the largest share of expenditures. While 2015 Total expenditures we increased investment in order to modernize­ our 55.237.882 euros IT equipment, material expenditures remained at Political Human (domestic division) last year’s level. 7.45% resources 25.32%

Scholarships, 17.56% additional 5.06% programs

Investment Material 1.17% expenditures Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Worldwide

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Africa Europe Latin America North America 1 Cape Town (South Africa) 12 Belgrade (Serbia) 23 Bogotá (Colombia)* 33 Washington (USA) 2 Abuja (Nigeria) 13 Berlin (Germany) 24 Mexico (Mexiko) 3 Nairobi (Kenia) 14 (Belgium) 25 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Russian Federation 4 Dakar (Senegal)* 15 Istanbul (Turkey) 26 San Salvador (El Salvador) 34 Moscow (Russia) 16 Kyiv () 27 Santiago de (Chile) Asia 17 (France) 5 Bangkok (Thailand) 18 Prague (Czech Republic) Middle East and North Africa 6 Kabul (Afghanistan) 19 Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 28 Beirut (Lebanon) * planned 7 () 20 Tbilisi (Georgia) 29 Ramallah (Palestine) 8 New Delhi () 21 Thessaloniki () 30 Rabat (Morocco) 9 Beijing () 22 Warsaw () 31 Tel Aviv () 10 Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 32 Tunis (Tunisia) 11 Yangon (Myanmar)

International Cooperation

In 2015, the Heinrich Böll Foundation received ap­ Middle East and proximately 22 million euros in funding from the North Africa Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and De­- Europe vel­opment, including roughly 900,000 euros for 19.9% measures to mitigate climate change in developing 32.5% countries. Approximately 185,000 euros in addi- 2015 tional funding from the ministry’s Transformation Expenditures for Partnership program was targeted toward projects international activities in Morocco and Tunisia, and roughly 100,000 euros 12.2% 27.327.328 euros* in special funding from the ministry’s One World, No Hunger initiative was directed toward projects Latin America *including foreign salaries in Kenya. 6.1% Our International Cooperation Division received Thematic 16.3% departments approximately 4.5 million euros from the Federal Asia Foreign Office. In addition, the Federal Foreign 13% Office provided roughly 360,000 euros in special funding for activities in Tunisia and Morocco. Africa funding totaling about 950,000 euros was targeted toward projects in the Middle East and North Africa as well as toward multi-re- gional projects in the Caucasus region and within the framework of the EcoFair Trade dialogue. Table of Contents

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Foreword 1

International Conflicts and Security 2

Democracy and Human Rights 9

The Great Transformation 14

Art and 18

Heinrich Böll House Langenbroich 19

Scholarship and Fellowship Program 20

Award Winners 21

Notable Guests 22

Addresses 23

Publication Information Published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, e.V. (registered association) Edited by: Susanne Dittrich Texts: Staff ot the Heinrich Böll Foundation Translated by: Kurt Klotzle Cover: Marta Bogdánska Design: State, Berlin Paper: 100% eco-friendly paper, non-chlorine bleach Number of copies: 1,000 Published in August 2016 Images: Stephan Röhl (if not indicated otherwise) This report is available free of charge from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin, Germany T +49–030–285 34–0 F +49–030–285 34–109 E [email protected] W www.boell.de/ en Foreword

Ralf Fücks Image: Julia Baier Barbara Unmüßig Image: Bettina Keller

The year 2015 came to a close with the adoption of Terrorist attacks – whether in Paris, Beirut, Turkey, the Paris Climate Agreement, which lent crucial mo- or Nigeria – are also occurring in and countries mentum to climate policy and global sustainability. where our offices carry out their work. Along with The Heinrich Böll Foundation will closely monitor the the shock and fear such attacks generate, we also implementation of both the as well face the political challenge of how to deal effectively as the Sustainability Goals contained in the UN’s with terror without sacrificing precisely those things 2030 Agenda. In addition, we will press forward that must be defended: namely freedom and funda- with a wide variety of activities to promote sustaina- mental democratic rights. bility in key policy areas such as energy, agriculture, In Germany, too, right-wing populists foment peo- mobility and urban development. ple’s fears at the expense of those who have fled their The social and environmental transformation of homelands hoping to find protection against war and our societies is certain to trigger disagreements over persecution. We oppose populism and are commit- Foreword conflicting goals. To resolve these disagreements ted to a common European refugee policy and the constructively, it is essential to have democratic pro- expansion of legal opportunities for immigration. cesses of deliberation and negotiation, democrati- Only if we forge alliances and work together with cally elected parliaments, independent media, and other democratic forces will we succeed in proving open spaces for civil society engagement. However, that democratic systems can take effective political these open spaces are being curtailed more and more action. Our foundation aims to contribute to a politi- around the world. As a political foundation with cal culture in which values such as human dignity, de- strong ties to civil society actors in our partner coun- mocracy, equal opportunity, self-determination, and tries, we are experiencing first-hand the massive pluralism are practiced actively and vibrantly. violation of fundamental democratic rights, along We would like to express our thanks to our part- with that make it nearly impossible to en- ners in Germany and abroad, to the members of our gage in political action. Despite these obstacles, our volunteer boards and commissions, and not least to international offices and our local partners are per- all our dedicated staff. They are the lifeblood of the forming outstanding work under extremely difficult Heinrich Böll Foundation’s successful work. conditions.

Berlin, March 2016

Ralf Fücks Barbara Unmüßig Presidents, Heinrich Böll Foundation International Conflicts and Security Policy The number of wars and the intensity of violent conflicts are on the rise again. Boko Haram inNigeria are tyrannizing people inseveral countries. The conflict advances by the terrorist forces of the “Islamic State” inSyria and Iraq International Conflicts, Security Policy, and the Future of Europe have exacerbated the civil war inSyria. Other militant Islamist groups such as light on conflicts and the forces shaping them, and we work jointly with abroad rights. We provide background information and host discussion forums that shed most to foster and expand democratic structures and civil societies, to secure the in Ukraine hasplaced asevere strain on relations between Russia and Europe in peaceful resolution of conflicts, and to promote policy-making based on human particular. Despite allof this –and precisely for this reason –we are doing our ut spectrum of partner organizations to identify ways to settle conflicts. der Sackgasse? der Civil war inSyria –efforts to finda political solution to the conflict Five years since the outbreak of the uprising against against uprising the of outbreak the since years Five ical solution. For example, in the spring of 2015 we 2015 of we spring in the example, For solution. ical organized the international conference “ conference international the organized going information on Syria: on the conditions facing facing conditions the on Syria: on information going a Revolution. In his keynote speech, Frederic C. Hof, C. Frederic speech, In his keynote a Revolution. analysis to shed light on the conflict. We provide on provide We conflict. the on light shed to analysis supply We can situation? in this take we can action t the population and on political and military develop military and political on and population the new on taken has brutality war’s the contrary, the On succeeded. have civilian population the for tion protec better provide to and conflict the resolve to intention of declarations many community’s tional interna So far, the of civilian none population. try’s dimensions again and again. As a foundation, what what afoundation, As again. and again dimensions ments. And we seek to identify paths toward apolit toward paths identify to seek we And ments. with our Syrian-German partner organization Adopt Adopt organization partner Syrian-German our with coun the on impact adevastating is having that war he Assad regime, Syria remains wracked by a bloody abloody by wracked Syria remains regime, Assad he

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------2 Die schwarze Macht Die schwarze Ever since the Lebanese government tightened its its tightened government Lebanese the Ever since flict. The conference also focused on the situation of situation the on focused also conference The flict. Nearly half of all Syrians have fled their home coun home their fled all of half have Syrians Nearly Supporting Syrian refugees in Lebanon Force. In the ensuing panel discussion with repre with discussion panel ensuing In the Force. lined how the United States and Europe can work to work can Europe and States United the how lined clude the event, Spiegel event, the clude former US special adviser for transition in Syria, out transition for adviser US special former and ways in which Germany can take action. To con action. take can Germany in which ways and Stabilization build aSyrian National help to gether and cannot in any way be a key to resolving the con the resolving to akey be way in any cannot and to present his new book on the Islamic State (titled (titled State Islamic the on book his new present to try. Up to two million refugees are living in Lebanon. living in Lebanon. are million refugees two Up to try. the region, it quickly became clear that Assad and his and Assad that clear became quickly it region, the sat down with Petra Steinen, a Dutch expert on Syria, on expert aDutch Steinen, Petra with down sat sentatives of Syrian civil society and experts from from experts and Syrian civil of society sentatives refugees in neighboring countries, EU refugee policy, EU refugee countries, in neighboring refugees regime constitute a fundamental part of the problem problem the of part afundamental constitute regime while conducting in Syria. research conducting while ) and to discuss his experiences his experiences discuss to ) and reporter Christoph Reuter Reuter Christoph reporter ------“Home”. The film premiered in October 2015 at the the 2015at October in “Home”. filmpremiered The Syria as long as they could and never wanted to leave. leave. to wanted never and could they as long Syria as communi building camps, Syria – are from Sawa Marta Bogdańska explores in her exhibit Exilium exhibit in her explores Bogdańska Marta Metro Al Medina theater in Beirut, with the direc the with in Beirut, theater Medina Al Metro Bogdańska’s portraits depict them with the objects objects the with them depict portraits Bogdańska’s

in terms of fostering integration and providing psy providing and integration fostering of in terms facilitate exchanges and communication between between communication and exchanges facilitate can be viewed online on our Beirut office’s website. office’s Beirut our on online viewed be can photographer that question is the This country? initiative, own their On women. to support chosocial office in Beirut cooperates with organizations that that organizations with cooperates Beirut in office ever. Our than more civil society from assistance on an attack, and other photographs show family mem family show photographs other and attack, an to have with her fiancé. One man reveals scars from from scars reveals man One fiancé. her with have to of memories their preserve to them with took they in coordination refugees for schools and centers, ty and Now –Women organizations partner our of two reminded one woman of the little arguments she used used she arguments little the of woman one reminded receiving communities and refugees, particularly particularly refugees, and communities receiving registration of refugees, these people are dependent ed the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to suspend its its (UNHCR) Agency suspend to UN Refugee the ed instruct and Syrian citizens for requirements entry home. These include a five-pound banknote signed signed banknote a five-pound include These home. bers who died during the flight from Syria. from Syria. flight the during died who bers that lighter aplastic and photo) cover (see friends by ume port of our Beirut office. Many refugees held out in out held refugees Many office. Beirut our of port which premiered in May 2015 in Beirut with the sup the in May with 2015 in Beirut premiered which with local populations.

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Blog Blog http://heinrichvonarabien. boellblog.org n tary films from and about Syria, including about and from films tary « Heinrich» von Arabien low reminds her of the scent of her home in Syria. in home her of scent the of her reminds low pil The 2012. in Lebanon to fled She region. Homs the from old, years 38 Shahed,

http://lb.boell.org/en/ Exhibition «Exilium» Exhibition exilium-exhibition Exilium Exilium ------, 3 The director follows a small group of men – the bal –the men of group asmall follows director The Assad regime and the approaching terrorist forces forces terrorist approaching the and regime Assad Syrian Army takes control of the city, which lies to lies to city, which the of control takes Syrian Army Even in the 49th year of the Israeli occupation, no occupation, Israeli the of year 49th Even in the Fighting hopelessnessinPalestine ing, and drawing at “Home”, a cultural center they they “Home”, at center drawing acultural and ing, let dancer Ahmed, the deserter Mohamed, and the the and Mohamed, deserter the Ahmed, dancer let of the Islamic State, a sense of liberation – captured –captured liberation of asense State, Islamic the of former art teacher Taj – as they attempt to realize to attempt Taj they –as teacher art former forms the backdrop for the knife attacks committed committed attacks knife the for backdrop the forms choice but to shut down the cultural center and flee flee and center cultural the down shut to but choice at over ten international festivals and events to date, date, to events and festivals international ten over at visions that are tearing their country apart, they at they apart, country their tearing are that visions add to the sense of helplessness and desperation. This This desperation. and helplessness of sense the to add Bank West in the Palestinians of expropriation and the east of Aleppo. Despite ongoing air strikes by the the by air strikes ongoing Despite Aleppo. of east the the at Syria, in northern in Manbij, place a city takes shown been It has in attendance. Alzakout Rafat tor their dreams. They spend a lot of time acting, sing acting, time of alot spend They dreams. their to return to a free and peaceful Syria. Syria. peaceful and afree to return to will able day, be one they that, Turkey hope to in the no have friends Manbij, the invades State Islamic the when But coexistence. free of dream live the to tempt seille International Film Festival in 2015. The film in 2015. The Film Festival seille International settlement policy and the associated displacement estinian state into being. The expansion of Israel’s Israel’s of expansion The being. into state estinian beginning of 2013. After months of fighting, the Free Free the fighting, of months 2013. of After beginning by Alzakout’s camera – spreads throughout the city. the throughout – spreads camera Alzakout’s by have set up themselves. Far from the ideological di ideological the Far from themselves. up set have political initiative is in sight that might bring aPal bring might that is in sight initiative political winning the Marseille Espérance prize at the Mar the prize at Espérance Marseille the winning

Image Trailer https://vimeo.com/129050278 : Marta Bogdańska : Marta ------

International Conflicts and Security Policy International Conflicts and Security Policy “gatekeeper”. “Jerusalem Talks” as part of our German-Israeli dia German-Israeli our of Talks” part “Jerusalem as University, and Judith Oppenheimer of Ir Amim con Ir of Amim Oppenheimer Judith and University, Studies and the Al Shabaka . We as network. policy Shabaka Al the and Studies In Israel, the governing coalition under Benjamin Ne Benjamin under coalition governing the In Israel, Israeli member of the Knesset; and Ami Ayalon, for Ami and Knesset; the of member Israeli We also collaborate with think tanks and research research and tanks think with We collaborate also Masarat and the Palestinian American Research Research American Palestinian the and Masarat Center (PARC). In East Jerusalem, we support mar support we (PARC). Jerusalem, In Center East Knesset passes the bill, many partners who receive receive who bill, partners the many passes Knesset Keeping the channelsofcommunication open Fleischmann, Prof. Raphael Greenberg of Tel of Aviv Greenberg Raphael Prof. Fleischmann, ian conflict. In October, as violence escalated anew, anew, escalated violence as October, In conflict. ian likely to find themselves in the same room, including including room, same the in themselves likely find to logue program. In June, writers Nir Baram and Lea Lea and Nir Baram writers In June, program. logue losing legitimacy in the eyes of the population. Fur population. the of eyes in the legitimacy losing from foreign governments to note this fact on all on doc fact this note to governments foreign from feasible options anymore. This discussion brought to brought discussion This anymore. options feasible of Jerusalem as a focal point of the Israeli-Palestin the of point afocal as Jerusalem of will be foundations political Germany’s from funding If the rights. human protect to strive and occupation centers such as the renowned Institute for Palestine Palestine for Institute renowned the as such centers Addameer. and Al-Haq as such organizations cacy of hopelessness in Palestine. For example, we sup we For example, in Palestine. hopelessness of controls the Gaza Strip, is at a standstill. Strip, astandstill. is at Gaza the controls gether individuals who would otherwise be highly un be otherwise would who individuals gether vened for a panel discussion on the history and future future and history the on discussion apanel for vened ginalized women, youths, and children who are par are who children and youths, ginalized women, vilians, to which Israeli authorities are responding responding are authorities Israeli which vilians, to are critical of the government and that oppose the the oppose that and government the of critical are that is now being discussed in the Knesset. The bill The Knesset. in the discussed being is now that law” “transparency aso-called approved cabinet the 2015, In December country. the will change that tives initia legislative of a series on agreed has tanyahu tions that receive more than 50% of their funding funding their of 50% than more receive that tions the settler Eliaz Cohen; Aida Touma-Sliman, Aida Arab- Eliaz Cohen; settler the art instruction to young people. young to instruction art to expand playgrounds for children, and to provide provide to and children, for playgrounds expand to women, of income the boost to initiatives includes this there: tensions of escalation the by affected ticularly thermore, the reconciliation process between Fatah, Fatah, between process reconciliation the thermore, solution and the Oslo Accords can even be considered considered be even can Accords Oslo the and solution sist young scholars in conjunction with our partners partners our with in conjunction scholars young sist directly affected. range of projects in an effort to counteract the sense sense the counteract to effort in an projects of range ever, is to stigmatize and vilify left-wing NGOs that NGOs that left-wing vilify and ever, stigmatize is to uments and at all events. Violations of the law would would law the of Violations all at events. and uments be subject to heavy fines. The main objective, how objective, main The fines. heavy to subject be by Palestinian youths against Israeli soldiers and ci and soldiers Israeli against youths Palestinian by mer head of Israel’s internal security service and and service security internal Israel’s of head mer port Palestinian human rights and prisoner advo prisoner and rights human Palestinian port powerless in the face of escalating violence and is and violence escalating of face in the powerless would require Israeli organiza non-governmental we looked at the question of whether the two-state two-state the whether of question the at looked we with an iron fist. The Palestinian Authority stands stands Authority Palestinian The fist. iron an with which dominates the West Bank, and Hamas, which which Hamas, and Bank, West the dominates which In 2015, our office in Tel Aviv launched a series of series a in Tel In Aviv 2015,launched office our Our office in Ramallah is carrying out a wide awide out is in carrying Ramallah office Our ------

4 The commission is comprised of 29 experts from from experts 29 of is comprised commission The These challenges cannot be solved without a common acommon without solved be cannot challenges These Supporters of the Haaretz Peace Conference include include Conference Peace Haaretz the of Supporters Egypt and Lebanon as well. Human rights organiza rights well. Human as Lebanon and Egypt European Union. The EU is overwhelmed by the ris the by EU is overwhelmed Union. The European In November, the Haaretz Peace Conference – which Conference Peace Haaretz In November, the In recent years, the EU has been setting up “mobil up setting been EU has the years, In recent With over 3,000 people in attendance, the confer the in attendance, 3,000 over people With flows to Europe poses significant challenges, both for both challenges, significant poses to Europe flows Morocco (2013),Morocco Tunisia (2014), (2014). Jordan and Partnerships are currently being negotiated with with negotiated being currently are Partnerships and immigration policy Prospects for asustainablerefugee rights inTunis Network for the protection ofrefugee Over 60 million people worldwide have fled their their fled have million worldwide 60 people Over in early 2017.in early ity partnerships” in an attempt to structure its mi its structure to attempt in an partnerships” ity ing pressure of migratory flows. Courageous visions Courageous flows. migratory of pressure ing individual countries and for the EU as a community. EU acommunity. as the for and countries individual our office in Tel Aviv. office our to alternative an providing center-left, the for forum convention and the principles of asylum law will form will law form asylum of principles the and convention effectively an to flows refugee uncontrolled from other, more traditional, security conferences such such conferences security traditional, other, more year. consecutive second the for place took – conflict for example, with Georgia (2009), (2011), (2009), Armenia Georgia with example, for government, business, and academia. Its task is to task Its academia. and business, government, gration policies toward its eastern and southern southern and eastern its policies toward gration as the Herzliya Conference (which features the Is the features (which Herzliya Conference the as Middle East the resolve to ways find to aims also grants are in short supply. The magnitude of refugee refugee of magnitude The supply. in short are grants the normative framework for the commission’s delib commission’s the for framework normative the questions main the of policy. One refugee a humane labor demography, as (such areas policy related and migrants, refugees, between connections the analyze a forward-looking refugee and immigration immigration and refugee a forward-looking are now looking to find safety in the countries of the the of countries the in safety find to looking now are or in country own their in first refuge seek most and and strategies for dealing with refugees and mi and refugees with dealing for strategies and tions view these partnerships critically, arguing that that critically, arguing partnerships these view tions raeli-US security establishment) and the conference conference the and establishment) raeli-US security erations. The commission will present its final report report final its will present commission The erations. ence has definitively established itself as a discussion as a discussion itself established definitively has ence responsibilities and burdens. burdens. and responsibilities of sharing afair and policy immigration and refugee hosted by the Institute for National , Studies, Security National for Institute the by hosted neighbors. Such partnerships have been established, established, been have partnerships Such neighbors. neighboring countries. But more and more people people more and more But countries. neighboring homes. Most seek protection from war and violence, violence, and war from protection seek Most homes. non-partisan commission to examine “prospects for for “prospects examine to commission non-partisan managed immigration policy. The Geneva refugee refugee Geneva policy. The immigration managed more) and then to formulate recommendations for recommendations formulate to then and more) policy, policy, and security development markets, which is closely aligned with the Israeli government. government. Israeli the with aligned is closely which will focus on how to achieve a successful transition transition asuccessful achieve to how on will focus In December 2015, the Foundation established a established Foundation 2015, the In December

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The crew of the Sea-Watch helps a boat full of exhausted people to board a freighter. Over 100 refugees were rescued in the operation. In an online logbook published on www.boell.de, two of the ship's crew members reported on the dramatic situation in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Image: Thomas Lenzen they ease access to the EU only for those who already At a conference in Prague that we organized in coop- have it anyway, namely business and political elites. eration with the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles In return, the EU is able to use local security struc- University, the Goethe Institute in Prague, and the tures – which are not subject to democratic control – Václav Havel Library, scholars from over 20 coun- for purposes such as reinforcing borders with other tries examined the reasons for the growing influence transit countries. Moreover, supplementary agree- of populist movements in Europe. In addition, to- ments would provide individual EU member states gether with green foundations from Austria and the with a legal framework for repatriating refugees and as well as the Green European Founda- migrants, thereby shifting the responsibility for car- tion, we hosted a workshop in Vienna where experts rying out deportations to authoritarian law enforce- from government, media and academia discussed ment officials in partner countries. strategies to counteract right-wing populism. Working together with the Euro-Mediterranean A capacity-building program on right-wing pop- Human Rights Network, the Tunisian General La- ulism and extremism that was organized by our Brus- bor Union, and other initiatives, our Tunis office in- sels office specifically targeted young Europeans. vited human rights activists from the entire region The subject matter was presented by experts from to a meeting in Tunis. The objective: to formulate a European , think tanks and NGOs as well blueprint for a migration policy geared toward the as by philosophers, journalists, activists and lawyers. protection of human rights. Because the EU’s poli- The group also took an excursion to Antwerp, the cies rely on cooperation with authoritarian security stronghold of Flemish right-wing extremism, where forces in the countries of the southern Mediterra- local members of the Belgian green party Groen pro- nean region, local human rights organizations there vided on-the-ground expertise. After five days of International Conflicts and Security Policy have a key role to play in terms of monitoring and re- work, program participants presented their conclu- porting, in order to ensure the protection of migrants’ sions to a panel of experts. Their finding? The chal- rights. At the meeting in Tunis, a network was estab- lenge posed by right-wing movements is considerable lished for this purpose. but not insurmountable. And they were convinced

Joining forces to combat right-wing populism in Europe – conference, projects, workshops Democracy is under pressure all around the world, and the European Union has not been spared from GreenCampus – these developments. Hungary’s prime minister Vik- Practicing successful politics tor Orbán openly touts his vision of establishing an illiberal state in the center of Europe and takes a GreenCampus – the political training academy of heavy-handed approach to NGOs critical of his poli- the Heinrich Böll Foundation and its affiliated foun- cies. In Poland, the newly elected government led by dations at the federal state level – pools our diverse the national-conservative Law and Justice Party is spectrum of advanced training programs in the field moving swiftly in an attempt to establish itself as the of political management. GreenCampus offers skills sole power in the country. In France, the right-wing development, capacity-building, and management extremist Front National was once again just barely consulting for people active in politics – whether prevented from making major advances in the second they work as volunteers, in political parties, or in round of regional elections. And here at home, the organizations. In this way, we make a key contribu- populist and sometimes even right-wing-extremist tion toward building and upgrading the skills that rallying cries of the party people need to engage in successful political work are attracting large numbers of voters. and effective social participation. International Conflicts and Security Policy Your Space in Europe”. In a variety of workshops – workshops of Your in Europe”. In avariety Space Hungarian volunteers provide care for the refugees, refugees, the for care provide volunteers Hungarian Europe”. Greens. Congress ofYoung Europeans inBudapest Shaping Europe’s future –

Our third Congress of Young Europeans took place took Young of Europeans Congress third Our in Budapest in September under the title “(Re)Claim title the under in September in Budapest in Hungary, a drama was unfolding at the Keleti rail Keleti the at unfolding was adrama in Hungary, conditions political current about ining discussions leading to the station, thus exposing the utter failure failure utter the exposing thus station, the to leading for example, on the future of education, the future of of future the education, of future the on example, for of the EU’s refugee policy. For a time, the focus of focus policy. the For a time, EU’s the of refugee continue to be available on the blog “Young blog the Voices availableon of be to continue visions of Europe. As one participant put it, “More it, put participant one As Europe. of visions the Green European Foundation, the Ecopolis Foun the Foundation, European Green the themselves. and who give us the opportunity to confront things things confront to opportunity the us give who and the event shifted outside, where participants helped helped participants where outside, shifted event the that it is possible to build a Europe that lives up to the the to up lives that build aEurope to is it possible that that we are not yet familiar with”. yet not are we that oth the of experience is the Europe anything, than sity, respect and peace. In 2016, their insights will In 2016, insights their peace. and sity, respect dation, and the Federation of Young of European Federation the and dation, er: meeting people who are not exactly like ourselves like ourselves exactly not are who people meeting er: urban spaces, and freedom in the digital age – young –young age digital in the freedom and spaces, urban ugees were stranded in the squares and underpasses underpasses and squares in the stranded were ugees historical ideals of democracy, human rights, diver rights, human democracy, of ideals historical people from all over the continent formulated their their formulated continent all the over from people whom the Hungarian authorities had left to fend for for fend to left had authorities Hungarian the whom way station in Budapest. For days, thousands of ref of thousands Fordays, in Budapest. station way

The congress was organized in cooperation with with in cooperation organized was congress The At the same time that participants were engag were participants that time same At the Blog Blog ­http://young-voices.boellblog.org Congress of Young Europeans in Budapest in Europeans Young of Congress

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6 Image: Zd Image: Union – needs to use its toolbox more more policy toolbox foreign its use to Union – needs Europe. The office’s kick-off event cast a spotlight on spotlight a cast event kick-off office’s The Europe. When France and Germany are in sync, they often often they in sync, are Germany and France When Greek debt crisis. However, the Greek crisis also crisis Greek the However, crisis. debt Greek our newofficein Paris Strengthening the Franco-German tandem– and security policy Recommendations for international peace Bard College in New York) and Herfried Münkler York)Herfried in New and College Bard For over 15 years now, our Annual Foreign Poli Foreign Annual our now, years 15 For over ic and fiscal policy in the eurozone. Policies in both Policiesboth in eurozone. the policy in fiscal ic and international foreign and security policy. We take security and foreign international lead the way in formulating European policy. This European in formulating way the lead countries are increasingly driven by national inter national by driven increasingly are countries on the question: What is the right way to deal with with deal to way right is the What question: the on constructive discussions on pressing questions of and open for aforum provided has Conference cy aim to help cultivate and reinforce Franco-German Franco-German reinforce and cultivate help aim to vigorously. In 2015, our annual conference focused focused conference In 2015, annual vigorously. our authoritarian regimes? The answers from our invit our from answers The regimes? authoritarian ticularly in terms of the future direction of econom of direction future the of in terms ticularly the climate change conference in Paris. conference change climate the with in connection organized were events and tivities Berlin ac Wall. fallthe of Additional the after tury the stance that Germany – always with a clear com aclear with – always Germany that stance the relations with a view toward shaping a shared, united united ashared, shaping toward aview with relations exposed fissures in Franco-German relations, par relations, in Franco-German fissures exposed ests, with the European perspective slipping into the the slipping into perspective European the with ests, ed experts – including Walter Russell Mead (from (from Mead Russell Walter –including experts ed both countries’ shared role in Europe a quarter cen aquarter in Europe role shared countries’ both background. By establishing an office in Paris, we Paris, in office an establishing By background. mitment to the Western alliance and the European European the alliance and Western the to mitment was evident again in 2015 in their response to the the to response in again 2015 in their evident was enka Lammelova Lammelova enka

------This could take the form, for example, of liberalized of example, for form, the take could This (from Humboldt University in Berlin) – often took took in Berlin) –often University Humboldt (from Sagar (from the National University of ) Singapore) of University National the (from Sagar Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to discuss what role role what (OSCE) discuss in to Europe Co-operation Berlin) called on Western countries to counteract counteract to countries Western on Berlin) called Civilian crisisprevention Beck joined scholars and federal government experts experts government federal and scholars joined Beck Our event series “Civilian crisis prevention in foreign in foreign “Civilian crisis series prevention event Our instrument of German foreign policy. public At four foreign German of instrument ing peace and crisis prevention, but which has tend has which but crisis prevention, and peace ing forts or the widely discredited strategy of forced re forced of strategy discredited widely the or forts ef diplomatic than success for potential greater fers countries led by authoritarian regimes. Civil socie regimes. authoritarian by led countries of our guests noted the declining influence of West influence declining the noted guests our of chairmanship of the Organization for Security and and Security for Organization the of chairmanship gime change. gime and John Keane (from the Social Science Center in Center Social Science the (from Keane John and very different directions. At the same time, nearly all nearly time, same At the directions. different very visa policies that would make it easier for for easier it make would policies that visa activists to travel to Europe. Participants argued argued Participants Europe. to travel to activists and peace policy” advocates the position that crisis that position the advocates policy” peace and available to the Western project of “normative de “normative of project Western the available to this trend by pursuing their own policies of openness. openness. policies of own their pursuing by trend this in play, crackdowns to role akey have but actors ty - of below” from “democratization of type this that advance this policy priority. For example, in October, in October, policy priority. For example, this advance to discuss what parliament and civil society can to do do to can civil society and parliament what discuss to anas – budgeting and staffing, structure, of terms this organization – which is a key player in is promot player a key –which organization this should play in the future. play in the should er for them to do their work. Speakers such as Rahul Rahul as such Speakers work. their do to them for er ern foreign policy. One instrument that still remains still remains that instrument policy. One foreign ern events, Green politicians including Franziska Brant Franziska including politicians Green events, ed to be neglected since the fall of the Iron Curtain – Curtain – Iron the fall of the since neglected be to ed ner, Winni Nachtwei, Tom Koenigs, and Marieluise Tom and ner, Koenigs, Nachtwei, Winni many authoritarian states make it harder and hard and harder it make states authoritarian many mocracy”, they argued, is to support civil society in civil society support is to argued, they mocracy”, prevention needs to be established more firmly – in firmly more established be to needs prevention we took the occasion of Germany’s upcoming 2016 upcoming Germany’s of occasion the took we Tempel (Editor-in-chief of (Editor-in-chief Tempel Sylke and York) New College, (Bard Mead Russell Walter ­ democr acy acy Internationale Politik ------7 “Russian disinformation in the 21st century” was the the was century” 21st in the disinformation “Russian Ukraine. At best, a durable ceasefire could “freeze” “freeze” could ceasefire a durable At best, Ukraine. Ukraine is to succeed as a democracy and serve as a as serve and ademocracy as succeed is to Ukraine European the of rules all the violated Ukraine, Russia Invited experts from Russia warned that the Russian Russian the that warned Russia from experts Invited Europe oneyear afterthe annexation ofCrimea The newworld (dis)order–Ukraine, Russia and Russian propagandaunderPutin By annexing Crimea and intervening in eastern in eastern intervening and Crimea annexing By of our guests. Instead, the EU reacts to short-term short-term to EU reacts the Instead, guests. our of cloud of rumors, ambiguities, and false information information false and ambiguities, rumors, of cloud a with public Russian the disorient is to prowess, cal opening speech by historian Timothy Snyder. There Snyder. There Timothy historian by speech opening grams. But so far the EU lacks the political consen political EU the lacks the far so But grams. pro investment and assistance financial generous government’s highly professional war of information information of war highly professional government’s the conflict, thereby giving the Ukrainian govern givingthe thereby conflict, the that Europe must support this process with swift and and swift with process this support must Europe that that the aim of Russia’s novel propaganda campaign, campaign, propaganda novel aim Russia’s of the that 2015. in June Heinrich Böll Foundation the and tions, Rela Foreign on Council European Council,tic the the big question at an international conference we we conference international an at big question the sus needed to take these steps, a fact lamented by all by lamented a fact steps, these take to needed sus the to respond Europe should How system. security should not be underestimated and that one should not not should one that and underestimated be not should Atlan the by organized aBerlin of conference subject developments without developing a long-term strat a long-term developing without developments dous: over 500 people attended, not least to hear the the hear to least not attended, people 500 over dous: role model for the region. the for model role egy. This will have to change soon, they asserted, if asserted, they soon, change will to This have egy. expect fair play from President Putin. They argued argued They Putin. President play fair from expect nexation of Crimea. Interest in the event was tremen was event in the Interest Crimea. of nexation not achieve a military victory in the war in eastern in eastern war in the victory a military achieve not was This pose? developments these that threat new hosted in Berlin in March, one year after Russia’s an Russia’s after year one in Berlin in March, hosted my and carry out reforms. There was also agreement agreement also was There reforms. out carry and my econo the stabilize to leeway political and time ment which is being conducted with first-rate technologi first-rate with conducted is being which was consensus among the participants that Kyiv can that participants the among consensus was , Berlin) Berlin) , ------

International Conflicts and Security Policy International Conflicts and Security Policy “Keep your distance from the rulers, and get closer to to closer get and rulers, the from distance your “Keep The UN Review Conference of the Parties to the Trea the to Parties the of UN Conference Review The UN review conference and asked how the demand to to demand the how asked and conference UN review grounds. humanitarian on weapons nuclear UN ban to In the event’s panel discussion, we explored the role the explored we discussion, panel event’s In the Many participants insisted that Russian propagan Russian that insisted participants Many Hiroshima andNagasaki Nuclear disarmament:70years after hibakusha in June to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic atomic the of anniversary 70th the mark to in June ing of different positions – these traits were cited by cited were traits –these positions different of ing lin to speak at the event. The discussions made clear clear made discussions The event. the at lin speak to countries are working within the framework of the the of framework the within working are countries substan achieve to failed far so have conferences cities two these of destruction the how again once oly of information held by Russian-language media? media? Russian-language by held information oly of openness to other opinions, and the careful weigh careful the and opinions, other to openness tial progress toward nuclear disarmament, over 130 130 over disarmament, nuclear toward tial progress UN review the war. Because nuclear of threat the that the humanitarian argument played during the the during played argument humanitarian the that aganda. Some argued that all lies and distortions distortions all lies and that argued Some aganda. ty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons end Weapons Nuclear of Non-Proliferation the on ty serves as a grave admonition to free the world from from world the free to admonition agrave as serves the people!” Willingness to engage in self-criticism, in self-criticism, engage to people!” Willingness the slogan the in line with self-isolation, Russian of time sources. So what can be done to disrupt the monop the disrupt to done be can So what sources. sequences in an online dossier featuring background background featuring online dossier in an sequences ternative to an authoritarian regime. authoritarian an to ternative al attractive most the as viewed was debate of ture shared conversation, is greatly needed during this during needed is greatly conversation, shared every and visit, shared every Westerners: and sians da must not be answered simply with counter-prop with simply answered be not must da reports and interviews. The failure of this conference conference this of failure The interviews. and reports ed in May with no agreement. We analyzed the con the We analyzed agreement. no in May with ed ers called for more mutual encounters between Rus between encounters mutual more for called ers become reality. become could law international under weapons nuclear ban bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Soh Horie, Soh a Nagasaki. and Hiroshima of bombing must be resolutely and consistently debunked. Oth debunked. consistently and resolutely be must mocracies. From a long-term perspective, this cul this perspective, along-term From mocracies. de Western of strengths key as participants many while simultaneously discrediting Western media media Western discrediting simultaneously while was also the subject of a public event we organized organized we event apublic of subject the also was , or survivor, traveled from to Ber to Japan from survivor,, or traveled bombing of Hiroshima of bombing a Horie, Soh

hibakusha , or survivor, from the atomic atomic the from survivor, , or ------8 “use your influence and do not vote for any party that that party any for vote not do and influence your “use Zlatko Dizdarević. Despite rampant cronyism and a and cronyism rampant Despite Zlatko Dizdarević. Agreement at a ceremony in Paris. At the time, the the time, At the in Paris. aceremony at Agreement Žbanić argued that civic engagement and especially especially and civic engagement that argued Žbanić Herzegovina see it as the basis for a dysfunctional adysfunctional for basis the as it see Herzegovina In December 1995, the presidents of Serbia, Croa Serbia, of presidents 1995, the In December Bosnia and Herzegovina), Dennis Gratz (member of (member Gratz Dennis Herzegovina), and Bosnia Bosnia andHerzegovina: 20years after Dayton international community heralded the agreement as as agreement the heralded community international included Valentin Inzko (High Representative for Inzko Valentin (High Representative included ise Beck (member of the German Bundestag). One of of One Bundestag). German the of (member Beck ise future with experts including the film director Jas film director the including experts with future future. In his view, only then would the EU address EU address the would In then his only view, future. could again become a problem for the EU in the near EUnear in the for aproblem become again could country the prospects, lack clear citizens its cause be that, asserted Dizdarević In contrast, change. called on the panel’s non-Bosnians to “use your influ your “use to non-Bosnians panel’s the on called a peace treaty, but today the people of Bosnia and and Bosnia of people the today but treaty, a peace tor of our Sarajevo office) discussed the country’s country’s the discussed office) Sarajevo our of tor (direc in Berlintion in November, Marion Kraske the state. the of framework the changing and now measures tive proac taking than again, rather Bosnia of issue the tia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the Dayton Dayton the signed Herzegovina and Bosnia and tia, the main messages to emerge from the event was the the was event the from emerge to messages main the tions affecting the country. One of the guests at the the at guests the of One country. the affecting tions condi economic and political bleak generally the improve to impossible will nearly it be otherwise tion: state. At a panel discussion hosted by the Founda the by hosted discussion At apanel state. tain that they are criminals”. are they that tain education could forge a path toward progress and and progress toward apath forge could education ence and motivate people to take action in support of of in support action take to people motivate and ence Germany, to fled he old when 12 years was who event, urgent need for democratic reforms to the constitu the to reforms democratic for need urgent new political forces”. In turn, he urged Bosnians to to Bosnians urged he forces”. In turn, political new has held power in the past 20 years. You can be cer You be can years. 20 past in the power held has mila Žbanić and the journalist and former diplomat diplomat former and journalist the and mila Žbanić public administration that remains hostile to reform, reform, to hostile remains that administration public parliament in Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Marielu and Herzegovina) and in Bosnia parliament In December, we organized a panel discussion that that discussion apanel organized we In December,

------“Re:Claim height Rights!”, draw Human to aimed we Jochen von Bernstorff, professor of international international of professor Bernstorff, von Jochen 2015 was a year of key UN summits. New goals and and goals New UN key of summits. ayear 2015 was Party) asserted that the issue of human rights must must rights human of issue the that asserted Party) trans* and inter* (LGBTI) individuals. Vibrant societies need forces that promote the core priorities of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s international work. Univer Re:Claim HumanRights! –event series Fostering Democracy, Enforcing HumanRights Supporting and advancing democracy and democratization worldwide is one of racy. Together with our partners, we also work to advance legislative initiatives resolve conflicts, to find constructive paths for the settlement of disputes, and to ing climate agreement was adopted. And the agenda agenda the And adopted. was agreement climate ing law at the University of Tübingen, argued that inter that argued Tübingen, of University the at law of human rights violations. Maina (UN Kiai violations. Special rights human of for women’s rights – the Beijing Platform for Action – for Beijing Platform – the rights women’s for celebrated its 20th anniversary. In our event series series event In our anniversary. 20th its celebrated versal human rights and international agreements. agreements. international and rights human versal vironmental sustainability were agreed. A new, bind Anew, agreed. were sustainability vironmental and criticized openly, and that civil society has an es an has civil society that and openly, criticized and tional conference in June, which focused on respon on focused which in June, conference tional that human rights violations must be spoken about about spoken be must violations rights human that targets for ending global and promoting en promoting and poverty global ending for targets these UN processes. At the kick-off event, Tom Koe event, kick-off At the UN processes. these ciety organizations, journalists, and the media. We also work with our partners to collapse of democratic practices. sibility and accountability in the enforcement of uni of enforcement in the accountability sibility and sential role to play in this effort. play in this to role sential policy. He argued foreign guide to acompass as serve sustainability and human rights, which are central to to central are which rights, human and sustainability discrimination against women –are both the wellspring and linchpin of democ ened attention to the issues of justice, environmental environmental justice, of issues the to attention ened and nurture a free political culture. To this end, we support the work of civil so - around the world that aimto protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, achieve abalance of interests –allcrucial factors inpreventing the erosion or even sal human rights –from freedom of expression to the elimination of allforms of national law works for investors, but not for victims victims for not but investors, for works law national nigs (human rights policy spokesperson for the Green Green the for policy spokesperson rights nigs (human A highlight of the event series was an interna an was series event the A highlight of Maina Kiai at the conference "Accountability Now!" "Accountability conference the at Kiai Maina ------9 At a Foundation conference held in Berlin in January in Berlin held in January conference At aFoundation 2012. Since his release from political detention, he he detention, political from 2012. Since his release 2015, well-known Russian and Belarusian human Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful as peaceful of freedom to rights the on Rapporteur Defamation ofdissidents inRussiaandBelarus ity of civil society actors to operate freely, are being being are freely, operate to actors civil of society ity facing companies. Closing the accountability gaps in gaps accountability Closing the companies. facing countries are considerably more difficult than those those than difficult more considerably are countries in many organizations civil society facing conditions curtailed or even criminalized, and dissidents are are dissidents criminalized, and even or curtailed critical non-governmental organizations to their their to organizations non-governmental critical atski, winner of the Foundation’s Petra Kelly Prize in Petra Foundation’s the of winner atski, Biali Ales of attendance the was conference the at knees on the basis of its so-called “foreign agent agent “foreign so-called its of basis the on knees tries. The freedoms of expression, media and assem and media expression, of freedoms The tries. states and companies remains a major challenge. amajor remains companies and states the that reported also association) of and sembly subject to fines and imprisonment. One bright spot spot bright One imprisonment. and fines to subject rights activists drew a sobering conclusion: 2014 conclusion: a sobering drew activists rights ed activist. ed has returned to the scene as an unbroken, level-head unbroken, an as scene the to returned has bly, along with the freedom of sexuality and the abil the and sexuality of freedom the bly, with along was a very bad year for human rights in their coun in their rights human for year bad a very was In recent years, Russia has been trying to bring to trying been has Russia years, In recent ------

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Pro Derechos Humanos Pro Derechos Two years ago, in a process closely coordinated by coordinated closely ago, in aprocess Two years Tlachinollan Human Rights Center and the the and Center Rights Human Tlachinollan German Coordination for Human Rights in Mexico, Rights Human for Coordination German impunity inCentral America La Red–network againstviolenceand Often the only support for families of missing persons persons missing of families for support only the Often in line with international standards. At a panel dis At apanel standards. international in line with lack of security. While these countries are democra are countries While these security. lack of formed by the state, often risking their own safety in safety own their risking often state, the by formed ciety organizations from El Salvador, Guatemala, El Salvador, from Guatemala, organizations ciety of civilso in number Salvador, El a large office our olence, and impunity in the region. One of the net the of One region. in the impunity and olence, comes from human rights organizations such as the the as such organizations rights human from comes cussion in Berlin co-hosted by the Foundation and the the and Foundation the by in Berlin co-hosted cussion pro that disappearances on law ageneral calling for cies in formal terms, democratic institutions are im are institutions democratic terms, in formal cies ganizations of Foundation. the vides for searches, investigations, and compensation aims to address urgent problems of (in-)security, vi (in-)security, of problems urgent address to aims established Honduras and and discussed ways to combat these types of crimes. crimes. of types these combat to ways discussed and are responsible for this state of affairs. affairs. of state this for responsible are powers facto de that the on light shed to attempting the to due abroad movements migratory growing and the process. For this reason, activists in Mexico are in Mexico are activists reason, this For process. the per be should that tasks on take to have themselves the displacement of populations within each country; country; each within populations of displacement the gangs; (youth) of power territorial and strategies the structural weaknesses of states and the increasingly increasingly the and states of weaknesses structural ularly shares its findings with policy-makers, and its its and policy-makers, with findings its ularly shares has commissioned studies focusing on such issues as as issues such on focusing studies commissioned has blurred lines between legality and illegality. and legality between lines blurred peded from functioning properly, and the network is network the and properly, functioning from peded work’s main priorities is to identify and analyze the the analyze and identify is to priorities main work’s we honored the memory of the disappeared students students disappeared the of memory the honored we Ortega CC BY-ND https://www.flickr.com/photos/arenaortega/7315651350/ CC 2.0, Ortega El Salvador Quezaltepeque, in imprisoned members gang Young , both long-time partner or partner long-time , both La Red , a network that that , anetwork La Red La Red Centro Centro reg ------11 El Faro El 15–24 years of age. But the much-prophesied demo much-prophesied the But age. of years 15–24 Africa’s population is the youngest in the world. In world. in the youngest is the population Africa’s partner our efforts, vigilant of years After EU remained unmoved by accusations that its trad its that accusations by unmoved EU remained filed with the Thai human rights commission on be on commission rights human Thai the with filed Cambodian goods, but none of these benefits had benefits these of none but goods, Cambodian Kenya for example, 35% of the population is between is between population 35% the of example, for Kenya Courage to make change–anexhibit inNairobi confiscation inCambodia Success inthe fightagainstland ing partners were committing human rights viola rights human committing were partners ing organization Equitable Cambodia finally achieved finallyachieved Cambodia Equitable organization on-site investigations of Mitr Phol’s activities. That, That, activities. Mitr Phol’s of investigations on-site cided to pull out of Cambodia. The local communities communities local The Cambodia. of pull out to cided giant had benefited from EU trade preferences for preferences trade from EU benefited had giant populations, local against tactics intimidation grabs, graphic dividend has yet to materialize. Young materialize. Ken to yet has dividend graphic are now waiting for the Cambodian government to to government Cambodian the for waiting now are together with a complaint that Equitable Cambodia Cambodia Equitable that acomplaint with together tol azero adopted has Coca-Cola success. to led that talks Cambodia’s Equitable Ultimately, was it tions. the part, For its populations. local to down trickled land over disputes protracted by preceded was tory success in 2015 when Thai sugar producer Mitr Phol MitrPhol producer sugar Thai in 2015 when success sure on the sugar corporation to the point that it de it that point the to corporation sugar the on sure destroyed crops, and incinerated homes. The sugar sugar The homes. incinerated and crops, destroyed return their land to them. to land their return reports are made available to a broad public audi abroad available to made are reports erance policy on land confiscation, and it conducted conducted it and confiscation, land on policy erance ence by media organizations that are members of the the of members are that organizations media by ence half of the affected communities, escalated the pres the escalated communities, affected the of half network, including withdrew its operations from Cambodia. This vic This Cambodia. from operations its withdrew with Coca-Cola, one of Mitr Phol’s main customers, customers, main Mitr Phol’s of one Coca-Cola, with in El Salvador.

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Democracy and Human Rights Democracy and Human Rights The project was initiated by a man who himself has has himself who aman by initiated was project The It is hoped that over four million new voters – nearly –nearly million voters four over new that It is hoped Rights League (LTDH) – which shared the 2015 the (LTDH) shared –which League Rights

LGBT organizations inTunisia to start achieve gains For the first time ever, established civil society or civilsociety ever, time established first the For Our office in Nairobi provided support for an exhibi an for support provided in Nairobi office Our is replete with courageous women and men who have have who men and women courageous with is replete level – 67% – of any demographic group, and the the and group, –67% demographic level any –of ya’s best-known activist. Thousands of people have have people of Thousands activist. best-known ya’s yans suffer from a lack of prospects and political rep political and prospects alack of from suffer yans one-fifth of the electorate – will step up to the ballot the to up will –step electorate the of one-fifth ganizations in Tunisia such Tunisian the as Human viewed the exhibition, but that is just the beginning: beginning: the is just that but exhibition, the viewed an awareness of the influence they possess, so that that so possess, they influence the of awareness an they can tackle the challenges facing their country. country. their facing challenges the tackle can they history Kenya’s exist. do they but between, far and the project #TeamCourage aims to launch amove launch to aims #TeamCourage project the tion, “Courage”, that tells the story of these heroes. heroes. these of story the tells “Courage”, that tion, people. most to unknown are they but justice, and tion demonstrated great courage: Bonifacedemonstrated Mwangi, daily fight for survival leaves them with limited lee limited with them leaves survival for daily fight resentation. They have the highest unemployment box during the next general elections in 2017. elections general next the box during ment of young change makers and to instill them with with them instill to and makers change young of ment made great sacrifices in the fight for self-determina for fight the in sacrifices great made prize-winning photojournalist and perhaps Ken perhaps and photojournalist prize-winning way to mobilize political clout. Role models are few few are Role models mobilize clout. to political way

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. Both organizations have been partners of the the of partners been have organizations . Both Image: B Image: rian Inganga rian ------– called sangomas – in South Africa exert important important exert Africa –in South sangomas – called Kajal The year 2015 marked the 20th anniversary of the the of 20th anniversary the 2015 marked year The Even though South Africa’s constitution prohibits prohibits constitution Africa’s South Even though Homosexuality is “un-African”: this claim is made claim is this made is “un-African”: Homosexuality LGBTI individuals. LGBTI Taking stock: Beijing+20 from Lebanon Debating genderonline– in South Africa Traditional healerscombathomophobia Beijing Platform for Action, which was adopted at adopted was which Action, for Beijing Platform Our Beirut office provides support for the project, project, the for support provides office Beirut Our jing agenda represented a milestone for feminist feminist for amilestone represented jing agenda interpretations of African traditions and argue that that argue and traditions African of interpretations unfounded question They Town office. Cape in our and mental morality,of on issues influence ing audiences. ing years. Eyes lined in black were long viewed as an ex an as viewed long in were black lined Eyes years. forces to fight homophobia. The group – which which in – group The homophobia. fight to forces joined sangomas of agroup Recently values. family cludes lesbian and gay sangomas – meets regularly regularly – meets sangomas gay and lesbian cludes and religious policy-makers, by again over and over as eye makeup in the Arab region for thousands of thousands for region Arab in the makeup eye as and tradition. Their influential position is helping to helping is position influential Their tradition. and goals of gender justice and the systematic, world systematic, the and justice gender of goals traditional authorities, and other opinion leaders. leaders. opinion other and authorities, traditional the World Conference on Women in 1995. The Bei in 1995. Women The on World Conference the to disrupt these kinds of stereotypes and stimulate stimulate and stereotypes of kinds these disrupt to stereotype of the veiled Arab woman as a victim of avictim as woman Arab veiled the of stereotype sexual diversity is definitely compatible with culture culture with compatible is definitely diversity sexual theless, we are still a long way off from attaining the the attaining from off way still a long are we theless, struggles such as the fight against racist population population racist against fight the as such struggles discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, orientation, sexual of grounds the on discrimination discourse on gender-related topics throughout the the throughout topics gender-related on discourse region. The journal’s writers – Arab women, mostly – mostly women, –Arab writers journal’s The region. engender positive changes in social attitudes toward toward attitudes in social changes positive engender ern depictions of Arab women were frequently hy frequently were women Arab of depictions ern endowed with highly contradictory meanings. It can meanings. highly contradictory with endowed examine questions of gender, sexuality and feminism. feminism. and gender,sexuality of questions examine not serve as a measuring stick for “right” or “wrong” “wrong” or “right” for stick ameasuring as serve not new online academic journal based in Lebanon, want want in Lebanon, based journal academic online new homophobia is ever-present and is frequently ex is frequently and is ever-present homophobia behavior. patriarchal domination. The publishers of Kohl of publishers The domination. patriarchal the to today way given has image this persexualized, West past While in the eroticism. Arab of pression pressed through acts of violence. Traditional healers Traditional healers violence. of acts through pressed proach highlighted the fact that the term “nature” is “nature” term the that fact the highlighted proach policies or the promotion of women’s health. Never health. women’s of promotion the policies or which is targeted toward Arab- and English-speak and Arab- toward is targeted which wide elimination of discrimination against women. women. against discrimination elimination of wide

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Democracy and Human Rights The Great Transformation vironmental transformation everywhere –here at home inGermany, and around The Heinrich Böll Foundation wants to accelerate the transition to alow-carbon, whose business models make climate change worse must be called on to pay. One the world wherever our international offices are located. We fight for drastic re tion with nature. We are actively committed to the conclusion of aglobal climate Paving the Way Towards anEnvironment-Friendly ModernWorld logical limits of our planet while simultaneously strengthening human rights and industry, and for accountability on the partof mining companies. We want to find resource-efficient, and equitable global society – this means moving away from the ronment-friendly agriculture, and sustainable urban development. It’s within our predatory exploitation of natural resources and moving towards greater coopera power to achieve aturnaround inglobal climate policy! We support social and en democracy. of our top priorities isto promote alternatives: the green energy revolution, envi ductions inresource consumption, for transparent contracts inthe commodities solutions that enable natural resources to be used in a way that respects the eco - accord under the auspices of the United Nations. Furthermore, those stakeholders There is hardly an issue that calls more urgently for for urgently more calls that issue an is hardly There After the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit summit climate Copenhagen the of failure the After International climatediplomacy international cooperation than climate change. Yet change. climate than cooperation international foreign minister finally announced the conclusion conclusion the announced finally minister foreign clearly a success in diplomatic terms, but the agree the but terms, in diplomatic asuccess clearly 2015, was this 12 December on agreement a new of climate protection were aimed toward the Novem the toward aimed were protection climate only halting progress because the conflicts of inter conflicts the because progress halting only six years ago, all hopes for a breakthrough in global in global abreakthrough for ago, all hopes six years est within and among states are simply too great. great. too simply are states among and within est made far so have change climate combat to efforts ber 2015 climate summit in Paris. When France’s France’s When in Paris. summit 2015 climate ber Image: Julien Brachhammer CC-BY-NC 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/spidey-man/23412049230/ 2.0, CC-BY-NC Brachhammer Julien Image: Climate summit in Paris: People from around the world staged creative protests to call for climate justice climate for call to protests creative staged world the around from People Paris: in summit Climate - - - 14 2°C, and preferably below 1.5°C. Human rights and and rights Human 1.5°C. below preferably and 2°C, leaves the door open to risky geoengineering tech geoengineering risky to open door the leaves compensation on the basis of the agreement. the of basis the on compensation for claims assert to able will be not change climate gender equity are only weakly anchored in the agree in the anchored weakly only are equity gender and countries that suffer losses and damage due to to due damage and losses suffer that countries and tance for developing countries from 2020 onwards, 2020 onwards, from countries developing for tance will countries participating by date to pledged tions nologies. There is no plan to top up financial assis financial up top to plan is no There nologies. below well warming global to keep sufficient be not ment. Furthermore, the wording of the agreement agreement the of wording the Furthermore, ment. peo that deal ambitious and fair the not was ment ple had been hoping for. The (voluntary) contribu (voluntary) for. hoping The been ple had - - - -

- - - - - The Heinrich Böll Foundation took a delegation to to adelegation took Heinrich Böll Foundation The An interesting climate finance proposal has been put put been has proposal finance climate interesting An At a symposium hosted by the Foundation during the the during Foundation the by hosted At asymposium Justice Programme: they are calling for a “carbon a“carbon calling for are they Programme: Justice 2015, the Climate Justice Programme assembled a assembled Programme Justice Climate 2015, the He holds RWE’s carbon emissions responsible for cli for responsible emissions RWE’sHe holds carbon REDD+, which stands for “reducing emissions from from emissions “reducing REDD+, for stands which Revenue from the levy would be used to assist the the assist to used be would levy the from Revenue Paris, where we added to the discussion by organiz by discussion the to added we where Paris, Carbon Levy Declaration that was signed by a large alarge by signed was that Declaration Levy Carbon REDD+ –acontentious climatefinancemechanism The "carbonlevy"

ing our own events within the framework of various various of framework the within events own our ing levy” to be imposed on the 90 companies that ac that companies 90 the on imposed be to levy” forward by one of our project partners, the Climate Climate the partners, project our of one by forward count for nearly two thirds of the global greenhouse greenhouse global the of thirds two nearly for count on his lawsuit against the German energy giant RWE. giant energy German the against his lawsuit on gases emitted since the onset of industrialization. industrialization. of onset the since emitted gases known experts and activists. The Heinrich Böll Foun The activists. and experts known advanced global attempt to develop a climate finance finance a climate develop to attempt global advanced also organized an event with Peruvian farmer and and farmer Peruvian with event an organized also Atlas”. “Coal We published newly our from data and how on discussions up We backed forums. alternative and threatening local communities. communities. local threatening and to phase out the use of fossil fuels by providing facts facts providing by fuels fossil of use the out phase to the costs to prevent a glacial lake from overflowing overflowing aglacial lake from prevent to costs the deforestation and forest degradation”, is the most most is the degradation”, forest and deforestation dation supports the declaration as well. as declaration the supports dation number of international organizations and well- and organizations international of number a formulated and supporters influential of network namely carbon sequestration by (natural) forests. forests. (natural) by sequestration carbon namely most threatened by the effects of climate change. In change. climate of effects the by threatened most mechanism that is based on an ecosystem service, service, ecosystem an on is based that mechanism mate change and is demanding that RWE pay help that is demanding and change mate reported who Lliuya, Luciano Saúl guide mountain poorest communities in the global south that are that south global in the communities poorest

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- - - - 15 “Critique of the Green Economy”, written by Barbara Barbara by Economy”, written Green the of “Critique The green economy is the subject of heated debates debates heated of subject is the economy green The Unmüßig, Lili Fuhr and Thomas Fatheuer and pub and Fatheuer Thomas Unmüßig, Lili and Fuhr Critique ofthe green economy ly and environmentally compatible climate change change climate compatible environmentally ly and lished in 2015, provides a critical review of the green green the of review a critical in 2015, lished provides for others it simply represents “business as usual” usual” as “business represents simply it others for communities as key actors in the pursuit of social of pursuit in the keyactors as communities these recognizing than Rather rights. use land over cial priorities into account. into cial priorities so taking simultaneously while crises global coming around the world. For some, it offers the solution to to solution the offers it some, For world. the around agriculture and livestock production – and hold them them hold –and production livestock and agriculture tion – such as the ever-growing practice of industrial industrial of practice ever-growing the as –such tion deforesta of cause leading the are that sectors those com traditional and indigenous by inhabited areas tion of the environment. Rather, key questions are at at are Rather, questions key environment. the of tion the wrong approach. In their view, REDD+ view, In their simply approach. wrong the that REDD+ projects are implemented mainly in mainly implemented are REDD+that projects stake: How we want to live in the future? How do we we do How future? live in the to want we How stake: sions through projects carried out in other countries, countries, in other out carried projects through sions dressed up in green. The debate inflames passions passions inflames debate The in green. up dressed direct run-up to COP 21 in Paris, experts from Ger from COP 21 experts in to Paris, run-up direct duction and consumption. In addition, they argued argued they In addition, consumption. and duction responsible for their actions. actions. their for responsible es and blind spots – and outlines a roadmap for over for aroadmap outlines –and blind spots and es consequenc opportunities, its –describing economy enables industrialized countries to reduce their emis their reduce to countries industrialized enables - protec the just than involved is more there because mitigation, their forest use practices are simply are practices use forest their mitigation, many, Europe and Latin America argued that this is this that argued America Latin and many, Europe munities and therefore risk triggering major disputes disputes major risk triggering therefore and munities prohibited. A better approach would be to target target to be would approach Abetter prohibited. protracted environmental and economic crises, while while crises, economic and environmental protracted what really constitutes the “good life”? The book book The life”? “good the constitutes really what And other? each with resources finite share to want without having to modify their own patterns of pro of patterns own their modify to having without

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In 2015, we also launched an online discussion on the ever, this has been changing in recent years: growing financialization of nature. Attempts to calculate the numbers of courageous young activists in Georgia economic value of nature are not new, but many re- and Armenia are demanding protection of the envi- cent models appear to possess a new quality and de- ronment and human rights. For example, initiatives serve to be analyzed and discussed in greater detail. led by young people aim to take action against the The financialization of nature is an issue that our growing trend towards privatization, which is lead- office in Rio de Janeiro has been focusing on for sev- ing to overbuilding in urban areas. The Green Acad- eral years. This work was capped off in 2015 with a emy run by our office in Tbilisi offers a forum where, four-day conference in Belém, Brazil, the gateway to several times a year, activists and organizations can the Amazon. In Brazil, a country with tremendous get together and build networks. The Academy’s ob- biodiversity and the largest rainforest in the world, jective is to serve as the breeding ground for joint the question of the relationship between (a) nature strategies to promote environment-friendly change, conservation and (b) the rights of people who live in a democratic political culture, and green policies of and with nature has long held special relevance. Con- equal opportunity. ference participants from all of Latin America were especially impressed by a tour to the area surround- The full privatization of water in Chile ing Belém, where they witnessed not only the effects How a country treats its natural resources is not of massive resource depletion but also visited villages just a question of and ecology. It is also a that are putting agroecological alternatives into question of how private citizens are included in deci- practice. sion-making processes regarding the use of such re- sources. In most countries, an abundance of resourc- The , in Germany and es does not lead to . On the contrary, around the world it generally leads to the concentration of economic Renewable energy sources can provide us with 100% power in the hands of a few, environmental degrada- of our electrical power: this is not only possible, but tion, and growing social inequality. For this reason, also necessary. This is the only way we will be able it is crucial to ensure transparency and accounta- to prevent climate disaster, gain independence from bility in the resources sector and to promote public finite fossil fuels that will become increasingly ex- awareness regarding the risks and consequences of pensive in the future, and free ourselves from reli- resource exploitation. ance on uncontrollable and expensive nuclear power. In Chile, for example, the water sector was fully Germany’s Energiewende shows how it is possible to privatized. Water legislation in Chile, along with the make the transition to renewable power. Our website corresponding constitutional provisions, permits the www.energytransition.de and its accompanying state to transfer water rights free of charge to pri- The Great Transformation blog provide information on the latest developments vate entities, who can then sell water at high prices. in Germany’s energy transition and on other interna- But illegal activities occur as well, such as the diver- tional strategies and solutions in the energy sector. sion of river water. For example, in Petorca province, The blog features entries from around the world, in- large-scale avocado producers divert river water cluding contributions from our international offices into an underground system of canals, thereby de- in Brussels, Prague, Mexico, China, India and South priving over 40,000 small farmers of a resource that Africa. is essential for their economic survival. The organi- zation Modatima (short for Movimiento de Defensa Green transformations in Poland por el Acceso al Agua, la Tierra y la Protección del and the South Caucasus Medio Ambiente), one of the leading forces of the na- Interest in pushing for environment-friendly change tional water rights movement, is active in the fight is found mostly at the local level in Poland these days. to win back water rights. It also runs training pro- Our office in Warsaw supports local and regional in- grams around the country for people affected by itiatives in their efforts to help communities develop water shortages. Rodrigo Mundaca, one of Moda- the necessary capacity and skills. For example, the tima’s leaders, barely escaped a murder attempt in “Green Point” project in the city of Słupsk provides March 2015. Half-hearted investigations by law en- local residents with advice on easy ways to save en- forcement authorities have produced no results to ergy in their own homes. Green Point’s services are date. Nevertheless, the movement refuses to be in- offered free of charge. timidated and continues to fight. Working in close In the South Caucasus, the issue of environmental cooperation with the defensoría del pueblo (ombuds- protection has gained little traction due to the over- man’s office), Modatima launched legal proceedings riding urgency of economic and political crises. How- against large-scale landowners in late 2015. Our of-

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Every year following the annual demonstration Wir haben es satt! (“We’re fed up with the agro industry!”), organized by the Meine Landwirtschaft (“My agriculture”) alliance, the Heinrich Böll Foundation serves as a central meeting point for thousands of marchers as they continue their discussions over a warm bowl of soup. fice in Santiago de Chile supports Modatima’s grass- tinue to suffer from hunger. At the same time, the roots work and helps water rights activists to forge environmental impact of industrial agriculture can stronger networks that can boost the effectiveness of no longer be ignored: fertile soils and biological di- local resistance efforts. To help protect water rights versity are being lost, and water resources are being activists from further attacks, our office is boosting polluted and overused. Biodiversity loss and climate their (inter)national visibility by providing media out- change are destabilizing ecosystems and endanger- reach and regular coverage on its website. We are ing the natural foundations of agriculture. It is im- also providing support to lawyers who are willing perative to reorient agricultural practices in a way to litigate cases that have the potential to achieve a that is socially and environmentally sustainable. In broader impact on the inter-American and interna- the run-up to the International Green Week – the tional human rights system above and beyond the in- world’s largest agricultural trade fair which is held dividual case. every year in Berlin – we advanced discussions to push for a sustainable and environment-friendly "Soil Atlas": Facts and figures about earth, transformation of agriculture. One of our main ac- land and fields tivities here was the organization of an international Fertile soil is essential for life. It takes 2000 years for symposium on agroecology. 10 centimeters of soil to form. Every year, millions of The Great Transformation hectares of fertile soil are lost as a result of road con- Reducing waste in local communities, struction, urban development, and erosion caused retail businesses, and industry by intensive farming. We use the world’s soils as if When people talk about waste policy, discussions they were inexhaustible. Unless we develop a funda- usually focus on who collects the rubbish and how mentally different approach toward dealing with this much it costs. To mark the European Week for Waste valuable resource, many of the UN’s Sustainable De- Reduction in November 2015, the Foundation organ- velopment Goals – such as halting biodiversity loss, ized a conference in Berlin that highlighted the ques- ending hunger and combating climate change – will tion of how to prevent raw materials from becoming not be met. In order to foster greater awareness of waste in the first place. Examples from Germany, the pivotal importance of soils, we joined forces with Italy, France and the UK showed the way forward: Friends of the Earth Germany and the Institute for useful approaches include packaging-free products, Advanced Sustainability Studies to publish a “Soil reuse strategies in logistics systems, high-quality re- Atlas” in January 2015. The report contains approx- cycling in industry, and more. A European Precycling imately 20 short essays that use informative exam- Network was launched as a result of the event. ples and graphics to explain why soil conservation is so important, and why it matters to all of us.

How a sustainable and fair transformation of the food system can help the environment Despite higher levels of agricultural production, more than 800 million people around the world con-

Soil Atlas goo.gl/hiKaLg Art and Culture Art too canbe aninstrument of civic education. Art sharpens our perceptions, this way opens upnew spaces for social and political intervention. tal technology generates entirely new possibilities for artists: it dramatically ex- trains our sense of intuition, and inspires usto creative action. The spread of digi Art andCultureArt pands opportunities to participate incultural activities and achievements and in Town, and audiences in Berlin reacted with enthusi with in Berlin reacted audiences Town, and September 2015. In their show – a parody of the state broad state the of –aparody show news fake In their What happens to art – music and dance in particu dance and –music art to happens What Wael Kodeih created a project to explore this ques this explore to aproject created Wael Kodeih Lebanese choreographerLebanese Nancy Naous and composer Zambezi News–a news satire fromZimbabwe music underIslamiclaw The ThirdCircle–danceand lar – when it becomes subject to Islamic law? The The law? Islamic to subject becomes it lar – when of the authoritarian regime of Robert Mugabe. Zam Mugabe. Robert of regime authoritarian the of awide life, covering everyday and politics country’s from various schools of thought a short performance performance ashort thought of schools various from of “Zambezi News” use biting, double-edged hu double-edged biting, use News” “Zambezi of makers –the reporting propaganda-laden caster’s of modern dance and asked them which movements, movements, which them asked and dance modern of from their point of view, and what would need to be be to need would what and view, of point their from changed in order for the music and dance to comply comply to dance and music the for in order changed asm too when the show was presented live in Berlin in presented was show the when too asm creators The reform. land and hip-hop sports, and all of the dance movements and music were were music and movements dance all the of tion in greater detail. They showed religious scholars scholars religious showed They detail. in greater tion spectrum of topics that include race and sex, politics politics sex, and race include that topics of spectrum crisis-ridden the of analyses trenchant provides show sounds and types of clothing are are clothing of types and sounds distribute the show via social networks, in defiance in defiance networks, via social show the distribute religious scholars on any of these issues. For some, some, For issues. these of any on scholars religious bezi News receives support from our office in Cape Cape in office our from support receives News bezi mor to address the problems facing Zimbabwe. The The Zimbabwe. facing problems the address to mor with Sharia law. There was no consensus among the the among consensus no was law. Sharia There with send-ups of politics and everyday life in Zimbabwe. in life everyday and politics of send-ups trenchant provides show news satirical the Berlin: in live News” “Zambezi haram (forbidden) (forbidden) haram ­ ------, 18 “right” or “wrong”. Our office in Beirut supported supported Beirut in office Our “wrong”. or “right” Third Circle”, which was staged at the Shams Theat Shams the at staged Circle”,Third was which Jewish life is booming again in Berlin. First thou inagain First Berlin. life is booming Jewish Jewish cultural life in Berlin is flourishing as a re as a life in Berlin is flourishing cultural Jewish Jewish Culture Day2015 in a creative process. Audiences were able to im to able were Audiences process. in a creative few meters of poster board for his presentations. 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Day, Culture Jewish first our In hosted 2015, we sult. draws was a performance-lecture by David Solomon, Solomon, David by a performance-lecture was draws er in Beirut in June 2015, audiences listened as the the as listened 2015, in audiences June in Beirut er revolution in one hour”, awing the audience with the the with audience the hour”, awing in one revolution man capital, and now young Israelis are coming too. too. coming are Israelis young now and capital, man permitted to sing only to other women, while others others while women, other to sing only to permitted messages. while others objected only to certain electronic electronic certain to only objected others while who is now well-established as a pop star among among star apop as well-established is now who main the of One 700 visitors. nearly attracted which

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Heinrich Böll House Langenbroich Artists around the world take stands on political and social issues. The associa- tion of the Heinrich Böll House Langenbroich provides artists and writers with stipends that enable them to engage in creative work – undisturbed, without fi- nancial concerns, and free from persecution and censorship – for a period of sev- eral months. The association is financed by the Heinrich Böll Foundation together with the city of Düren and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Abdul Razzak Shabballout in his atelier Image: Private

A Tradition of Hospitality The Böll family purchased the house, located in Ger- ical persecution in Syria. In Langenbroich he found many’s Eifel region, in the 1960s. It served as their the tranquility and strength to start painting again. summer residence, where Annemarie and Heinrich His hyperrealistic portraits and still life paintings Böll found the tranquility to conduct their literary awaken memories of his family and friends and ra- work. The house garnered public attention when Al- diate a call to new life. By illuminating the tragedy eksandr Solzhenitsyn found initial refuge there fol- in Syria, his art is also directed toward a German lowing his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974. audience. Heinrich Böll House Langenbroich House Böll Heinrich After Heinrich Böll’s death, family members, friends, the city of Düren, the town of Kreuzau, the state Mohammad al-Attar (born in 1980), playwright from of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Heinrich Böll Syria. He is one of Syria’s most acclaimed young Foundation joined together to establish the associa- playwrights and is considered a chronicler of his war- tion “Heinrich Böll House Langenbroich”, with the torn country. His works have been performed world- aim of turning the house into a refuge where selected wide – including, most recently, the play “Antigone of artists can work in peace and freedom for an extend- Shatila”, which was staged at the Thalia Theater in ed period of time. An independent jury awards sti- Hamburg and at the Les rencontres à l’echelle theat- pends that are financed by the Heinrich Böll Founda- er festival in Marseilles. In this new interpretation of tion and the Böll Fund (operated by the state of North Sophocles’ “Antigone” – a drama about flight, strug- Rhine-Westphalia to assist artists who are persecut- gle, pride and resistance – women who have fled Syr- ed on political grounds). ia retell this ancient story from their own highly per- sonal, culture-specific perspective. Our guests in 2015 Abdul Razzak Shaballout (born in 1974), painter Additional guests in 2015 included visual artist Roya from Damascus, Syria. He served as lecturer in the Issa and writer Ramy Al Asheq, both from Damas- fine arts department at Damascus University, but cus, Syria. They were introduced in our 2014 annual fled to Beirut after he found himself subject to polit- report.

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Scholarship and Fellowship Program – Giving a Life to Young Talent We provide support to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from both Germany and abroad, in all fields of study. Our aim is to discover promising tal- ent and to enhance its potential. In this way, we hope to encourage young people to become globally engaged in the pursuit of the Foundation’s objectives: more de- mocracy, solidarity, environmental action, sustainable policies, and human rights.

“Green promotion of gifted students makes a difference” – This was our slogan to celebrate the Scholarship Program’s 25th anniversary. Our new fellows for 2015 joined the festivities.

Who receives support? Where are our fellows now? Key results In 2015, the Foundation’s Scholarship Program of a study on the paths our alumni selected 194 new fellows in a three-stage selection have taken (September 2015) process involving 2,023 applicants. Last year, a to- tal of 978 undergraduate and graduate students as ▸ To date, 98% of our undergraduate and grad- well as 215 doctoral candidates received financial uate fellows and 84% of our doctoral fellows support (58% women, 42% men). The Foundation’s have completed their degrees – most of them target regions for selecting international fellows are with first-rate marks. Central and Eastern Europe, countries belonging to ▸ 42% of our alumni entered a profession im- the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and mediately after finishing their studies, and Scholarship and Fellowship Program the Middle East and North Africa (in this region, our another 42% did so during the following focus is primarily on students from Egypt, Lebanon, months, generally in positions that corre- Morocco, Tunisia and Syria). 28% of our internation- sponded to their level of qualification. 47% al fellows came from countries outside the EU. The of our male fellows and 42% of our female largest national contingent of international fellows fellows now hold management positions. was from Russia (16), followed by Syria (8), Iran (7) ▸ 81% are (very) satisfied with their profes- and Egypt (5). sional achievements. Approximately 70% say that their stipends played a (very) signif- Advice – Training – Networking icant role in their personal and professional In addition to financial support, the Scholarship Pro- development – this is particularly the case gram provides fellows with personalized advisory for alumni with an immigrant background services to help them plan their course of study. We or who come from families with no academic also offer networking opportunities as well as an ex- background. tensive program of events including seminars, work- ▸ 90% of our alumni take part in volunteer ac- shops, study trips, and much more. Our aim is to spur tivities, primarily in the fields of environmen- political debate, impart crucial skills, encourage tal protection, politics, human rights, edu- interdisciplinary dialogue, and promote social and cation, and the promotion of integration and political activism. At the same time, we place a high equal opportunity. priority on promoting self-organization, independent thinking and action, and conceptual skills.

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Award Winners in 2015 The Heinrich Böll Foundation issues numerous awards and co-sponsors various additional honors. Our most important awards are the Anne Klein Women’s Award and the Peace Film Award, as well as the biannual Petra Kelly Prize (not awarded in 2015).

2015 Peace Film Award: Joshua Oppenheimer The 30th Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Fes- tival was presented to “The Look of Silence” by Joshua Oppen­ heimer – a documentary depicting the atrocities that occurred in Indonesia after an attempted coup in 1965. Over a period of months, more than a million people were brutally and indiscrimi- nately murdered. Many of the perpetrators remain in positions of power, because the crimes were never resolved. In presenting the award, the jury stated: “In his stirring film, Oppenheimer succeeds Joshua Oppenheimer in shattering a social taboo. The result is a film that plumbs the depths of human cruelty while simultaneously highlighting what is hopefully our equally developed capacity for reconciliation.” The Peace Film Award is endowed with 5,000 euros and is awarded to- gether with a bronze sculpture by the artist Otmar Alt.

Anne Klein Women’s Award: Nebahat Akkoç

The 2015 Anne Klein Women’s Award was presented to Kurdish ac- Award Winners tivist Nebahat Akkoç for her resistance against state and domestic violence and for her defense of human rights and the rights of wom- en. She founded the women’s rights organization KAMER, which offers women counseling services, legal assistance, shelter, and support in attaining economic independence. In issuing the award, the jury stated: “Nebahat Akkoç stands up fearlessly to violence – she too continues to receive personal threats – and she refuses to Nebahat Akkoç accept gender-based violence and every form of unequal treatment. In this way, she serves as an inspiration to women in southeastern Turkey and far beyond.” Ms. Akkoç is the fourth recipient of the Anne Klein Women’s Prize, which is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Reporting Award for Young Journalists The winners of the 2015 Reporting Award for Young Journalists were Nora Burgard-Arp (1st place), Mariel Müller, Alexandra Reinsberg and Elisabeth Winter (2nd place), and Anke Dankers (3rd place). The Reporting Award is co-sponsored by JungeJour- nalisten.de (an online network for journalists), the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Zeit online (the online version of the weekly news- paper Die Zeit). The 1st prize winner receives 1,500 euros.

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Notable Guests in 2015

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Taiye Selasi – British writer and photographer with Vidulfo Rosales Sierra – lawyer at the Tlachinollan Hu- roots in Nigeria and . In her essays and short sto- man Rights Center in Mexico. He represents the families ries, Selasi portrays a new generation of African world of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa. He visited citizens, whom she calls “Afropolitans”. In February the foundation in October 2015 to report on the system- 2015, as part of the event series “Literary Topographies atic practice of enforced disappearances in Mexico. of Colonialism”, she discussed the 21st-century African diaspora with cultural studies scholar Peggy Piesche and read excerpts from her works. Notable Guests

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Naoto Kan – Prime Minister of Japan during the nucle- Joumana Seif – Syrian activist for women’s rights and ar disaster of March 2011. He depicted his experiences peace. She advocates a more prominent role for women during the Fukushima crisis in a book that appeared in in peace processes. As a member of the Syrian Women’s 2012. In October, he presented the German translation Initiative for Peace and Democracy, she works together of his book, which was published in 2015, at the Frank- with numerous organizations including UN Women. She furt Book Fair. He took this occasion to visit the Hein- participated in a panel discussion at our international rich Böll Foundation in Berlin, where he gave a speech feminist conference “Dare the im _ possible”, where on crisis management and the lessons learned from the she reported on violence against women in the Syrian triple disaster in Fukushima. conflict.

Gloria Atiba-Davies – Investigator at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Her work focuses in par- ticular on sexual and gender-based violence, crimes against children, and victim and witness protection. Pri- or to working at the ICC, she was principal state counsel in her home country of Sierra Leone. She attended our international feminist conference “Dare the im_possi- ble” in October 2015, where she took part in a panel dis- cussion on wartime sexual violence. Image: Stephan Röhl 22 23

Addresses

Date: August 2016

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Who We Are, What We Do The Heinrich Böll Foundation is part of the Green political To achieve our goals, we seek strategic partnerships with oth- movement that has developed worldwide as a response to the ers who share our values. We are an independent organization, traditional politics of , , and conservatism. that is, we determine our own priorities and policies. Our main tenets are ecology and sustainability, democracy and We are based in the Federal Republic of Germany, yet we human rights, self-determination and justice. We place parti­ are an international actor in both ideal and practical terms. cular emphasis on gender democracy, meaning social eman­ci- ­ Our namesake, the writer and Nobel Prize laureate pation and equal rights for women and men. We are also com- Heinrich Böll, personifies the values we stand for: defense of mitted to equal rights for cultural and ethnic minorities and to freedom, civic courage, tolerance, open debate, and the val- the societal and political participation of immigrants. Finally, uation of art and culture as independent spheres of thought we promote non-violence and proactive peace policies. and action.

We Are a Green Think Tank We work actively for the development of a political We promote democratic reforms and social European public. innovation. We support the participation of civil society in poli- We work on ecological policies and sustainable tics and, within the framework of multilateral orga- development on a global level. nisations, take part in conferences and negotiations. We provide space for presenting and discussing art and culture. We Are Active on Ecology, Democracy, We transfer knowledge and skills from experts to and Human Rights Worldwide political actors. We consider ecology and democracy to be We provide a forum for open debate and promote inseparable. dialogue between politics, business, academia, and We therefore support individuals and projects that society. are committed to ecology, human rights, democracy, We support talented students active on socio- and self-determination. political issues both in Germany and abroad. We support respect for the rule of law and We document the history of the Green movement democratic participation in all parts of the world. in order to promote research and provide political We promote the abolition of conditions of inspiration. dominance, dependency, and violence between the sexes. We Are an International Policy Network We consider ethnic and cultural diversity to be an We are part of the global Green network and prom­ essential part of democratic culture. ote the development of the Green political move- We encourage civic and civil-society activism. ment on all continents. We train activists so that they can successfully We focus especially on the broadening and deep­ self-organize and participate in political processes. ening of the European Green movement.

Our Culture Commitment, expert and social competence, creativity and We constantly evaluate and improve our work. We undertake flexibility are features of our employees, both in Germany and and take seriously both internal and external evaluations. We abroad. They are highly qualified, team-oriented and, with handle the funds at our disposal economically and efficiently their high level of motivation, they constitute the most impor- and assure transparent operations. tant asset of the Foundation. We work in close co-operation with our co-foundations in Equality of opportunity and respectful dealings between all of Germany’s 16 states. women and men of different ages, religions, ethnic origins and We are a reliable partner for volunteer work and for co-­ sexual orientations are constitutive for the foundation. Inter- operation with third parties. As a political foundation, we act cultural competence and a productive engagement with diver- independently; this also applies in respect to our relationship sity are part of our corporate culture. with the German Green Party. Mutual respect and trusting co-operation among ourselves We are autonomous in selecting our executive officers and and with our partners are the bases of our business relation- staffing our committees. ships. The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green cal education programs with its project partners abroad is on Party and headquartered in the heart of Berlin, is a legally a long-term basis. Additional important instruments of inter- independent political foundation working in the spirit of in- national cooperation include visitor programs, which enhance tellectual openness. The Foundation’s primary objective the exchange of experiences and political networking, as well is to support political education both within Germany and as basic and advanced training programs for committed acti- abroad, thus promoting democratic involvement, sociopo- vists. The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Scholarship Pro- litical activism, and cross-cultural understanding. The gram considers itself a workshop for the future; its activities Foundation also provides support for art and culture, science include providing support to especially talented students and and research, and development cooperation. Its activities are academicians, promoting theoretical work of sociopolitical guided by the fundamental political values of ecology, demo- relevance, and working to overcome the compartmentaliza- cracy, solidarity, and non-violence. Heinrich Böll’s call tion of science into exclusive subjects. Ralf Fücks and on citizens to meddle in politics is the example upon which Barbara Unmüßig are the current Presidents. Dr. Livia ­Cotta the work of the Foundation is modeled. The Heinrich is the CEO of the Foundation. The members assembly, Böll Foundation strives to stimulate sociopolitical reform comprised of 49 persons, is the Foundation’s foremost deci- by acting as a forum for debate, both on fundamental issues sion-making organ; its responsibilities include electing the and those of current interest. The Foundation places particu- Presidents. Expert advisory boards (7–10 people each) are lar importance on attaining gender democracy – signifying staffed by independent experts who consult with the Founda- a relationship between the sexes characterized by freedom tion and formulate suggestions regarding conceptual issues from dependence and dominance. The Heinrich Böll raised in the educational programs. The Foundation’s Foundation’s educational activities have a political basis, an by-laws provide for a quota of women and immigrants on all ethical outlook, and strive to promote various forms of cul- the Foundation’s bodies and among its full-time staff. tural expression. The Foundation supports art and culture as The Foundation currently maintains foreign and project of- part of its political education work and as a crucial element fices in Brussels, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, of each society’s self-image. By way of its international­ ­Greece, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Serbia, Israel, Le- collaboration with a large number of project partners the banon, the Arab Middle East, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya, Nige- Foundation aims to strengthen ecological and civic activism ria, South Africa, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Pakistan, on a global level, to intensify the exchange of ideas and ex- ­India, Afghanistan, China, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, El Salvador periences, and to keep our sensibilities alert for change. and the United States. In 2015, the Foundation had about The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s collaboration on sociopoliti- 57.6 million euros in public funds at its disposal.

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