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Welcome to the website of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung - India office

Introduction

The face of the India programme was carved out of its concern for various forms of prejudice, discrimination, exclusion, and violence amplified especially between diverse ethnic, communal and religious groups within India; the South Asian contours of globalization; the neglect of environmental concerns given the increasing pace of climate change; and the challenges to India’s democracy that lacks truly an emancipatory and participatory component.

Imperative to all programmes and projects of the Foundation is a commitment to gender justice and equality. Gender democracy is an overarching and crosscutting issue being mainstreamed in all activities and approaches.

National conferences and political campaigns on many critical issues, as well as active engagement with the international community on Global and South Asian experiences of democracy and inclusion have been key tools of political education to face political challenges. HBF India’s encouragement of new forms of civil society assertions has been significant in this light.

Our overall approach is to (a) generate opportunities of sharing, analysing and learning among formations of civil society (b) engaging in independent and critical analysis of societal trends and issues (c) enabling dialogue across varied perspectives, sectors and institutions of the concerned stakeholders.

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Climate & Resources

Policy Paper

The Green Economy – The New Magic Bullet?

May 11, 2012 - In this essay, the president of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Barbara Unmuessig, critically reflects on the opportunities for and the shortcomings of the concept of a "Green Economy" to influence economic policy making globally, its relationship to the paradigm of sustainable development and the need to rethink our understanding and focus on growth. Barbara Unmüßig more»

Pakistan - India Dialogue

Pakistan - India Track II, (Climate) Change for Peace

- February 27, 2012 - The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE - New Delhi) and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI - Islamabad), with the support of Heinrich Böll Stiftung India and Pakistan offices, organized a 3-days dialogue “Climate Change for Peace - Track II” in the Best Western Hotel, Islamabad, on 13th to 15th February 2012 more»

Report

Engendering the Climate for Change: Policies and practices for gender-just adaptation.

- September 28, 2011 - The research assesses policies and practices for gender-just adaptation in India. The recommendations are based on consultative research carried out in 3 States of India – viz Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. By Aditi Kapoor more»

International Politics

POLICY PAPERS

Foundation Newsletter and Resources on the G20

The Heinrich Böll Foundation publishes a monthly newsletter, the “G20 Update,” on the G20 Summit processes and outcomes with special emphasis on the contributions to the processes by civil society organizations (click here for the April 2012 issue. It also maintains a “drop box” of information and publications about the G20. more»

Article

2012 : A Review of Indo - Myanmar Relations

- April 23, 2012 - This is an attempt to provide an insight to the rationale for this policy being what it has been - a strategically pre-emptive effort to forestall Myanmar, a next door neighbor, from becoming a vehicle through which huge problems could be created for India. By Ranjit Gupta more»

Macroeconomics & Gender

Publication Series Ecology, Volume 21

The Future We Want - A Feminist Perspective

April 26, 2012 - The Future We Want – the motto chosen by the UN in the run-up to the June 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) – is certainly forward-looking. Rio+20 is supposed to define routes towards a safer, fairer, greener, and cleaner world. But the blueprints for a green economy are devoid of gender perspectives. Christa Wichterich’s essay takes a closer look on the relations between feminism and ecology. more»

South Asia Regional Autumn School

Global Finance and Human Security in South Asia: A Gender Perspective

- August 1, 2011 - Lady Shri Ram College for Women (University of Delhi) in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation is holding a South Asia Regional Autumn School on the theme - Global Finance and Human Security in South Asia: A Gender Perspective from November 1–5, 2011. more»

Publication Ecofair Trade Dialogue

Food Security, Human Rights and the India-EU FTA agreement

- December 21, 2011 - The European Union (EU) and the Government of India are currently negotiating a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that aims to liberalise 'substantially all trade' between the two trading blocks. This study assesses the possible impact of an FTA between India and the EU on the Human Right to Food in India. more»

Democracy and Conflict Resolution

Publication

A Critical Analysis of Fatwas Issued on Muslim Women in India

March 1, 2012 - In India, there have been some controversial Fatwas like the one against Taslima Nasreen, exiled Bangladeshi writer. This project covers an extensive assessment of various Fatwas against Muslim women and highlights whether these Fatwas are in congruence with the Quran. By Ms. Shazia Sheikh more»

North East India Women Initiative for Peace

- For more than a century women and women’s organisations and movements have mobilised support for social empowerment, economic justice, democracy, human rights and conflict prevention.

Report

Bearing Witness: A Report on the Impact of Conflict on Women in Nagaland and Assam

- September 21, 2011 - The stories of women and their families who have suffered silently in the decades of conflict between insurgents and Indian security forces - and between the idea of India and those who sought political and cultural spaces outside of it – come alive in ‘Bearing Witness: A Report on the Impact of Conflict on Women in Nagaland and Assam’. Edited by Sanjoy Hazarika and Preeti Gill more»

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