Democracy and Human Rights

Heinrich Boell Stiftung AMEO is happy to announce the continuation of its support for Arab digital activists in the Arab world. Together with our partner Global Voices Online, we seek to strengthen the collaboration between non-digital and digital activism, to introduce non digital civil society with new media tools and to make their voices heard.

The human rights lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Raji Sourani, has won the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. It is the first time that a Palestinian has won the award. The Heinrich Böll Foundation is delighted about this decision and has congratulated Sourani on this outstanding achievement...

The Euro-Med Conference of civil society organizations and networks “Women’s Rights and Democracy Building: Promoting a common agenda for equality between women and men” took place on 7 – 8 June in Amman, Jordan. The Heinrich-Böll-Foundation was among the supporters of the conference, which was organized by the European Feminist Initiative IFE-EFI and other organizations from the MENA region among them Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s partners Arab Women’s Organization (AWO) from Jordan and Women’s Studies Centre (WSC) from Palestine..

After six years without elections in the Palestinian Territories, at least parts of the Palestinian population in the West Bank had the chance to cast their votes again on 20 October 2012. HBS Ramallah observed the elections with a small team. Read the Election Observation statement and an analysis by hbs office director Dr. René Wildangel...

Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy organized its 18th Annual Conference on 21-22 September in Ramallah, with the support of Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Ramallah Office.The conference was held under the title “Two Years on the Arab Revolutions - Questions and Fault Lines”...