LGBTI Inclusion in Foreign Policy and international development (best practices)
Please note that there is a recording of the HighLevel event “Assisting Human Rights Defenders on the Ground: LGBTI Inclusion in Foreign Policy and international development (best practices)”, from June 29, 2021. Here is the link to the recording.
On 23rd September 2021 Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation held a webtalk entitled “Women Huma Rights Defenders: How Intersectionality is put into Practice in Southern Africa.” Three Human Rights Defenders were invited to the online discussion, all of them actively engaged with the Masakhane* Project.
Three activists from lesbian, bi- and queer women’s collectives in Mozambique and Eswatini discuss the current developments which have impacts on their work in their respective countries. They explain how the concept of intersectionality is being put into practice amidst often violent challenges. We will also hear about the feminist strategy of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) and their experiences.
Fotos des Filmseminars vom 16. September 2021 im District * School without Center
Fotos: Claudia Reinhardt
Einladung: (Invitation - english)
Poster: Still in Touch – 16 Sep 2021 (Download Poster PDF)
Program: (Download Flyer PDF)
Rund 50 Zuschauer*innen kamen am 16. September von 18–22 Uhr zur Filmveranstaltung „Still in touch – on queer friendhips & poetic forms of resistance” clipclub@district im Berliner Kunst- und Kulturzentrum District in der Malzfabrik zusammen. Kuratiert von Karin Michalski thematisierte der Abend die Schnittstellen von Kunst, transnationalem Aktivismus und Menschenrechten.
Online-Talk: Thursday, 23 September 2021, 5 – 6 pm
Activists from lesbian, bi- and queer women’s collectives in Mozambique and Eswatini will inform us of the current developments that are impacting their work in their respective countries. They will explain how the concept of intersectionality is being put into practice amidst often violent challenges. We will also hear about the feminist strategy of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) and their experiences.
We will also discuss what the growing threat to LGBTI people in various countries means for us in Germany, particularly in view of the German government’s new LGBTI Inclusion Strategy for Foreign Policy and Development Cooperation.
Fotos des Filmseminars vom 16. September 2021
Einladung zur Filmveranstaltung am 16. Sep 2021
(all details in English below)
Wir laden herzlich ein zu unserer Filmveranstaltung „Still in touch – on queer friendships & poetic forms of resistance“. Der Abend thematisiert die Schnittstellen von Kunst, transnationalem Aktivismus und Menschenrechten. Eine Einladung zu Videokunst, Talks und Musik bei clipclub@district*. Als Präsenzveranstaltung!
Wann: Do, 16. September, 18:00–21:00 Uhr (Einlass ab 17 Uhr, Ende 22:00)
Wo: district, Bessemer Str. 2, 12103 Berlin-Tempelhof/Malzfabrik
Invitation (english)
Einladung (deutsch)
Bericht (deutsch)
Buchrezension (Review — deutsch)
Online talk with author Mark Gevisser
South African author Mark Gevisser was invited to an online talk by the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation to present his new book The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, which has recently also appeared in German. Klaus Jetz hosted the talk with the journalist from Cape Town.
Article (english)
Einladung (deutsch)
Bericht (deutsch)
Buchrezension (Review — deutsch)
The Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation cordially invites you to the Online talk with Mark Gevisser about his new fascinating book “The Pink Line — the World´s Queer Frontiers” and the fight for their rights of LGBTIQ+ people all over the world.
Tuesday, 22 June, 6 PM (CEST)
Online talk with experts from Sweden and Canada
On 12 May 2021 the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation (HES) held an online talk about LGBTI inclusion in the development cooperation work of both Sweden and Canada. The event was hosted by Sarah Kohrt. The guests from Sweden were Birgitta Weibahr from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and Marie Månson from the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Rights (RFSL). Doug Kerr, Executive Director of Dignity Network Canada, a coalition of Canadian organizations supporting LGBTI human rights, provided information from a Canadian perspective.
The Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation cordially invites you to a Web-talk on „LGBTI inclusion in Sweden´s and Canada´s development cooperation“ with Doug Kerr, Dignity Network Canada, Birgitta Weibahr, Sida and Marie Månson, RFSL
Wednesday, 12 May, 4–5 PM CEST
Activists describe current developments in Tunisia
Ten years have transpired since the “Arab Spring” was touched off in Tunisia. The country has had a new constitution now for seven years. But homosexuality is still criminalized under article 230, and large-scale protests have broken out numerous times since November 2020. Reports of arbitrary detention, violence and oppression against civil society are on the rise – what exactly is going on in the country?