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WELCOME

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung, associated with the German Green Party, is a legally autonomous and intellectually open political foundation.

Our foremost task is political education in Germany and abroad with the aim of promoting informed democratic opinion, socio-political commitment and mutual understanding. In addition the Heinrich Böll Foundation supports artistic and cultural as well as scholarly projects, and co-operation in the development field. The political values of ecology, democracy, gender democracy, solidarity and non-violence are our chief points of reference.

Heinrich Böll's belief in and promotion of citizen participation in politics is the model for the foundation's work.

The Heinrich Böll Foundation's most important area of activity are its projects in developmental co-operation and international policy. With 22 offices worldwide, we currently support projects in more than 60 countries on four continents.

The Foundation has been supporting civil society
initiatives in Southern Africa since 1989, mainly
through funding, advocacy and networking.

Our programme areas are

.: DOWNLOADS

In 2007, HBS supported the Women on Farms Project (WFP) in the development of a casework resource manual for women farm workers.

The manual aims to assist the development of effective casework around the issues Human Rights, Land and Housing, Labour, Domestic violence, Social Security, Education, and Health.

To download the cover of the manual click here (pdf, 500kb).

To download the complete manual click here (pdf, 2mb).

ENGAGING PAST INJUSTICE TODAY: EXPERIENCES IN THE DOCUMENTATION
OF THE APARTHEID AND EAST GERMAN REGIMES

Speakers

Ms Marianne Birthler

(Federal Commissioner for the Records of the

State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic)

Mr Verne Harris

(Nelson Mandela Foundation)

To download an edited version of Marianne Birthler's speech click here (pdf).

EVENTS/NEWS

Elections
in Zimbabwe:
Dossier

An online dossier by HBS Southern Africa on the situation in Zimbabwe in the run-up to the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections

(Saturday 29th March 2008).

Access the dossier here.

PERSPECTIVES

Perspectives is a new publication of the HBS office Southern Africa. With this publication, we intend to let experts from Southern Africa express their views about current political issues in their region.