"Top Girls" (2021) Published: 4 November 2021 The play has been included in the 15 best plays of all time. The performance combines drama, classical and electronic music, opera, and elements of movement; it leaves the traditional scene and enters the country's main football field.
Economical and Practical Challenges of Care Work [March - December 2021] Published: 29 October 2021 This project by “Communico Society”, plans to prepare interviews, discussions and multimedia materials about the diverse experiences, needs, and rights of women involved in care work.
Emerging Political Feminism in Azerbaijan: The Most Visible Other Published: 26 October 2021 This article points out how the various consolidated apparatuses render feminism and feminists the most visible other by utilizing different othering techniques such as criminalization and securitization. What is more, it depicts how feminism and women's issues started to get politicized, shifting from the "social/safe" to the "political/dangerous" space on a discursive level.
Zooming into Housing: Work, Care, and Safety Published: 30 September 2021 "There is a house in Baku where cis and trans women live together and support each other. They also don't allow any transphobic people or anyone who could potentially be a threat to move in," said a friend to me in a conversation that one usually has when you haven't seen each other in months and want to share the world over a cup of tea.
Pride and Prejudice: Georgia after the Escalation of Violence against Civil Society Published: 15 July 2021 More than 50 people were injured in attacks on journalists and civil society in Tbilisi in early July in connection with Pride Week. The German Federal Government and the EU should strongly urge their Georgian partners to address the violence through prompt and comprehensive legal and political action. By Dr. Sonja Schiffers
Women and voluntary work in post-war Armenia Published: 17 March 2021 During and after the 44-day war in Nagorno Karabakh, numerous initiatives were launched to assist people displaced in Armenia. Women played a particularly active role in providing humanitarian aid. This was due not only to the fact that men were involved in the war, but also to the experience women had gained from the first Karabakh war (1992-1994). The photo story tells about some of these active and assisting women.
Exhibition BAUHAUS WOMEN Published: 15 May 2019 On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Bauhaus art school in Weimar, Germany, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office in cooperation with the Goethe Center Yerevan initiated the exhibition BAUHAUS WOMEN in Tbilisi and Yerevan.
Armenian translations of 80’s feminist texts Published: 13 March 2019 The evening before the international women’s day, the hbs Tbilisi office Yerevan Branch presented its first Anthology of Armenian translations of 80’s feminist texts. More than 60 people attended the presentation that took Place at Zangak Publishing House, including five members of the Parliament.
LGBTI-focused videos created in Armenia and Georgia Published: 16 January 2018 The Heinrich Boell Foundation, within the framework of the 3-year EU-funded action, Solidarity Network for LGBTI in Armenia and Georgia, has produced a number of public service announcements (PSAs) in order to contribute to raising positive visibility on issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights.
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, Legal Gender Recognition Discussed at Round Table in Tbilisi Published: 14 December 2017 On November 20, 2017, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is marked annually in memory of trans* persons who have lost their lives to transphobic violence, the hbs South Caucasus Regional Office, held a round table meeting on issues of legal gender recognition (LGR) in Tbilisi.