GERMANY

IFFF / WILPF - Germany
St. Michaelsweg 2 A
D - 86476 Neuburg
irm.heilberger@t-online.de
www.internationalefrauenliga.de
Tel: +49 82 83 92 927
Fax: +49 82 83 92 929

President Irmgard Heilberger
St. Michaelsweg 2 A
D - 86476 Neuburg
irm.heilberger@t-online.de
Tel: +49 8283 92 927
Fax: +49 8283 92 929

Secretary Anja Witte
Graefestraße 71
10967 Berlin
030/29002908
anja@notmail.org

Vice-President Marianne Brün
Trabener Str. 41
D - 14193 Berlin
manni@snafu.de
Tel: +49 30 892 8666

Treasurer Anne Ley
Rheinstr. 47
D - 46509 Xanten
anne.ley@gmx.de
Tel: +49 2801 706 637

EU Coordinator/IEC Member Heidi Meinzolt-Depner
Kreuzweg 6
D - 82131 Stockdorf
meinzolt-depner@t-online.de
Tel: +49 89 89 979 690
Fax: +49 89 89 979 690

Trafficking in Women Eleanore Broitzmann
Pestalozzistr. 13
D - 86415 Mering
Tel: +49 8233 3952
BRANCH CONTACTS

Berlin Monika Nur
Bamberger Str. 60
D - 10777 Berlin
monikanur@web.de
Tel: +49 30 214 23 21
Fax: +49 30 214 23 21

Munich Brigitte Obermayer
Schneidemüller Str. 16
D - 81929 München
libri1@t-online.de
Tel: +49 89 93 23 92
Fax: +49 89 93 23 92

Number of members: 100 (Fill in the blank or amend)

Section website:www.internationalefrauenliga.de

Section 2005 Income: Expense:

What does your Section need from the 2006 IEC and what are the specific decisions that you would like to see this IEC make to further your work?
Coordination with other WILPF sections, inspiration, synergies

Geneva Office
We would like some feedback on the section mailing
Structure was okay, in spring we didn't get it or not in time.

What information from the Geneva Office would be helpful to you?
Short information on international activities undertaken from Geneva,
Updated UN-Calendar,

How could we improve communication between us?
More communicative website - with a part of blogs, direct intervention possibility, exchanges, same model for all other (national) websites

UN Office (New York)
What information from the UN Office would be helpful to you?
Peacewomen is fine!!

What do you see as priority issues for the work of the UN Office?
Peacewomen /newsletter + follow up UN Peace Commission, HR Council

How could we improve communication between us?
It is fine!

Do you use the Reaching Critical Will website?
If so for what? What is the most useful? What would make the site more useful for you?
Some of us use it for disarmament issues

Do you read the RCW E-news reports on CD, UN GA 1st Committee, NPT?

Not really!

What could be improved?
It is our lack of time!

Do you use the Peace Women website?
If so for what? What is the most useful? What would make the site more useful for you?
Very useful and informative - key website for a lot of activities and giving WILPF a high profile and visibility in the scene

Do you read the Peace Women E-news?
Yes

What could be improved?
Fine!

Does the work of your section relate to the United Nations?
If so how?
Especially through the activities on 1325

Does your section work on WILPF's International Program?
What is your main focus?
1325 and peaceful conflict solution

Global Economic Justice?
How?
It is combined to other issues and we have it in mind!

Environmental Sustainability?
How?
Some water activities!

Disarmament and Demilitarization?
How?
Cooperation in the German network " abolition 2020"
Seminary in Berlin with Regina Hagen and Susi Snyder
Irmgard was ready to participate in the WILPF working group of disarmament but after one contact no information followed

Water?
How?
Seminary with Roula Zoubiane and Regina Birchem, in Berlin,

SCR 1325/Women and Peace and Security Issues?
How?
Cooperation in the network of the German Women Security Council: lobbying on the implementation of 1325
Participation in international/European activities (Social Forum Athens, Peace saloon Paris…)

Women's political participation?
How?
Lobbying letters, our own participation in forums on all level of decision making if possible, workshops
Contacts to political parties and NGOs
Cooperation with the Platform on Civilian Conflict Solution in Germany (combined with the cooperation in GPS/EPLO

Sexual and Gender based violence issues?
How?

a) Trafficking Women - action stop illegal prostitution around the Football championship together with several women's organisations
b) Participation in the coordination against violence and trafficking

What is the political situation in your country?

Change of government from red-green coalition to the "big coalition" - Social democrats and Christian democrats with Angela Merkel, first women chancellor as a powerful mediator. Her conservative spirit and her sense of negotiating does not make very clear a political profile but gives free access of right wing ideas and forces to act.
Nearly un-existing opposition: Greens are still attracted by power games having difficulties to find their new role, liberals are too near to CDU( neoliberalism),the left party is a mixture of frustrated syndicalists from the west, old Nomenklatura from the east and some interesting (young) people.
The poorer you are the more you pay the "reforms": higher TVA, higher sanitary costs, social cuts
Foreign and Security politics: new "white book" on "defence strategy" which tries to legitimate officially military interventions outside the country (already in practice since the Kosovo war) in "German interest" (anti-terrorist fights, against fundamentalists, for resources...), the possibility of military use also in the country (starting already with the football championship). Interesting for us: action plan on civil conflict solution (problem: finances, totally un-gendered, strategically less used). The new government confirmed that there will not be an action plan on 1325. German government now starts to admit that we are officially a migration country but at the same time new barriers against the integration of in Germany working migrant workers are built. We are confronted with raising of violent activities of neo-fascist groups.