Section President:Irmgard Heilberger |
Address: Michaelsweg 2a |
City, State/Province:Neunurg |
Postal Code:D 86476 |
Telephone:+49828392927 |
Fax Number:+49 8283 92927 |
Work and/or Mobile Number: |
Email Address:Irm.Heilberger@t-online.de |
Section IEC Member: |
Address: Heidi Meinzolt |
City, State/Province:Stockdorf |
Postal Code:D-82131 |
Telephone:+49 89 89979690 |
Fax Number: |
Work and/or Mobile Number: |
Email Address:Meinzolt-Depner@t-online.de |
Section Fundraising Contact:
(Per the decision at the IEC 2006 each Section is to appoint a fundraising contact person)
Anne Ley |
Address: Rheinstr.47 |
City, State/Province:Xanten |
Postal Code:46509 |
Telephone:+49 2801706637 |
Fax Number: |
Work and/or Mobile Number: |
Email Address:Anne.Ley@gmx.de |
2008 International Directory:
Please review your copy of the International Directory and provide all additional contacts and/or information that you would like to be listed in the 2008 International Directory. For example: Section Office, Section Treasurer, Secretary, Branch Contacts, etc.
New vice president: Nouri Ali-Tani, Haus 5, Max-Brauer-Allee 127, Tel +49 40 32871988
e-mail: nouriade@yahoo.de
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Section Information:
Number of members: 80 (Fill in the blank or amend)
Section website: www.internationalefrauenliga.de
Section 2006 Income: 16.712,14 EURO Expense: 17.997,55 EURO
Committee or Working Group that your IEC Member participates in: Middle East Committee |
What does your Section need from the 2007 Congress and what are the specific decisions that you would like to see this Congress make to further your work? Please place an X beside those that apply.
X___ Development of 3-year Programme
___ Development of Committee or Working Group. Please specify.
__X_ Adoption of Policy. Please specify. WILPF's position in "intervention"
___ Adoption of Resolution. Please specify.
___ Adoption of Constitutional Amendment Please specify.
___ Specific Proposal from your Section. Please specify.
___ Other. Please list below:
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Geneva Office |
We would like some feedback on the section mailing. Do you like the frequency and length? What topics would you like to see covered?
Is ok!
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What information from the Geneva Office would be helpful to you?
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What do you see as priority issues for the work of the Geneva Office?
Fundraising !! and short informations about actual debates in the UN-Geneva
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How could we improve communication between us (E-Mail, Conference Calls, Section Visits)?
The idea of a new website co-ordinated with section websites would be really fine soon!
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UN Office (New York) |
What information from the UN Office would be helpful to you?
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What do you see as priority issues for the work of the UN Office?
The most important input is from the 2 projects
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How could we improve communication between us (E-Mail, Conference Calls, Section Visits)?
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Do you use the Reaching Critical Will website? |
Yes |
No |
If so for what? What is the most useful? What would make the site more useful for you?
It is for specialists!
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Do you read the RCW E-news reports on CD, UN GA 1st Committee, NPT?
Too extensive materials; we are not able to read all and regularly;
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What could be improved?
We propose to name in round mails new aspects on the website – title, 2 sentences to the subject - and then interested people can go on the website; it would be better than to send all these extensive materials around !
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Do you use the Peace Women website? |
Yes |
No |
If so for what? What is the most useful? What would make the site more useful for you?
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Do you read the Peace Women E-news?
Very useful the list of best practices
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What could be improved?
nothing
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Does the work of your section relate to the United Nations? |
Yes |
No |
If so how?
On 1325, on disarmament, HR of course
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Does your section work on WILPF’s International Program? |
Yes |
No |
What is your main focus?
1325,
Involvement in Peace movement in Germany – networking within the Women Security Council in Germany
Middle East activities
Cultural events
Trafficking in Women
Anti-globalisation
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Global Economic Justice? |
Yes |
No |
How?
G 8 in Germany – participation and positioning in the NGO community
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Environmental Sustainability? |
Yes |
No |
How?
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Disarmament and Demilitarization |
Yes |
No |
How?
Conference against the NATO-"Security"-Conference each year – subject this year: danger of civil-military cooperation this year
Lobbying together with IPPNW for nuclear disarmament
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Water? |
Yes |
No |
How?
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SCR 1325/Women and Peace and Security Issues? |
Yes |
No |
How?
Within the German Women Security Council - co-organisation of a European networking conference towards 1325 "A Roadmap to 1325"; lobbying for a national action plan in Germany – without success until now.
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Women’s political participation? |
Yes |
No |
How?
Being active in the political daily life
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Sexual and Gender based violence issues? |
Yes |
No |
How?
Action on the 8.3.
During the fottball championship many public actions against forced prostitution and trafficking together with other organisations
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What is the political situation in your country?
Stable "Big Coalition" between conservative and social democratic party – some Social Democrats look more conservative than their party and vice versa. Angela Merkel, first women chancellor is 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. As EU and G8 president she has a big say.
Concerning "peace politics" this government continues to transform the German army into an international intervention force which is "still" against the German constitution. Growing military expenses are the answer – still tolerated by the population – the propaganda on anti-terrorism and HR engagement works. Merkel and her government favoured the envoy of Tornado airplanes to support US leaded military operations in Afghanistan (after a big parliamentary discussion)and so Germany takes actively part in the intervention strategy – even if most of the German participation in the war is a combined civilian –military engagement – leaded more and more by military means and logistics ("Germany defends its freedom also at the Hindukusch" as the former defence minister Struck said);
Concerning the US plans for a defence shield in Poland and Tchec Republic, AM is in favour of a NATO engagement – to bind the US decisions in a multilateral body, the foreign minister Steinmeier instead criticises openly a unilateral US engagement. Large parts of the German population refuse any engagement in this direction. But the transatlantic partnership is more important for the government – good relationship to the US, so that no clear decision is made.
AM tries to strengthen and push verbally forward environmental issues (in Europe/EU(G8). Symbolic rhetoric on global responsibility against climat change (slogan: "groth and global resp.") is in contradiction with ongoing economic liberalisation, opening of markets and the promotion of private investments through governmental and EU initiatives; the Christian democrats opened a discussion on a revival of nuclear energy against climate change. The car industry mahkes a lot of pressure against EU-Co2 measures.
The G8 movement is criminalised since a long time and enormous money is spent for "security" measures (the fence around the hotel for international guests only costs more than 15 million €) against announced democratic demonstrations and planed actions of the civil society which are supported also by WILPF Germany.
Internal disputes between conservative forces on a more innovative family policy acknowledging the diversity of life especially also for women are paralysing innovations.
Social problems grow in large parts of the society ("new poverty"), but social cuts for example in the health sector and on tax reform are going on. In the educational sector, international studies blame Germany for its socially discriminating system.
In the Human Rights sector, we are faced with a disastrous refugee policy, sending people back to Iraq and other war regions of the world and imprisoning people already on the border or at airports.
The protection of data is more and more limited and so fundamental rights are more and more neglected accompanied by a growing public debate. The minister of internal affairs (Schäuble) introduced biometric passports, observation of public space…and other measures .
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