Gabriele Dietze

Lecturer in American Studies and Gender Studies at Humboldt University. Focus on Media Theory and Gender, Race and Post-colonial Theory.

Barbara Duden

Professor, Institute for Sociology, Hannover University

Barbara Duden is a social historian, working for many years on the history of somatic (self)-perception, particularly in women.
Within the framework of her rejection of the assumptions of the present, she has attempted to address a range of issues: the somatogenic effects of cancer prevention; the pathogenic effects of cultivating risk consciousness; the damaging rituals of prenatal diagnosis; genetic counselling as training in 'decision-making' and hormonal treatment, especially in aging women, as a paradigm for self-management.

She is motivated by a particular concern: women have been the target of medicalization in the post-war period and are now in danger of becoming the ultimate victims of the commodification of 'choice', the popularisation of risk-management and the need for 'taught self-determination'. Women's previous demands for "reproductive rights" and "reproductive self-determination" are becoming demands on women in the wake of new reproductive technologies, providing a new compulsory ‘choice’ between technical and professional set options.

Contact: b.duden@.ish.uni-hannover.de
Link: http://www.pudel.de/ 

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Asha Hagi Elmi Amin

Born in 1962 in D/Mareb, Somalia, Chairlady and founder of Save Somali Women & Children (SSWC) [Non-governmental & non-profit making Somali women organization, at a national level, established in 1992]

Member of the Federal Parliament in women ticket, Somali women leader and principal advocate of women’s crusade to participatory peace building and political decision-making process in Somalia. Became the first Somali woman to sign a peace agreement on behalf of the civil Society “Declaration on the Harmonization of Various Issues Proposed by the Somali Delegates at the Somali Consultative Meetings” (29th January 2004, State House, Nairobi, Kenya).

May-October 2000: Vice-Chair of the Chairing Committee of the Somalia Peace & Reconciliation Conference in Arte, Djibouti, & Chair of the Sixth Clan*. Several collateral responsibilities: Member of the 16 African Women’s Committee on Peace and Development (AWCPD) / Affiliated to AU-ECA, since it’s date of inception in ’98, Member of the Board in Africa Peace Forum (APF) and International Resource Group on Security and Small Arms in the Horn of Africa Region, Associate Member of the Femme Solidarite African (FAS).

Acknowledgements: Global Peace Ambassador at Mogadishu, Somalia (by IIFW, 2001), Personality of the Year in Peace Building in Somalia (2002), nominated as one of the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize” (29th June 2005).

* About the Sixth Clan: After a number of unsuccessful Peace and National Reconciliation Conferences for restoration of stability in Somalia, the first all inclusive and civil society-centered conference was called in May 1999 by IGAD at Arta, Djibouti.
Clan based allocations became the agreed mode of participation, where each of the 5 main clans in Somalia were acquainted as a stakeholders. But, due to patriarchal believe such arrangements gives no space to women which makes 52% of the total population. Then, we (women) registered our reservation and floated our proposal on the “Sixth Clan” for an independent women's participation and identity in the national conference. And, finally the women's concern was accommodated and from there we became equal participants in the conference decision-making process.
Impact: - Women's voice is heard and role in the conference appreciated - Space for women human rights in the national document - Affirmative action quota of 25 slots for women representation in the Federal Parliament.

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Gisela Anna Erler

Entrepreneur, Family Researcher, Author

In 1967, Gisela Anna Erler founded Munich Trikont Publishers, from 1974-1991 she worked at the Youth Institute in Munich, which included monitoring the model project “Tagesmutter” (“Day Care”) an international comparative study on issues of family and work.

In 1991 she founded the nationally active Familienservice, which has 15 branches and 150 staff. Familienservice supports the employees of over 150 businesses and government offices to improve their work-life balance, particularly with respect to child care and support to dependents with special needs. The service employs and trains caregivers, provides highly flexible facilities and advises business and (municipal) authorities on the concepts of work-life balance and diversity.

Since 2000, Gisela Anna Erler has been the programme director of the annual international “Work-Life and Diversity” Conference for personnel managers of big European and multi-national companies. Publications:

• Erler, Gisela Anna (1988), „Die Ent-Fesselung der Frau durch den Staat. Oder: gibt es eine Alternative zu Abraham Lincoln?„ In: Thomas Schmid (Hg.), Entstaatlichung. Neue Perspektiven auf das Gemeinwesen, Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, S.88-101
• Erler, Gisela (2003), „Ein Herz und eine Seele„, in: SZ-Magazin. Beilage der Süddeutsche Zeitung, v. 11.07.
• Porträts und Gespräche: Englisch, Gundula & Anette KOLB (2002), „Die Rollen werden neu gemischt„, in: Change X v. 14.08.
• Mies, Petra (2003), „Die Familien-Unternehmerin„, in: Frankfurter Rundschau v. 13.08.

More information: http://www.familienservice.de/

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Renée Ernst

Dr., Representative for the UN Millennium Campaign in Germany

The UN Millennium Campaign, led by Eveline Herfkens, is active in Germany. The campaign aims to communicate the aims of the goals more broadly, in order to promote their implementation The agreements for reaching the goals are communicated through this campaign. Since February 2005, Dr. Renée Ernst, has been responsible for the organisation and implementation of the national campaign. This national UN campaign is to strengthen the public interest in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

Before her engagement with the Millennium Campaign, Dr. Renée Ernst was the head of department for Project Management at the Bonn International Conversion Centre (BICC) a centre for disarmament, conversion and conflict management. Working in Africa, Asia and Latin America for over ten years, she gained field experience of international development cooperation. She is co-founder of the Women’s Security Council (http://www.un1325.org/) and also member of the founding group of the Platform for Civil Conflict Management, an umbrella organisation that lobbies for civil conflict prevention.

Joy Ngozi Ezeilo 

She is a lawyer and versatile scholar – activist/feminist with a Post Graduate Degree in Law from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London and a BL from the Nigerian Law School. She teaches Law at the University of Nigeria and Enugu Campus.
She attended the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg and holds diplomas in Gender Studies and Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Joy Ezeilo is presently a Federal Delegate to the on-going National Political Reforms Conference, representing women’s groups. She is involved in the Civil Society movement in Nigeria particularly for human rights, democracy and governance. She is the founder and chief executive officer of WACOL, an NGO which promotes human rights for women and young people. For her outstanding work she was honored with several national and international awards

Joy Ezeilo has published extensively in the area of human rights, women’s and children’s rights in Nigeria and Africa. She is married to the medical doctor Augustine Ezenta Ezeilo, the Enugu State Director of Public Health, with whom she has three children.

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Sangeeta Fager

Social Scientist

Sangeeta Fager works as a consultant on issues of migration and the biopolitics. In biopolitics, she is interested in the feminist dimensions of biomedical science and biotechnologies. She works as a conference advisor and organiser and also gives seminars on gender and diversity.
E-mail: sangeeta.fager@projektcompanie.de 

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Josefa "Gigi" S. Francisco

Executive Director, Women and Gender Institute, Miriam College (Philippines)
Asia Coordinator, International Gender & Trade Network (IGTN)
Southeast Asia Coordinator, Development Alternatives with Women for the New Era (DAWN)
Secretariat, Asia Pacific Women Watch / South East Asia Watch
Faculty Member, International Studies Department, Miriam College

Network Memberships: Founding Member, Asian Peace Alliance / Founding member, Asia Pacific Network on Food Sovereignty / Member, International Council for Adult Education / Member, International South Group Network

Academic Background: Undergraduate Program in International Studies, Miriam College / Graduate Degree in Asian Studies (Focus on China), University of the Graduate Degree in International Studies, Miriam College (ongoing)

Contact addresses: Women & Gender Institute, Miriam College, U.P. P. O. Box 110, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines 1101,
E-Mail :  jfrancisco@mc.edu.ph

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Inken Giza

Seit mehreren Jahren arbeitet sie in entwicklungs- und umweltpolitischen Bezügen und beschäftigt sich mit Frauen- und Gleichstellungspolitik – vor allem mit der Implementierung von Gender Mainstreaming und Gender Budgeting.

Fünf Jahre konnte sie im Umweltbundesamt ihre Erfahrungen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Zusammenarbeit mit Mittel- und Osteuropa und den Nachfolgestaaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion vertiefen und war aktives Mitglied der Pilotphase zur Einführung von Gender Mainstreaming im Umweltbundesamt.

Sie ist Mitglied der Initiative für einen geschlechtergerechte Haushaltsführung in Berlin. Seit Juni 2005 arbeitet sie als Beraterin für Frauen, Gender und Umweltfragen mit Schwerpunkt Osteuropa/ GUS.

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Andreas Goosses

Dozent für Gender&Diversity-Training

*1962, Diplom-Psychologe, Magister Artium, Studium der Psychologie, Lateinamerikanistik und Politikwissenschaft.
Selbständiger Psychologe mit eigener Praxis für Psychotherapie, Männerberatung und Coaching. Trainer und Dozent in den Bereichen, Gender&Diversity-Training, Gender Mainstreaming, Interkulturelle- u. Diversity-Kompetenz (Eine Welt der Vielfalt), Personaltraining und Organisationsentwicklung.

Lehrbeauftrager an der Freien Universität Berlin zu Gender&Diversity-Themen, Referent im wiss. Weiterbildungsangebot DiVersion: Managing Gender & Diversity der Universität Dortmund/ Frauenstudien und des Instituts für Kirche und Gesellschaft. Mitglied im Koordinationsrat des Forum Männer in Theorie und Praxis der Geschlechterverhältnisse. Vortragstätigkeit und Veröffentlichungen zu männerpolitischen und Gender&Diversity-Themen.

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Gudrun Graichen-Drück

Bonn; former staff member of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development; Head of departments "Women's Rights, Gender Equality" and "West-Africa".

Studies in History and Political Science, postgraduate training at German Development Institute; from 1969 to 2005 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development; working in many different fields, e.g. coordinating German- Algerian development cooperation at Embassy in Algiers; Special fields: Education, Women's and Children's Rights, gender equality, Maghreb, West Africa.

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Mona Granato

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB) im Arbeitsbereich 2.4 "Bildungsverhalten, Berufsverläufe, Zielgruppenanalyse".

Forschungsschwerpunkte: Untersuchungen an der Schnittstelle von Berufsbildungsforschung, Migrationsforschung und Frauenforschung mit dem Schwerpunkt berufliche Bildung ausgewählter Zielgruppen, u.a. Analysen zur beruflichen Qualifizierung (junger) Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund und junger Frauen, zur Berufseinmündung junger Fachkräfte sowie zum Ausbildungsverlauf.

Länderübergreifende Analysen zur Integration von Frauen und jungen Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in Ausbildung und Beruf sowie zur Mediennutzung und Freizeitgestaltung von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland. 
 
Studium der Politischen Wissenschaft, der Volkswirtschaftslehre und Islamwissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg; Promotion zum Thema
"Junge Frauen ausländischer Herkunft - Pluralisierung und Differenzierung ihrer Lebenslagen" an der Technischen Universität Berlin (1999).

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Sigrid Graumann

Sigrid Graumann took part in the graduate course, ‘Ethics in the Sciences’ at Tübingen University and the German government’s Commission on Ethics and Rights of Modern Medicine. She is research assistant at the Interfacultäre Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften, (Interfaculty Centre for Ethics in the Sciences) at Tübingen University.

She was research coordinator of the EU Project “European Network for Biomedical Ethics” (1997-1999). She is member of the board of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine and member of the Central Ethics Commission of the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer). She has teaching positions at the Charité, HU Berlin, in medical ethics for the reformed course in Medicine, and at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Women and Gender Research (Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung) of the TU, Berlin. She is research assistant at the Institute for People, Ethics and Science (Institut für Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft), Berlin.

Her main interests are in biomedical ethics, social ethics, genetic theory, public debate on ‘selection’ and ‘manipulation’ of life, gene diagnosis and gene therapy, prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnostics. There is information on numerous publications at the following website: http://www.imew.de/imew.php/action/article/aid/58

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Katrin Grüber

Director of the Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Berlin

• Education in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Tuebingen to qualify as a teacher (1976 to 1982)
• PhD in Biology at the Department for Developmental Physiology, University of Tuebingen (1983 to 1987); stay at the University of East Anglia, UK (Nov 1985 to June 1986)
• From 1990 to 2000 Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine Westfalia
• 1990 Head of the Committee Man and Technology; 1995-2000 Deputy speaker of the Parliament

From 1995 to 2000 Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf. In 2001 Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Nursing Science, University of Witten-Herdecke. Member of the Ethics Commission of the German Nurses Association (DBfK)

Special interests and background: Political science, Technology assessment; research policy on the national and European level, dialogue between science and civil society; the role of experts, lay people, disabled and chronically ill people and their relatives in decision making process.

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Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez

She teaches at the University of Manchester, UK, in cultural studies

Her key research and teaching areas are: Transcultural/Transnational Studies with a focus on migration and diaspora; Work, Subjectivity and Culture; Social, cultural and feminist theories with a focus on Spain, Germany and Latin-America; Sexuality, Gender, Ethnicity and „race“ as well as Postcoloniality and Europe.

Ms. Gutiérrez Rodríguez is currently working on a book on work and subjectivity focusing on transnational migration in Western Europe informed by a cultural studies perspective.

Contact : e.gutierrez@manchester.ac.uk

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Founder member of IT for Change, India 

Anita Gurumurthy is a founder member of IT for Change, http://www.itforchange.net/ an NGO in India that seeks to influence the information society’s debate through research and action. Anita’s core interests have included research and writing on development with a Southern perspective, with specific focus on areas such as gender, health, globalization, and information and communications technologies.

As a Research Consultant with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Anita is currently involved in a national level research study in India that seeks to map partnerships between the government and NGOs in the domain of public health delivery. Anita’s recent publications include her research study on ICT initiatives in South Asia that seek to empower women. The study was supported and published by UNIFEM. She is also the author of Gender and ICTs – a publication that is part of the cutting edge series from BRIDGE, IDS Sussex.

Contact: anitaguru@vsnl.com

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Regina Hagen

Coordinator of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP), based at the Interdisciplinary Working Group of Science, Technology and Security (IANUS) of the TU, Darmstadt

She is a co-editor of the “INESAP Information Bulletin”. As an expert in the disarmament of nuclear weapons, missile defence and space armaments, she is in great demand as a consultant. She has written many articles and is the translator and co-editor of books such as “Space Use and Ethics”, “Sicherheit und Überleben. Argumente für eine Nuklearwaffenkonvention” (“Security and Survival. Arguments for a Convention on Nuclear Weapon”) and “Per Express in die atomwaffenfreie Welt” (“By express into a nuclear weapon free world”).

As the link between scientists and those in the peace movement, she works at the grass-roots level with many NGOs, such as the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Global Council of Abolition 2000 and is the vice-President of the NGO Committee for Disarmament in Geneva. Locally, she belongs to the Darmstadt Peace Forum and is the co-coordinator of the German network “Atomwaffen abschaffen – bei uns anfangen” (“Get rid of nuclear weapons – start here”)

Contact: E-Mail regina.hagen@jugendstil.da.shuttle.de

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Gret Haller

Born in 1947, Haller studied in Zurich, where she gained a doctorate in Law in 1973. Her thesis was on United Nations Human Rights Covenants and the legal status of women in Switzerland. She started working for the Federal Department of Justice in 1975, where she was responsible for the European Convention on Human Rights. In 1978 she established her own law office in Bern. In 1985 she became the head of the education department for the City of Bern.

She was elected to the Swiss Parliament in 1987, and from 1990-4 was part of the Swiss delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and to the OSCE from 1993-4.

She was President (Speaker) of the Swiss Parliament (National Council) in 1993-4. From 1996-2000 she was Human Rights Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina based on Annex 6 of the Dayton / Paris Peace Agreement. She has been working in Switzerland as a publicist since 2001.

Contact: http://www.grethaller.ch/

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Cilja Harders

Universität Bochum, Deutschland

Alexandra Harstall

geb. 1977 in Bukarest/Rumänien, ist Sprecherin von feministAttac Deutschland (www.attac.de/feministattac) und Gründungsmitglied von MediNetz Bonn – medizinische Vermittlungsstelle für Flüchtlinge, MigrantInnen, Menschen ohne Papiere (http://www.medinetzbonn.de/).

Ihr gegenwärtiger Arbeitsschwerpunkt ist die feministische Analyse neoliberaler Globalisierung am Beispiel der Migration.

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Silke Helfrich

Studierte Philologie (Französisch/Portugiesisch) und Pädagogik an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.

Anfang 1990 begann sie verstärkt zu Lateinamerika und Entwicklungspolitik zu arbeiten.

Seit 1999 leitet sie das Regionalbüro der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Mexico City.  Schwerpunkte ihrer dortigen Arbeit bilden die Themen Globalisierung, Gender und Menschenrechte.

Minu Hemmati

Deutschland/Belgien, Dipl.Psych.

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin an der Universität des Saarlandes 1992-1998 (Sozial- & Umweltpsychologie; Frauenforschung). Seit 1998 selbstständig tätig als Beraterin & Projektkoordinatorin, mit NROs, Regierungen, int. Organisationen, Unternehmen, auf lokaler, nationaler und internationaler Ebene. Arbeitsgebiete: Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Geschlechtergerechtigkeit, politische Partizipation, Kommunikation & Zusammenarbeit gesellschaftlicher Gruppen.

Regelmäßige Teilnahme an Konferenzen der Vereinten Nationen seit 1996 (Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Frauenpolitik, Stadtentwicklung). Ko-Koordination der Frauen-Arbeitsgruppe bei der VN Kommission zur Nachhaltigen Entwicklung 1999-2001. Derzeit Arbeit zu Partnerschatfsprojekten in Entwicklungslaendern; Gender & Klimawandel, Dialog als Veraenderungsinstrument; Prozessdesign & Moderation.

Contact: E-Mail minu@minuhemmati.net; Website http://www.minuhemmati.net/

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Gitti Hentschel

Communications Scientist (MA), Social Educationalist

Gitti Hentschel has been director of the Feminist Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since April 2002.  She is a freelance publicist and lecturer at the TU and HU Berlin, co-editor of the weekly journal “Friday“ and sits on the board of the 4th Berliner Frauenhaus.

She is a member of the steering group for the Women’s Security Council and was co-founder of the “Taz” in 1979, working then as editor of the Taz for six years. Following this she became a freelance journalist and full-time women’s representative at the Alice-Salomon Technical College and national spokesperson for University Women’s Representatives.

Contact: feministisches-institut@boell.de

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Maria Pia Hernández

Coordinator of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)-Geneva Office

Maria Pia Hernández, Coordinator of the IGTN/Geneva Office. Main activities: 
· Monitoring WTO negotiations and activities, particularly those, which have an impact on gender issues.
· Informing and updating IGTN on WTO negotiations.
· Researching on negotiating issues that are of critical importance from a gender perspective.
· IGTN focal point for Diplomatic Missions and Geneva based NGOs.

General Information: I was born in Nicaragua, Central America. I am a lawyer and have a Master in Law with a concentration in International Environmental Liability from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Prior to joining IGTN, I worked as First Secretary for the Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva coordinating projects designed to strengthen internal policies and negotiations in trade and environmental matters. I also worked on matters involving trade and development issues. I represented my country as a delegate on the Ottawa Convention which deals with the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction.

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Zameret Herskho

35 years old, MA in History, German history - Nazism and Gender. Peace activist in the organisation "Women in Black" and cordinator of a joined Israeli-German project of 3rd genaration after Holocaust.

• Worked for 10 years in a Rape Crisies center
• For the last 3 years work in a Shelter for Battered Women
• Since 15 years work as volunteer in the feminist organisation Isha la Isha

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Marcelina Hettwer-Stasinski

Vera, Beratungsstelle für Frauen, die vom Menschenhandel betroffen sind

Gebürtige Polin – seit 1988 in Deutschland; Sozialwissenschaftlerin - Studium der Erziehungswissenschaft (Schwerpunkt Sozialpädagogik), Soziologie und Kriminologie an der Universität Heidelberg; seit 2000 tätig als sozialpädagogische Mitarbeiterin in der AWO-Beratungsstelle Vera. Das Projekt bietet vom Menschenhandel betroffenen Frauen in Sachsen-Anhalt Hilfe an.

Contact: AWO Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., Internetseite: http://www.awo-lsa.de/, e-mail: vera@AWO-LSA.de

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Felicitas Hillmann

Geb. 1964, Dr., Privatdozentin an der Freien Universität Berlin, Institut für Geographie.

Inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt: Migrationsforschung; 1994-2000 Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin, 2000 Mitarbeit an der Internationalen Frauenuniversität, 2001 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böcklerstiftung (WSI); seit 2001 an der FU tätig.

Forschung und zahlreiche Publikationen zum Thema Migration und Arbeitsmarktintegration; Geschlechtsspezifik; ethnische Ökonomien.

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Assistant lecturer in bioethics and feminist theory

She wrote her dissertation on the Commodification and Commercialisation of Women’s Bodies in Reproductive Technologies – Perspectives for Feminist Intervention.

She has a PhD and is trained as a pharmaceutical technical assistant. She studied ethics in Cambridge, USA. Her doctorate is in feminist discourse on modern reproductive technologies in Germany and the USA. She has been assistant lecturer on bioethics and feminist theory at various universities. She is currently teaching at the Evangelische Fachhochschule in Nuremberg. She has recently been involved in research in Poland. Her current research focus is on genetic and reproductive technologies in Poland and feminist ethics. Publications:

• "Die feministischen Diskurse über moderne Reproduktionstechnologien Positionen und Kontroversen in der BRD und in den USA“, Frankfurt/M.,1999
• „Der Körper in der philosophischen, gen-ethischen und feministischen Diskussion" In: femina politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft. Heft 2; 1999
• „Biopolitik. Der öffentliche Zugriff auf das Leben“. In: Giesecke Heide, Stipproweit Adelhaid (Hg.).  Frauen und Naturwissenschaften. Berlin 2001.
• "Feministische Diskurse über moderne Reproduktionstechnologien" In: Marlis Krüger; Bärbel Wallisch-Prinz (Hg.), Erkenntnisprojekt Feminismus. Bremen 2001
• „Feministsche Diskurse über moderne Reproduktionstechnologien“ In: Sigrid Graumann, Ingrid Schneider (Hg.), Verkörperte Technik - Entkörperte Frau. Bio-Politics und Geschlecht. Frankfurt/M. 2003
• „Reproduktionstechnologien bedeuten soziokulturelle Veränderungen. Eine Skizze“ In: Jutta Weber. Corinna Bath (Hg.), Turbulente Körper, soziale Maschinen. Feministische Studien zur Technowissenschaftskultur. Opladen 2003.
• „Biopolitik. Grenzenlos. Stimmen aus Polen“. (Hg.) Heidi Hofmann Centaurus 2005

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Una Hombrecher

*1967, has studied Cultural Anthropology, Geography and Psychology at Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg in Germany. In her master thesis, for which she has done extensive research in Ethiopia, she analysed the intersection of women’s agency and traditional values in drought prone rural Ethiopia. She implemented a rural credit and saving scheme as well as an accompanying educational programme for female heads of household in Ethiopia.

In the year 2000 she completed a post graduate course on migration at the International Women’s University in Hanover in Germany. For her PhD project on “Identities in Conflict” she joined the Department of Geography at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg in Germany and has accomplished extensive research in the war prone areas of Sri Lanka.

Since 2003 she manages the “International Project: Overcome Domestic Violence” by “Bread for the World” and the “Social Service Alliances of the Protestant Churches in Germany”. The international project aims at providing space for an international exchange in order to disseminate and further develop strategies to overcome domestic violence.

Merle Hummrich

Stella Jegher

amnesty international Schweiz

Stella Jegher (geb. 1960) hat 1983 an der Universität Genf ein Übersetzerin-Diplom und 1999 an der Universität Basel einen Master of Advanced European Studies erworben. Sie engagiert sich seit den 80er Jahren in Friedens-, Frauen- und Menschenrechtsprojekten, u.a. im Schweizerischen Friedensrat, im Frauenrat für Aussenpolitik und in der NGO-Koalition Post-Beijing, und publiziert regelmäßig zu Frauenrechten, Gender Mainstreaming und Friedenspolitik.

Seit 1989 ist sie auch beruflich in diesem Bereich tätig, zunächst auf der cfd-Frauenstelle für Friedensarbeit, 1995-2003 als Projektleiterin im Gleichstellungsbüro der Stadt Zürich, seit Dez. 2003 als Kampagnenkoordinatorin bei Amnesty International (Schweizer Sektion). Dort ist sie heute zuständig für die Umsetzung der Kampagne "Stoppt Gewalt gegen Frauen“.
Sie ist maßgeblich an der Organisation der internationalen Fachtagung „Due diligence – Die Verantwortung der Staaten für die Menschenrechte der Frauen“ (21. – 23. September 2005 in Bern – vgl. www.izfg.unibe.ch/duediligence) beteiligt.

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Lecturer at the department of Gender Studies of Humboldt University in Berlin

Heike Jensen is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the department of Gender Studies of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her research and teaching foci are media theories, media politics and media strategies, women's movements and women's organizations, and globalization and global governance. She received her education at the Free University (Berlin, Germany), the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA), Brown University (Providence, USA), the International Women's University 2000 (Hamburg, Germany) and Humboldt University, where she obtained her doctorate.

Dr. Jensen's volunteer work is dedicated to promoting women's rights. She is a member of Terre des Femmes e.V., the NRO-Frauenforum, and the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). In the WSIS process, she has worked with the German Civil Society Coordinating Committee for WSIS, the WSIS Gender Caucus and the NGO Gender Strategies Working Group. She was a civil society member of the German governmental delegation to the Geneva Summit. In October 2004, Dr. Jensen became the Western European member of the Steering Committee of the WSIS Gender Caucus.

Contact: dr.heike.jensen@web.de

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Regina Kalthegener

ist Rechtsanwältin in Berlin und vertritt Mädchen und Frauen als Opferbeistand und in der Nebenklage in Strafprozessen die im Schwerpunkt mit Menschenhandel, Ehrenmmord und Kinderprostitution zu tun haben. Seit fast zwanzig Jahren engagiert sie sich für Menschenrechte, insbesondere für die Rechte von Mädchen und Frauen. Sie gehörte mehrere Jahre dem Bundesvorstand von TERRE DES FEMMES e.V. an, war Mitglied der Europakommission des Deutschen Juristinnenbundes, vier Jahre Mitglied des Koordinierungskreises des Forum Menschenrechte und zwei Jahre die Sprecherin des Forums (Convener).

Sie hat sich in fachspezifischen Veröffentlichungen, gutachterlichen Tätigkeiten und in EU-Projekten mit Teilbereichen von Gewalt gegen Frauen auseinandergesetzt, insbesondere Frauenhandel, Kinderprostitution, Genitalverstümmelung und geschlechtsspezifische Verfolgung. Zusammen mit Erin Keskin Trägerin des Hans Litten Menschenrechtspreises 2000.

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Nazire Karaman

Arzthelferin und Gesundheitspädagogin

geb. 1968 in Erzurum- Türkei, Einreise nach Deutschland 1974. Von 1977 bis 1979 Pendelmigration, zwischen Türkei und Berlin.

1999-2003 Mitglied des Bezirksverordnetenversammlung Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg, Vorsitzende des       Immigrationsausschusses. Seit  2002 Mitarbeit bei AKARSU e.V. -  Mädchen und Frauenarbeit, Bildung Qualifizierung und Gesundheit. Seit Dezember 2004 Geschäftsführerin von AKARSU e.V.

Grada Kilomba

Psychologist, studied Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis in Lisbon.

Currently lecturing "Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon and Psychoanalysis, at the Humboldt-University of Berlin - department of Gender Studies. Writes and researches in the realm of (Post)colonial studies to African Diaspora, Racism and Trauma; Race, Gender Representation and Film.

Is now concluding her Ph.D. titled: "(De)Colonizing the Black Body. Episodes of Everyday Racism told by Women of the African Diaspora".

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David King

Dr., is a geneticist, who has been writing and campaigning on genetics issues since 1990.  His PhD in molecular biology from Edinburgh University was on RNA splicing, using yeast as a model organism.  Prior to that he studied at Cambridge University and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. 

He was the first Director of The Genetics Forum, a campaigning pressure group, and was the founder of GenEthics News, an independent newsletter on genetics issues, which he edited for seven years.  He is the founder and Director of Human Genetics Alert, a leading watchdog group on genetics issues. 

Dr King has written for many publications, and has published articles in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Race, Gender and Class, Human Reproductive and Genetic Ethics, and chapters in a number of books. 

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Madhu Kishwar

Since 2001 Madhu Kishwar is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, following fellowships there and at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

She is the founder editor of Manushi, a journal on women and society and of Manushi Citizen's Rights Fo-rum. Madhu Kishwar is member of the National Commission on Enterprises in the Unorganised and Informal Sector; the Editor's Guild of India;  the Indian Social Studies Trust; the Nehru Memo-rial Museum and Library Society (1989-2003).

Over the last 25 years Madhu Kishwar engaged in fields like debureaucratising and decriminalizing the Indian economy; electoral reforms; combating corruption and institutionalizing transparency in governance; ways to prevent ethnic conflicts; promoting greater understanding of and respect for the diverse cultures and religious traditions in India; strengthening women's rights in the private and public realm and civil rights.

She published many books and articles in journals and newspapers and produced several docu-mentary films. Among many other awards Madhu Kishwar got the Order of Human Rights, the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Best Women Jounalist of the Year.

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Frances Kissling

President of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), an international NGO based in Washington DC with a significant impact on public discourse regarding gender issues and the appropriate role of religion in public policy

Ms. Kissling has briefed parliamentarians and development professionals on reproductive health and rights, religion and public policy in a number of countries.  She has spoken on the role of religion in public policy in the European Union, and coordinated the See Change campaign to challenge the Holy See’s special status at the UN.

In working to overcome fundamentalist extremism, Ms. Kissling has partnered with Islamic and Jewish women’s organizations.  She is co-author of “Women Under Oppressive Regimes: Women and Religious Fundamentalism”. Ms. Kissling has served on the boards of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, SIECUS, International Women’s Health Coalition and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. She is co-founder of the Global Fund for Women, and was the first executive director and a founder of the National Abortion Federation.

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Sibyll Klotz

After studying philosophy, Sibyll Klotz started her doctorate on the “women issue”,  working between 1984 and 1990 as a research assistant at the Charité. She has never made a secret of joining the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in 1983, believing in a reformed socialism as the best model for society. Today she says that she realised too late “that the old peoples’ home of the SED was not in the position to reform”. In 1989 she left the party in disgust when the SED did not disband.

Together with other women, Sybill Klotz founded the Independent Women’s Union (UFV) in 1989, for which she joined the House of Representatives in 1990.

Sibyll Klotz has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for the Alliance 90/The Greens since January 1991, and from 1993-95 and 1997 she was parliamentary party chair, from January 1998-November 1999 deputy parliamentary party chair, and from November 1999 again parliamentary party chair. She has been a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens since 1996(?). She stood as lead candidate for the Green Alliance in the elections of 1995 and 2001.

Sibyll Klotz is an expert in labour market and women’s policy and co-initiator of the “Europe without Racism” initiative.

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Mechthild Kopel

M.A., Leiterin des Geschäftsbereiches Gender-Beratung und -Training sowie Niederlassungsleiterin der ISA CONSULT GmbH
Nach der Ausbildung und Tätigkeit als Apothekenhelferin besucht sie die Fachoberschule für Sozialpädagogik in Rheine und anschließend die Fachhochschule für Sozialwesen in Osnabrück. Es folgen Tätigkeiten als Referentin für politische Jugendbildung.

An der Ruhr-Universität in Bochum schließt sie 1990 ihren Magister im Studiengang Pädagogik, Geschichte, Sozialwissenschaften ab. Seit 1990 ist sie als Beraterin bei der ISA CONSULT GmbH für Unternehmen, Verwaltungen und Non-Profit-Organisationen zur Chancengleichheitspolitik, Regional-, Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik tätig.

Jutta Kühl

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des GenderKompetenzZentrums an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Gender Mainstreaming, feministische Demokratietheorie, Gender in der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik.

Aktuelle Publikation: Ahrens P./Kletzing, U./Kühl, J.: Instrumente von Gender Mainstreaming in der Verwaltungspraxis, in: Meuser, M./Neusüß, C. (Hg.), Gender Mainstreaming, Konzepte – Handlungsfelder - Instrumente, Bonn 2004.

Contact:kuehl@genderkompetenz.info 

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Sandra Lewalter

Volljuristin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des GenderKompetenzZentrums an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Gender Mainstreaming, Verwaltungsmodernisierung, Gleichstellungs- und Privatisierungsfolgenrecht.

Contact: lewalter@genderkompetenz.info

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Rupsa Mallik

M.A., Program Director, Center for Health and Gender Equity,  South Asia

Rupsa Mallik has an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands. She is currently Program Director with the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), a US based international reproductive health and rights organization.

Rupsa leads CHANGE’s in-country work in India with a particular focus on population policies, sex selection and reproductive and contraceptive choice and access. Prior to joining CHANGE (2001), Rupsa worked for the National Foundation for India (NFI) 1994-2001 as a Senior Program Officer. Much of her work at NFI focused on defining and implementing the Foundation's work in one of its core program areas -Gender Equity and Justice.

Contact: http://www.genderhealth.org/

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Ulrike Markert

1964   geboren in Kaltensundheim/Rhön
1982-1988 Studium an der Hochschule für Kunst und Design „Burg Giebichenstein“ mit Diplomabschluss in Halle/Saale im Fach Grafik/Malerei
Seit 1990 in Berlin lebend: Papierskulpturen, Malerei, Workshopleitung, Illustrationen
Seit 1993 Mitarbeit bei interkulturellen Kulturprojekten, Seminarleitung, museumspädagogische Arbeit, Kunstsymposien mit Stipendien, kunsttherapeutische Tätigkeit
1994 Geburt der Tochter Jorinde
Seit 2002  Webdesign, grafische Arbeit, Skulpturen, Performance, Video
Seit 1989  kontinuierliche Ausstellungstätigkeit 

Reisen: Kuba (1990), Studienreise nach Mexiko (1993/94), Marokko (1999/2001), Arbeitsaufenthalt im Senegal (2004)

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Heidi Meinzolt-Depner

Born in 1952, Heidi Meinzolt-Depner was a secondary school teacher and involved in international policy for many years, firstly on the board of the European Greens, and later as the European coordinator of the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom.

Her interests lie in alternatives to traditional security policy, in civil conflict resolution and the prevention of violence, with particular consideration of the role of women in peace processes and their involvement in political developments.

She is engaged in techniques of global learning and conflict moderation and is involved in numerous international activities and exchange programmes.

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Regis Munyaradzi Mtutu

*1960, holds a Diploma in Business Studies (Bournville College of Further Education – Birmingham, England) and has studied Social Work at the University of Zimbabwe.

From 1991 until 1995 he was Business Development Trainer of the Popular Education Collective which attempts to build the capacity of agricultural cooperatives and other forms of collectives to improve their living conditions through improved agricultural production, training and education and business development using the co-operative model and by strengthening of the democratic development of their cooperatives, organisations and local communities. From 1995 until 2002 he has worked as Senior Training Officer for the Housing People of Zimbabwe (HPZ), an organization that aims at developing and strengthening the capacity of housing co-operatives and mutual housing groups to respond to affordable housing needs of people of limited means in Zimbabwe.

Regis Mtutu is a Founder Member of Padare/ Enkudhleni/ Men’s Forum On Gender, an anti-sexist men’s organisation that challenges patriarchal thinking in men and organises platforms for men to take responsibility for the realisation of gender just society. Since 2002 he’s the Executive Director of Padare.

Contact: padare@mweb.co.zw

Links:

• Padare/Enkundleni Men's Forum on Gender, Zimbabwe
• Concept of padare
• Article: Gender-based violence  case
• "Challenging men to reject gender stereotypes" by John K. Gokova

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Behshid Najafi

Maren Niemeyer

Yudith Oppenheimer

Kol Ha-Isha's executive director - project supervisor

She is a long time feminist and human rights activist, trained in Community Development and has worked as a consultant for gender relations in community development projects in Israel and during a stay in South Africa. 

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Renée Parlar

Politologin

Studium der Politikwissenschaften mit den Schwerpunkten Politische Ökonomie, Entwicklungspolitische Zusammenarbeit, Demokratietheorie sowie Feministische Theorie und Transformationsforschung. 1999 bis 2002 Projektkoordinatorin in der Berliner Kampagne Gemeinsam gegen Gewalt. 2003 bis 2005 freiberufliche Beraterin für Gender Mainstreaming und Gender Budgeting.

Seit April 2005 als Politik- und Organistationsberaterin bei Competence Consulting tätig. Sie ist Mitglied der Initiative für eine geschlechter-gerechte Haushaltsführung in Berlin.

E-Mail: rparlar@web.de

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Judith Pamela A. Pasimio

Judith Pasimio works for the Asian Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development in Chiang Mai, Thailand, responsible for the ‘Women and Environment and ‘Rural and Indigenous Women’ programmes. These aim to strengthen movements of marginalised women, raise women’s awareness of the impact of globalisation and militarization and mobilise women for the WTO Campaign (2003-2006). Prior to this she was responsible for the editing and coordination of publications, for the maintenance of the resource centre, for campaigns, and advocacy work and networking.

At the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Centre-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-KSK/Friends of the Earth) in the Philippines she worked firstly in the publications department and then as campaign coordinator in the national office until 1999, when she moved to the regional office in Luzon. She has edited many journals and publications, including the Tan-Awan Newsletter (1999-2000), the Philippine Natural Resources Law Journal (1992-1999) and “Common Problems, Uncommon Solutions”(1994).

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Professor in Sociology at Institute for Sociology at Hamburg University, focussing on social structural analysis and is Director of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance

She has been researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Göttingen, Bremen, Tampere (Finland) and Jena, carrying out doctorate and post-doctoral studies at Bremen University.

She has written for numerous research publications nationally and internationally with a focus on international comparative sociology, social inequality, labour market sociology, the sociology of social policy, family sociology, gender studies and transformation research. She has participated in the coordination of the Gender Inequality and the European Regions Network (GIER) of the European Science Foundation and is a member of the Management Committee of the Gender Issues Group of the COST A13 Action Programme “Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship” at the EU. She is co-editor of the research journal “Work, Employment and Society” of the British Sociological Association, and coordinator of the European Research Project in the fifth EU Framework Programme: Formal and Informal Work in Europe (FIWE).

Contact: www.sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de/Isoz/isoz/pfau-effinger

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Ilona Plattner

attac, Deutschland 

freischaffend tätig in den Bereichen Politik, Kunst, Medien und Organisationsentwicklung, Studium an der Alanus Kunsthochschule Bonn und der Kunstakademie Münster (Freie Kunst, Film und neue Medien), Akademiebrief, Meisterschülerin. 2000 Gründung des Künstlerinnen-Netzwerkes INNENNETZ; mittlerweile e. V. zum Zweck der Verbesserung der öffentlichen Präsenz von Künstlerinnen. Weiterbildung zur Kommunikationstrainerin; NLP Practitioner.

Seit 2002 aktive Mitarbeit im Frauennetz Attac, Vorbereitungspruppe für den Internationalen GATS Kongress aus Frauenperspektive in Köln (2003), ab Jan. 2003 Vertreterin des Frauennetz im bundesweiten Koordinierungskreis von Attac, ab Okt. 2004 für feministAttac (Frauennetz) im Attac-Rat.

Seminare und Vorträge zu Frauen und Globalisierung u. a. »Fatal global« Konferenz von Gewerkschaften, NGOs und Attac im Vorfeld der WTO Konferenz 2003, Reden an den Großdemonstrationen in Berlin gegen den Soziallabbau, und Eröffnungsveranstaltung der Attac-Sommerakademie im Dresdner Rathaus.

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Ramona Pop

Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

Politologin. Geboren am 31. Oktober 1977 in Temeschburg/ Rumänien; ledig. 1997 Abitur. Studium an der Westf. Wilhelms Universität und der FU Berlin. Längere Auslandsaufenthalte: geboren und aufgewachsen in Rumänien. Sprachkenntnisse: Englisch (fließend), Latein, Rumänisch, Spanisch (Grundkenntnisse).

Seit 1997 Mitglied der BÜNDNIS 90/ DIE GRÜNEN, 1998 bis 2000 Kreisvorstandsmitglied in Münster, 2000 bis 2001 Vorsitzende der Grünen Jugend. Mitglied im Kuratorium der HU Berlin, im Kuratorium des Lette-Vereins. Seit November 2001 Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin. Stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Kuratoriums der Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit Berlin.

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Zo Randriamaro

Human and Women’s Rights activist

She started her academic career at the renowned Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Following her degree in Social Anthropology she completed post-graduate studies in Development Sociology at the Institute d’Etudes du Devéloppement Economique et Social at the Sorbonne.

Zo Randriamaro is an expert in gender, social and economic security and environmental and health issues. As advisor, consultant and manager for numerous UN organisations such as UNDP, UNIFEM, UNEP, UNFPA and FAO as well as for development organisations such as USAID.

Zo Randriamaro has participated in the conception, implementation and evaluation of many studies, programmes and projects in international development cooperation. She is editor of many publications on health and economic issues, with a strong focus on gender perspectives. She has worked in numerous African countries, lately in her home country of Madagascar, and in Senegal. She is also member of the directorate of the international NGO WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organisation).

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Birte Rodenberg

Berlin, Germany, born 1963, holds a PhD in sociology and is working as a freelance consultant to governmental organizations and NGOs. From 2000 to 2003 she has worked on cross-cutting issues in development cooperation (poverty reduction/PRSP, gender and participation) at the German Development Institute, GDI, Bonn. Her regional focus is based on post-graduate research in Mexico and short-term case studies in Latina America and Anglophone Africa (Ghana, Kenya).

Since 1994 she is a visiting lecturer at the University of Bielefeld and Berlin on the issues of international feminist movements and development theory and practice.  From 2000 to 2002 she was the spokesperson of the executive board of the German network "NGO Women's Forum".

Bibliographical Notes:
1. Gender and Poverty Reduction. New Conceptual Approaches in International Development Cooperation. German Development Institute (GDI), Bonn 2004 (http://www.die-gdi.de/)
2. "PRSP as an opportunity to assert gender interests?", in: VENRO (ed.): PRSP – Prospects and limits of civil society involvement; Working paper Nr. 4 (2003), 2015 in Dialogue, Bonn/Berlin, pp: 9-13
3. Empowerment. A Study of the Women's Projects Abroad Supported by the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation (with C. Wichterich), Berlin 1999 (www.boell.de/de/04_thema/490.html)

Contact: E-Mail: birte.rodenberg@t-online.de 

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Uta Ruppert

Prof. Dr. rer.soc., geb. 1961, Studium der Politikwissenschaft, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Soziologie. Seit 2002 Professorin für Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Entwicklungs- und Geschlechterforschung am Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M. Zuvor wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen und Dozentin an den Universitäten Linz und Innsbruck/Österreich, Castellon/Spanien, Bandung/Indonesien sowie lecturer bei der Internationalen Frauenuniversität ifu

1994-1996 Sprecherin des Arbeitskreises Politik und Geschlecht in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft / 1994-1997 Herausgeberin der Reihe Politik der Geschlechterverhältnisse im Campusverlag / 1996-2001 im Frauenrat der Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Globalisierung und Geschlecht, internationale Fauenbewegung und Frauenpolitik, feministische Theorie internationaler Beziehungen, Regionalexpertise: Westafrika und Indonesien.  


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Liane Schalatek

Associate Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation North America

Liane Schalatek is the Associate Director of the Washington Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, where she directs the office's activities on global governance issues, mainly on international finance, international trade and gender issues.

Prior to joining the Böll Foundation in October 1999, Ms. Schalatek held a position with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Washington for two years, where her work focused on transatlantic economic and security questions. She received editorial training in Germany and worked as a freelance journalist for several years before coming to the United States. Ms. Schalatek earned a masters degree in political science and political economy in Germany and an MA in International Affairs from George Washington University in Washington, DC.

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Ute Scheub

Journalistin und Schriftstellerin, Deutschland

Ute Scheub ist in Tübingen geboren und hat in Berlin Politikwissenschaften und diverse Nebenfächer studiert. 1978/79 war sie Mitbegründerin der "taz" und arbeitete dort als Redakteurin im Ressort Ökologie, später in der Nachrichtenredaktion, in den Lokalredaktionen Hamburg und Berlin, im Frauen- und Inlands-Ressort.

Seit 1997 ist sie freie Journalistin und Publizistin, unter anderem für taz, Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Rundschau, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Change X, Informationen für die Frau, Weltwoche, Tigerentenclub (ARD), Geolino, Zeitpunkte (SFB).

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Dorothea Schmidt

Economist, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva

Working for the ILO’s Employment Strategy Department since 2001, she was co-author of the last World Employment Report 2004-5 “Employment, Productivity and Poverty Reduction”. Her contribution focussed on the regional analysis of labour markets as well as the role of agriculture in the development process. She is also one of the main authors of the ILO’s yearly publication “Global Employment Trends”. In 2004 she co-authored special issues of this publication with the titles “Global Employment Trends for Women” and “Global Employment Trends for Youth”.

Before working for the ILO she was research assistant at the University of Freiburg, Faculty of Economics, while writing her PhD thesis on “Family Economics, Theory and Reality” (Die Famile als Untersuchungsgegenstand der Oekonomie: Ideengeschichte und Realität, Freiburg, Haufe Verlag 2001). She was also focal point for women’s affaires for her faculty. In this role she organized seminars for students on gender related subjects such as family economics and the history of gender in economics.

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Elisabeth Schroedter

Soziale Gerechtigkeit und der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt in der erweiterten Europäischen Union, das sind die Ziele, die Elisabeth Schroedter (Jahrgang 1959) am meisten am Herzen liegen. Die gebürtige Dresdnerin und Mutter dreier Söhne ist seit zwei Jahrzehnten fest in Brandenburg zu Hause. Durch ihre Erfahrungen als DDR-Bürgerin kennt sie die sozialen Härten der gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen genauso wie die Schwierigkeiten des Zusammenwachsens über die ehemaligen Trennlinien des Kalten Krieges hinweg.

Für ihre politischen Vorstellungen kämpft sie mit Ausdauer und Hartnäckigkeit. Sie engagierte sich im "Neuen Forum", eine der Bürgerrechtsbewegungen der DDR, seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1990 in der "Grünen Liga", einem Netzwerk ostdeutscher Umweltinitiativen, aber auch als Mitglied der Partei "Die Grünen der DDR". 1994 wird sie für Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN ins Europäische Parlament gewählt. Als Mitglied im Ausschuss für regionale Entwicklung konzentriert sie sich auf die Reform der europäischen Struktur- und Förderpolitik. Für eine aktive EU-Sozialpolitik kämpft sie als stellvertretendes Mitglied im Ausschuss für Beschäftigung und soziale Angelegenheiten. Als Mitglied im Kooperationsausschuss EU-Moldau und der EP-Delegation für die Beziehungen zu Belarus, setzt sie sich dafür ein, neue Mauern in Europa zu verhindern.

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Waltraud Schwab

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Regina Schwarz

geb. 1962, Diplom-Sozialarbeiterin und Theaterpädagogin, engagiert sich seit 1999 in der Bewegung gegen die neoliberale Globalisierung.

Seit 2001 ist sie Mitherausgeberin der Zeitschrift „Infobrief gegen neoliberale Politik und Konzernherrschaft“ und hält Vorträge zu folgenden Themenschwerpunkten: Einführung in die neoliberale Globalisierung, Globalisierung und Krieg, die Folgen der neoliberalen Globalisierung für das soziale Sicherungssystem und für die soziale Arbeit, das GATS-Abkommen der WTO sowie GATS und die Folgen für die Frauen.

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Klaus Schwerma

Diplom-Sozialwissenschaftler, Berlin

Jg.58, Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Männer- und Geschlechterforschung, Gender-Trainer und Erwachsenenbildner in den Bereichen Männlichkeit und Geschlechterverhältnisse, Vortrags- und Seminartätigkeit. Projektbeteiligungen:

„Work Changes Gender“, EU-FP5 Forschungsprojekt / „ RealGem – Gender meets Reality“, EU-Grundtvig2 Gender Mainstreaming Austauschprojekt / „Focus – Fostering caring masculinities“ EU-Gleichstellung Aktionsprogramm

Mitgliedschaft und Mitarbeit: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bei Dissens e.V . (http://www.dissens.de/), / Mitglied von genderWerk (http://www.genderwerk.de/) / Arbeitskreis kritische Männerforschung (http://www.menstudy.de/), / Forum Männer in Theorie und Praxis der Geschlechterverhältnisse. (http://www.forum-maenner.de/) / Gründungsmitglied des Bundesverbandes für Gender Diversity – Fachverband für gender-kompetente Bildung und Beratung, i.Gr. e.V.

Ausbildung: Sozialwissenschaftliches Studium mit dem Schwerpunkt Männer- und Geschlechterforschung / „Lernfeld Mann“ – Berufsbegleitende Fortbildung in der männerspezifischen Bildungsarbeit / Langjährige Beruftätigkeit im Druckbereich

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Marianne Seger

Marianne Seger, born 1936 in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany, started her studies – economic sience, marketing/management/balance analyses, also some terms each: history of art, modern art, literature, later: society sience (ageing) – in Leicester, England, and Paris, France; she has worked during the 60ties and 70ties for international organisations in various countries, the United Nations in Geneva and New York; later back in Germany as teacher, secondary stage II (as pioneer in data and text processing, too).

Marianne S. is permanent European NGO observer for EURAG at the United Nations, New York and Geneva; since the United Nations’ World Conference on Women, 1995 at Beijing, China, she has been active world wide for and with “women of all ages”; she was and still is networking, especially hard between 1995 and 1999 until the “Subcommittee on Older Women” (member) within the UN CSW in New had officially been installed.

She works from the outset within WSIS Phase I and II: Gender Caucus and European Caucus.

Sarah Sexton

Fatima Shabodien

Richa Singh

Susi Snyder

is the Secretary-General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She is responsible for the implementation of
WILPF programme and policies and maintains the International Secretariat of the organization. She is the chief administrator of finances, communication, and outreach, and monitors various issues under the aegis of the United Nations, including sustainable development, human rights, and disarmament.

Before coming to WILPF, Susi was the Program Director of the Shundahai Network, an indigenous led organization based in Nevada. She has
organized more than 10 international disarmament conferences and has facilitated the participation of poor, people of color and disenfranchised community members in the creation and monitoring of US nuclear policy.

Susi has spoken at more than 40 hearings regarding nuclear weapons, power and waste, including presentations to the National Academy of Sciences, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Department of Energy, and at countless rallies and demonstrations. She has appeared as the featured guest on numerous radio programs and stations including: Democracy Now (broadcast nationally); WBAI (New York City); and KRCL (Salt Lake City). She has also organized more than 30 nonviolent direct actions to affect change, and was named a "Las Vegas Hero" for her efforts by the Las Vegas City Life, in 2001.

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Ulrike Spangenberg

Juristin und Mediatorin

Als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Beratungs- und Forschungsprojektes „Familienförderung und Gender Mainstreaming“ arbeitete sie zu den geschlechtsspezifischen Auswirkungen des Steuerrechts und der Implementierung von Gender Mainstreaming im Gesetzgebungsprozess und im Steuerrecht.

Seit Mitte 2003 ist Ulrike Spangenberg freiberuflich im Bereich wissenschaftlicher Forschung und praxisorientierter Beratung zu Gleichstellungsrecht, Gender Mainstreaming und Gender Budgeting tätig. Sie ist Mitglied der Berliner Initiative für eine geschlechtergerechte Haushaltsführung und des Netzwerkes Gender Mainstreaming Expertinnen International (GMEI).

Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen: Neuorientierung der Besteuerung der Ehe: Ehegattensplitting und Lohnsteuerverfahren, Arbeitspapier der Böckler-Stiftung, Juli 2005, http://www.boeckler.de/

Kontakt: post@ulrike-spangenberg.de

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Magdalena Sroda

(born in 1957) is currently the government plenipotentiary for gender equality in Poland. Previously, she pursued an academic career at Warsaw University. Here she obtained her M.A. in Philosophy (“Two Sources of Morality: The Philosophy of Henry Bergson”), as well as her PH.D in the Humanistic Sciences (“The Idea of Dignity in Culture and Ethics”). She received her professorial qualification (Habilitation) at the same faculty (“Individualism and its Critics”).

Magdalena Sroda has taught at the Institute of Philosophy at Warsaw University since 1991, and has acted as the director of Postgraduate Studies of Ethics since 1994. She is the editor of “ETYKA” (“Ethics”) and “PRZEGLAD FILOZOFICZNY” (“PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW), both published by the Polish Academy of Science. She has been a visiting professor at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France (1995), at the University of Leuven, Belgium (1996), and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1997). Her academic specialties include History of Contemporary Philosophy, History of Ethical and Political Ideas, Applied Ethics, Feminism and Political Theory, and Gender Studies.

Contact Information: sroda@frame.net.pl, msroda@uw.edu.pl 

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Judith Striek

amnesty international, Sektionskoordinationsgruppe Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Frauen Geboren in Berlin, Studium: Bachelor of Law and Politics der University of Cardiff, Masters in Human Rights Law der University of Nottingham (2000). Mitarbeit in der Arbeitsgruppe Menschenrechte und Humanitäre Hilfe der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (2001-2002).

Zur Zeit Doktorandin im Bereich Völkerrecht am Lehrstuhl von Prof. Klein, Universität Potsdam. Stipendiatin der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in der Graduiertenförderung. Mitglied bei amnesty international in Dresden und in der Sektionskoordinationsgruppe Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Frauen von amnesty international. Schwerpunkt in der Sektionskogruppe: Frauen in bewaffneten Konflikten und Politik der UN. Vertreterin von amnesty international beim Frauensicherheitsrat.

Arbeits- und Interessenschwerpunkte: Menschenrechte, Völkerrecht, Frauenrechte in Afrika, besonders Burundi, Völkerrechtliche Entwicklung der Frauenrechte, Friedensprozesse und –abkommen, Sicherheitspolitik, Gewalterfahrung von Migrantinnen und Gender. Vorträge zu diesen Themen in verschiedenen Institutionen im In- und Ausland.

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Talibe Süzen

• 1961 geb. in der Türkei
• 1974 Einreise in die Bundesrepublik
• 1993-97 Studium der Soz.arbeit/Soz.päd. an der Alice Salomon-F.H.S, Berlin
• 2002 Prom. zum Dr. phil. im Fachbereich Soz. an der FU-Berlin zum Thema „Scheidungsverhalten türk. Migrantinnen der zweiten Gen. in der Bundesrepublik“
• 1992 -03 Beschäftigung als Doz. für Deutsch als Fremdsprache
• 1995 -03 Tätig. als päd. Leiterin einer berufsvorb. Maßnahme für junge Frauen mit Mig.hintergrund
• seit WS/02 Lehrbeauftr. an der Alice-Salomon FHS Berlin seit SS/05 Lehrbeauftr. an der Evangelischen FHS Berlin
• seit 2003 AWO Bundesverband e. V., Ref. im Fachb. Migration, Arb.schwerpunkt: Interkult. Öffnung der Jugendhilfe
• seit 1991 ehrenamtl. Tätig. in versch. gem.nützigen Einrichtungen
• seit 2003 Mitgl. im Landesbeirat Berlin für Integ.- und Migrationsfragen Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Interkult. Soz.arbeit, Weiterbildung und Migration, Interkult. Öffnung , Ausl.recht, Kinder- und Jugendhilfegesetz (KJHG), Proj.- und Gem.wesenarbeit, Frauen in der Migration.

Kristen Timothy

Hope Turyasingura

Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), Kampala, Uganda

Hope Turyasingura, * 1962,  has studied Social Sciences and Music, Dance and Drama at the Makerere University Kampala. From 1994 until 2000 she has been a volunteer in the National Association of Women's Organization in Uganda (NAWOU).

Since 2000 she’s the Program Officer of the Local Activism Department Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) in Kampala. CEDOVIP does community organising around the prevention of domestic violence through encouraging local activism and building networks, as well as through use of media to encourage discussion on Gender Based Violence.

Contact: turyasingurahope@yahoo.com
Links: Center for Domestic Violence Prevention, Raising Voices

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Barbara Unmüßig

Member of the Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

From 1991-2 she was co-ordinator of the German environment and development organisations in the UNCED process, participating in the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. She was a founding member and spokesperson for the Forum on Environment and Development, and from 1993-2002 she was a founder member and Chair of the Board of World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED).

From 1996-2001, she was President of the Governing Body of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. She is a founding member of the Deutsche Institut für Menschenrechte (German Institute for Human Rights), and since 2001 has been a member of its Board of Trustees. Since 2002, she has been Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Board member responsible for strategy and programme development in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and for gender democracy and the Feminist Institute.

Since 2003 she has been on the advisory committee for Jahrbuch Ökology. She edited a Third World journal in the 1980s and was research assistant for Aktion Dritte Welt and also for Uschi Eid and Ludger Volmer, Members of the Bundestag. 


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Sociologist, majored in Political Science. As  an active feminist militant, founded the Center for the Peruvian Women "Flora Tristán" in 1978

From 1990 till 1998, worked part of the year as an activist and organizer in Latin America, and also as a professor for the Women and development Program at the Social Studies Institute in The Hague, Netherlands.  She is also invited professor in several gender studies programmes in Peru and Latin America. In the region and at global level, she has been involved in several networks and regional initiatives, such as "Between Women: a North-South Dialogue", Social Watch, DAWN. In this moment she is actively involved in the Articulación Feminista Marcosur. (Marcosur Feminist Articulation), in Latin America.

Vargas was the Latin American and Caribbean NGOs' Coordinator to the NGO Forum held in September, 1995, on occasion of the Fourth World UN Conference on Women in Beijing, China. In Beijing, Vargas received a UNIFEM Award.

Also, in 1993, Vargas was presented the "Monsignor Proaño" award, conferred yearly by the Latin American Association for Human Rights (ALDHU) to outstanding advocates for human rights. In 1996, Vargas received the Spain Women's Federation award "Mujer Progresista 1995". And in 1997, Vargas received the Miraflores City Hall award. She has worked during two years  coordinating,  as a consultant,  the UNIFEM Programme of Economic and Social Rights for Women in the Andean Region, that included research, activism and information/communication/education activities, including gender budgets experiences. Since 2001 until now, Vargas is actively involved in the processes of the World Social Forum, as part of its International Comitte, on behalf of the Articulacion Feminista Marcosur. Actually she works in the Center "Flora Tristan" in Lima, in the Programme " Studies and Feminist Debates"  (Estudios y Debate Feminista).

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L. Muthoni Wanyeki

is a political scientist who works on development communications, gender and human rights. 

She has published in these fields and serves as an advisor/board member to several African and international organisations working in these fields as well.  She is currently the Executive Director of the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), a pan-African membership organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya. 

FEMNET works towards African women's development, equality and other human rights through advocacy at the regional and international levels, training on gender analysis and mainstreaming and communications."

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Vron Ware

She is a writer and lecturer based in London. She is author of 'Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History' (Verso, 1992) and co-author of 'Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture' (Chicago, 2002) with Les Back.

She also works as a consultant setting up video-conferencing links between students and institutions working on transnational gender issues.

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Jurema Werneck

A physician and the general coordinator of CRIOLA, Jurema Werneck was executive secretary of the Brazilian Black Women's Organizations network from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2002-2004. Alternate member of the federal government's advisory Council for Economic and Social Development. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Production Engineering from URFJ, and is currently studying for a doctorate in Communication and Culture there.

She was a co-author and member of the Ghente Project - Social, Ethical, and Legal Studies of Genomes in the Field of the Health, an initiative o FIOCRUZ public health institute, as coordinator of Technological Management/ GESTEC (2002). She was Coordinator of the National Campaign against Mass Sterilization of Black Women, and of the Permanent Forum against Mass Sterilization in Rio de Janeiro, 1990-1992, as well as a member of the organizing Committee of the Gender Issue Group in the NGO Forum during the 3rd World Conference against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, South Africa, 28/8 - 8/9/2001.

Her publications include, as co-editor with Maisa Mendonça and Evelyn C. White, O livro a saúde das moheres negras: nossos passos vêm de longe [CRIOLA/ Global Exchange/ Pallas Editora].

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Christa Wichterich

Dr.rer.pol., Soziologin, arbeitet als freiberufliche Publizistin, Buchautorin, Lehrbeauftragte an Universitäten und als Beraterin in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Sie hat mehrere Jahre als Universitätsdozentin in Indien und im Iran und als Afrikakorrespondentin in Kenia gelebt.

Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Globalisierung und Geschlechterungleichheit, internationale Frauenpolitik, Frauenarbeit, Frauenbewegungen, Ökologie. Sie hat an wichtigen internationalen Konferenzen von der 3. Weltfrauenkonferenz 1985 in Nairobi bis zur Peking+10-Konferenz 2005 in New York teilgenommen. Ihre geographischen Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Süd- und Südostasien, Ost- und Südafrika. Sie ist im Vorstand des NRO-Frauenforums, im wissenschaftlichen Beirat von attac Deutschland und arbeitet imThink Tank von Women in Development Europe (WIDE).

Holds a PhD. in sociology, and works as a free-lance journalist, author of books, guest lecturer at universities and consultant in development cooperation. As researcher andauthor, her main topics are globalization and gender, economy and women's work, ecology, women's movements
and international women's policies. Her geographical focus is on South and Southeast Asia, East and Southern Africa. She is on the board of the NGO Women's Forum, Germany, member of the academic council of attac, Germany, and a member of the think tank of Women in Development Europe (WIDE).

Christiane Wilke

Leiterin Frauen- und Gleichstellungspolitik beim Vorstand der IG Metall

Nach der Ausbildung und Tätigkeit als Textillaborantin mechn.-techn. folgt eine Fortbildung zur Textiltechnikerin und Tätigkeit als Textiltechnikerin und technische Angestellte. Sie besucht die Sozialakademie Dortmund und fängt als Nachwuchssekretärin bei der GTB (Gewerkschaft Textil-Bekleidung) an. Im weiteren Verlauf arbeitet sie als Sekretärin beim Vorstand und Vorstandssekretärin bei der GTB sowie der IG Metall, Abteilung Frauen- und Gleichstellungspolitik.

Seit 2000 ist sie Leiterin des Funktionsbereiches Frauen- und Gleichstellungspolitik beim Vorstand der IG Metall. 

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Marianne Zepp

Marianne Zepp has been with the Heinrich Böll Foundation since1997, and is currently working as a Programme Officer for Contemporary History and Development of Democracy.

In the 1980s, she worked as a press officer and freelance journalist. She was instrumental in founding the “Women’s Foundation” (FrauenAnstiftung), and its umbrella organization, the "Rainbow Foundation" (Stiftungsverband Regenbogen), both affiliated to the Green Party.

She has participated in many international conferences and projects, such as the German-Canadian Project, “Learning from the Past – Teaching for the Future”, the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, and a conference on Muslims in Europe. In 2005 she initiated the graduate programme, “Überwindung von Diktaturen und Aufbau von Zivilgesellschaften“ – examining the overthrow of dictatorships. She has carried out research on “Gelebte Europa” (‘Lived Europe’) with Prof. Wolfrum, Heidelberg University. She is currently completing a dissertation on Re-education, Citizenship and the Reconstruction of Democratic Policy.

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Roula Zoubiane

Libanon, works as an assistant professor at the Lebanese University in Beirut in the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences and the Faculty of pedagogy. She is an Academic researcher in African studies and specialised in French literature.

Mrs. Zoubiane is an activist in the local and international civil society, such as the Lebanese Committee for Peace and Freedom (LCPF) and WILPF and Program coordinator for: Economic and Political Capacity Building and Empowerment for Women in Lebanon through institutional cooperation between WILPF Norway and WILPF Lebanon.

Elaine Zuckerman

Aktualisiert: 08.09.2005, hbr