Focus: Gender Equality

Female empowerment and gender equality are among the most powerful means to achieve a more peaceful, just and equal world - the current protests in Iran show this particularly clearly. The courage and strength of women, queer and trans people fighting for their rights worldwide is what we put at the heart of our Focus: Gender Equality.

The Business of Birth Control

It seemed like a miracle: protection against unwanted pregnancy, effective relief against pain and annoying acne – the birth control pill liberated women and their bodies, revolutionising their…

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The Radical

Seven days before his wedding, Muhsin Hendricks tries to tell his fiancée that he cannot marry her. The wedding takes place anyway. But at some point, his need to be himself becomes greater than his…

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Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age

‘A few tweets and messages on the internet, what can you do?’ But is that whole truth? More than 40,000 sexist insults, rape and death threats, a montage of a decapitated woman’s head, footage of a…

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Two Minutes to Midnight

An all-female government meets in a windowless room at the round table. The Doomsday Clock shows two minutes to midnight. An enemy autocrat has already announced the nuclear strike. In Yael Bartana's…

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11. OCTOBER 2022