Please note that the Southeast Asia Regional Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation has recently moved from Chiang Mai to Bangkok
The new address is 75 Sukhumvit 53 (Paidee-Madee), Klongton Neua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110 (Link to map). Tel: 02-6625960-2; Fax: 02-6627576; The Chiang Mai office will be operational until the end of June 2010.
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The Heinrich Böll Foundation - Southeast Asia Regional Office
The Heinrich Boell Foundation is the Green Political Foundation affiliated with the German party Alliance 90/The Greens. Based in Berlin, it is federally organised and independent from the party. Our primary objectives are to provide and support civic education both in Germany and abroad, to promote democratic participation and active citizenship, as well as cross-cultural understanding. 

Our program in Southeast Asia (covering Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar/Burma) is located in two main areas:

Our offices in Chiang Mai/Thailand and Phnom Penh/Cambodia are two of the Heinrich Boell Foundation's over 25 offices worldwide. We work together closely with the Asia Desk of the head office in Berlin, as well as the HBF offices in Lahore/Pakistan, New Delhi/India and Beijing/China.

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Democracy
Study
Action Research - Promoting Political Participation of Indigenous Women in Cambodia
To better understand and promote indigenous women’s participation in both traditional and formal political institutions, the Cambodia Country Office, together with GTZ, has launched an action research project. The study was conducted among indigenous communities in Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Stung Treng and among Khmer communities in Kratie. It points at both obstacles and opportunities to enhance indigenous women’s political participation. By Margherita Maffii and Hong Sineath, December 2009 more»
Ecology
Magazine
Böll.Thema Number 1/2010 - Going Green
April 27, 2010 - No doubt, Copenhagen was a major setback. Although much remains to be done, the great transformation is on its way: within the energy sector, in construction, in industry – and in Europe, the US, and China alike. To be sure, political decisions will be a major factor in how swiftly and powerfully change will occur. Yet, the future is not the exclusive domain of governments. All of us can be and will have to become actors in an ecological turnaround. more»
Paper
Failure or Opportunity? A Regional Analysis of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and – March 2, 2010 - From a sheer climate protection perspective, various experts claim that the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference has been a failure. Yet politically, it remains unclear whether Copenhagen can be called a failure, or whether it can be called a step forward. By the Heinrich Boell Foundation. February, 2010 more»